The Armenian Weekly

IALA, Mizna and AAWW present the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Can storytelling save us?

Mizna and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) present the Sarkisian Workshop Series 2026: Can Storytelling Save Us?  ...
NPR

Why Writing The Word 'Freedom' Is More Powerful Than Typing It

Under a little white tent at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., an artist named Ruben Malayan is teaching kids and visitors how to write the letter "A" in Armenian calligraphy.
Iowa City Press-Citizen

UI program to help bridge Turkey-Armenia relations

For the past seven summers, the University of Iowa's Between the Lines programs has been bringing high school-age writers from Russia and Arabic-speaking nations to Iowa City for a two-week, ...
insider.si.edu

Writing Is Memory

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. “When I write, I am flying,” says Armenian calligrapher Ruben Malayan. Pen poised on paper, eyes intent, he breathes as if aligning his body with ...
Salon

Creating the voices of the Armenian genocide, 100 years later: “Writing this book was my way of dealing with trans-generational trauma”

Some writers are called to fiction despite whatever more practical paths they had taken before the obsession with words and story took over their lives. Aline Ohanesian is one of these. In the midst ...