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Khachkars
Our week in Gyumri is behind us. We've since visited the Haghpat and Sanahin monasteries in Lori Marz. We continued onto the town of...
Jul 25, 20101 min read
FAR Explores Medical Education Opportunity in Nagorno-Karabagh.
Dr. Hambartsum Simonyan, coordinator of FAR’s health programs, and Yerevan State Medical University Vice Rector Dr. Gevorg Yaghjyan, made...
Jul 25, 20101 min read
FAR's Intern(s) in Armenia - Samantha - Farewell.
The cliché must be true… my travels truly have changed me and Armenia will always be a part of my life. At the same time I think I left a...
Jul 23, 20102 min read
The Stepanavan District in Armenia Introduces New Travel Guide.
The Stepanavan District in Armenia introduces its new Travel Guide to develop tourism in this area. The project has been made possible...
Jul 22, 20101 min read
Vernissage.
Vernissage is an open air market near Yerevan's Republic Square. It's open for business on Saturday and Sunday. ASP-ers spent their last...
Jul 22, 20101 min read
Lilit Yeghiazarian Meets ANSEF Recipients.
On July 20, Lilit Yeghiazarian, PhD and ANSEF Research Council member, met with current and former ANSEF grant winners at FAR’s Yerevan...
Jul 22, 20101 min read
Golden Apricot’s Harvest.
The Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan lasted for seven days. Initially, about 500 applications were submitted, but...
Jul 22, 20101 min read
Lake Sevan.
Nothing on this three-week trip has topped the excitement of climbing the mountains around Lake Sevan. Together our group scaled the...
Jul 21, 20101 min read
Aram Khachaturian & The Rolling Stones.
For years I’ve known that our personal interests have paths that will often never cross. Sometimes, however, they do. I admit it. I am...
Jul 21, 20101 min read
FAR Secures Funding for School Renovations.
FAR recently secured a $25,000 grant from the Open Society Institute, which will help the organization’s efforts to rehabilitate the...
Jul 21, 20101 min read
FAR Board Meeting Held.
Meeting at the Diocesan Center on Wednesday, July 21, the Fund for Armenian Relief Board of Directors discussed the organization’s...
Jul 21, 20102 min read
New Site Provides Access to Armenian E-Books.
Via Zohrab Center's Blog Dr. Mikael Nichanian of the Bibiothèque Nationale de France-Paris has created a new site, haybook.wordpress.com,...
Jul 20, 20101 min read
Dispatches From Armenia - Beautiful Nagorno Karabagh.
Our second day in Karabagh, or Artsakh, as it's also known. After exploring Stepanakert’s streets and markets, and even being interviewed...
Jul 20, 20101 min read
Visit to Khor Virab.
On July 18, we visited Khor Virab, the pit where St. Gregory resided for 13 years before healing King Drtad through prayer. Khor Virab...
Jul 20, 20102 min read
Armine Zambak establishes the FAR Garabed and Armine Zambak Scholarship Fund.
The Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) is proud to announce the establishment of an endowment fund to support the education of a new...
Jul 20, 20101 min read
Dispatches From Armenia - Entering Nagorno Karabakh.
After traveling through liberated territory from Armenia to the entrance to Nagorno-Karabagh, we arrived in Shushi. The devastation from...
Jul 20, 20101 min read
The 2010 ACYOA Armenia Service Program Day 9 – Temporary Shelters in Gyumri.
The earthquake that struck Armenia in 1988 left 25,000 people dead, and thousands homeless. Today, 22 years after the disaster, many...
Jul 19, 20102 min read
CME Mentors Look Forward.
Program trainers for FAR’s Continuing Medical Education Program met with staff on July 9 to review program statistics, achievements,...
Jul 19, 20101 min read
Find a Middle Ground: Armenian Church and Getty Should Work Together.
Hat Tip: Liana Aghajanian via @writepudding on Twitter Seven illustrated pages ripped out of a medieval Gospels manuscript: Who owns...
Jul 19, 20101 min read
FAR's Intern(s) in Armenia - Samantha - Nagorno Karabakh.
I’m back in Yerevan for the final time before flying back home to America. It’s bittersweet to return for a third time, as this city is...
Jul 19, 20101 min read
Golden Apricot Wrap-Up.
I was thankfully able to see two more films that were competing at the Golden Apricot Film Festival during the weekend. Both of them were...
Jul 19, 20101 min read
Dispatches From Armenia - A Perfect Day.
We stood in the sun, in the shadow of Ararat, and descended vertically into the pit of st. Gregory the illuminator at Khor Virap...
Jul 18, 20101 min read
Grad Students Present Final Projects.
Fourteen GTech graduates presented their final theses to the institute’s board members, advisors, and other students last week. The...
Jul 18, 20101 min read
Golden Apricot Update.
As is the case every year, due to my daytime work schedule I am able to see films being shown at the seventh annual Golden Apricot...
Jul 18, 20101 min read
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