Like many Armenian families, the roots of the Manoukians go back to historical Western Armenia and Eastern Armenia “Manok” in Armenian means a child or a young man The surname Manukyan means “son of Manuk,” following the Armenian naming tradition…
The Mazloumian family, originally from Western Armenia, found themselves at a historical crossroads during one of the region’s most turbulent periods. Like many Armenians fleeing the horrors of the Ottoman Empire, they sought refuge in the Middle East, with many…
A Shakespeare Center at the Institute of Arts was established in Yerevan, Armenia, not long after England established the Shakespeare Foundation. Since the 1850s, there have been at least 50 Shakespearean drama translators, but Hovaness Massehian (1864–1922), a career diplomat…
Ancient religious rituals in which professional gusans (troubadours) were hired to sing lengthy verses praising the nobleman’s ancestors gave rise to the Armenian Theatre in Ancient Greece. Both katakagusan (comedians) and voghbergus (lamentation or tragedy singers) performed at festive ceremonies…
Samson, a small seaside town and seaport in North Turkey’s Trabzon province, is where Simon Samsonian (1912–2003) was born. It had about 15,000 residents in 1915, of whom about a third were Armenians. The rests were Greeks and Turks…
He is an Egyptian–Armenian contemporary artist and sculptor, born to Armenian parents living in Cairo, Egypt, where he was influenced daily by the two ancient cultures. The two heritages created in him a continuous reevaluation of values, which led…
Chant Avedissian is an Egyptian artist with Armenian roots-his grandparents fled from Izmir, Turkey during World War I-was born on 24 November 1951 in Boulaq Cairo. He was known for his stenciled Pop Art portraits of famous Egyptians of the…
Baruyr Bardizbanian (1887-1932), was born in Istanbul, and studied architecture and painting in its School of Fine Arts, probably between 1902 and 1907 In 1923, Bardizbanian came to Egypt according to doctors’ advice because of its mild and dry climate…
Anna Boghiguian is one of the leading contemporary Egyptian-Canadian artists of Armenian origin. Born in Egypt to an Armenian family, she studied economics and political science in 1969 at the American University in Cairo, while simultaneously taking painting classes with…
Armenia is one of the world’s most ancient nations, dating back more than three millennia as well as its literature. It was the crossroad, homeland of many eastern and western ancient cultures, many religions that already contained mythologies affected its…