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Claude Mutafian: “We should leave the Armenian ghetto”

The name of Claude Mutafian, historian and expert in medieval Armenian history, is inseparably linked to the ancient Armenian kingdom of Cilicia. In September, Mutafian will come to Russia to take part in a conference organized by the Moscow State University in cooperation with Foundation for development and support of Armenian Studies "ANIV", titled “Armenian Diaspora and Armenian-Russian Relations: History and Modernity.” We spoke with Claude about Armenian heritage and Armenian treasures exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
 
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Raymond Kévorkian: “Collaboration is very important”

Raymond Kévorkian is a historian, a scholar of the Armenian Genocide, former director of the Nubarian Library in Paris and the author of numerous works on the past and present of Armenia. He is taking part in a conference titled “Armenian Diaspora and Armenian-Russian Relations: History and Modernity,” organized by Moscow State University in cooperation with Foundation for development and support of Armenian Studies "ANIV" on September 14 and 15, 2016.
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Thinking Globally

Every winter, Foreign Policy magazine selects 100 people whose ideas and projects have changed the world in the outgoing year for its “Global Thinkers” Award. The chosen ones are then featured in a special issue of the magazine. This year photographers Ara Oshagan, Levon Parian and architect Vahagn Thomasian have been selected in the “Artists" category for their project iwitness.

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A Note of Salt

The 14th Istanbul Biennale, curated by the renowned Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the author of the latest “Documenta,” has taken both European and Asian Istanbul, from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, by storm. In the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian theme became one of the exhivition’s core motives. The Armenian projects were supported by the Dilijan Art Initiative, a fund sponsored by Ruben Vardanyan and his wife Veronika Zonabend.

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Children of Balt

By Emilia Erbetta
 
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Sesede Terziyan: Melancholy and Justice

Interview by Irina Lamp
 
Sesede Terziyan was born in 1981 in the small coastal town of Nordenham in Germany. She studied drama at the Ernst Busch College of Acting in Berlin. She was first cast at the German Theater Berlin and the Maxim Gorki Theater. In 2005, she became co-founder of the Berlin-based off-theater Eigenreich. In 2010 she starred in Nurkan Erpulat's plays “Lö Bal Almanya” and “Verrücktes Blut” (“Crazy Blood”). In 2011 the Theater heute (Theater Today) magazine nominated her actress of the year.
 
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Moving Memories

Walt Disney once said that animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment that can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
For four friends who met at the Animation Department of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia, animation is more than just an occupation – it’s a dream come true.

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Portrait of an Artist: Silvina Der-Meguerditchian

By Irina Lamp
 
Heavy traffic in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg gradually dies down at nightfall. Large studio windows reflect an image of a 40-year-old woman, eyes focused on her computer screen. 
 
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Armenian Blood, Emotional Baggage

By Anna Arutunyan
 
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Batteries Included

By Artyom Yerkanyan

Famous American writer Chris Bohjalian has dropped the idea of writing a sequel to his worldwide best-selling novel “The Sandcastle Girls.” He believes that his book about the Armenian Genocide has accomplished its mission, so he now wants to write about Armenian revival, not the Armenian tragedy. 

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