Armen aroyan biography of alberta

They were a living example of what became my mother’s coda for me and my two sisters: a family is like a hand — it doesn’t work well, unless all fingers are well and functioning together.

If someone is ailing then you have to make them well if you hope to survive.

And written large, that looked to have been the message that defined all Armenians. This sense of brotherhood, of taking care of your neighbor seemed to be a common theme for us.

Blind Nuri had been “discovered” by Armen Aroyan in on his first visit to his own grandfather's village of Jibin, the visit that launched a thousand.

Summary: "The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished.

In , Alberta,⁠3 shepherded by Armen Aroyan, made a pilgrimage to Bitias, one of the six villages of Musa Dagh (''), the mountain of villages made.

You have probably heard of Armen Aroyan, a prominent member of the Southern California Armenian community.

Armen, as this book shows, made Nancy's and thousands of others' “homecomings” possible.

Early on in my career as a reporter for the Globe, I would often be asked by callers in Boston — a most tribal city! — what nationality was Kurkjian, and when I told them I was Armenian, invariably I would get a response like this.

“Of course, Armenian. The landlord of our tenement was Armenian, and I remember my parents saying that more than a few times when times were rough, he let us go a month without paying our rent.”

Or: “My father’s surgeon was Armenian, and despite advanced cancer, he kept him