Archive for the ‘Language’ Category

Return of the Mkhitarist Fathers

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Mkhitarist Seminary, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / CNEWA One Magazine 2006
I’ve been a little quiet of late because of work and in particular an article and photos that I had to produce for One Magazine, a publication of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA). After viewing my Lightstalkers portfolio, the magazine’s […]

Mormons Blog on Armenia

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Lola Koundakjian of the Armenian Poetry Project and Life in Travel forwarded me a link to a new blog on Armenia this morning. Not so unexpected perhaps, but always interesting to take a look, this time the blog is from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — otherwise more commonly known as the […]

Black Garden Book Launch

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I’ve just come back from a quick drink with Tom de Waal, Caucasus Editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, before he had to shoot off for some reception, and IWPR’s Armenia Country Director, Seda Muradyan. Beforehand, Tom launched the Russian translation of his book on the Karabakh conflict, Black Garden: Armenia and […]

Notes from the Kazakh Armenian Blogosphere

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

With the Armenian President scheduled to make an official visit to Kazakhstan tomorrow, PanArmenian.net says that it will coincide with the second meeting of the Kazakh-Armenian Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation. However, Artyom at iArarat jokes that all might not be as it seems.
And so the rumor has it, that after meeting Premier George […]

ArmenPress Copyright Infringement

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Don’t you just love the local Armenian media? No sense of how to work properly at all, and once again my images have been taken off the Internet and used without permission or even a credit. Worse than that, the news item by ArmenPress is something that doesn’t reflect the reality behind the story.
YEZIDI […]

When English Works Wonders

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Nessuna at di cavoli e di re has another interesting post this week, but this time about the benefits of speaking a foreign language in Armenia. As is customary among local males, kerb crawling is the norm here, even when you don’t have a car. That is, many guys here think that there’s a good […]

Nationalism & Language in the South Caucasus

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

While relaxing in The Club last night with some friends, Nessuna rang and said she was with a German friend. Half an hour later the two joined us before we all set off to Cactus to watch the German-Portugal match. Nessuna’s friend was working as an intern with a major international organization in Armenia, but […]