http://www.ianyanmag.com an independent Armenian news magazine Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:26:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_3020" align="alignnone" width="596" caption="Creative Commons/ by Gibson Claire McGuire Regester"][/caption] While it dates back thousands of years, with notable authors including Hovaness Toumanyan and Gostan Zarian, Armenian literature has largely remained overlooked by the international community, but that might be changing in 2012, when Armenia's capital city Yerevan will hold ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2895 Calling all linguists! A user in the community weblog Metafilter has run into a possibly Armenian-related conundrum. "I just bought a postcard written in what looks like Armenian sent from what is now Lviv to what is now Chernivtsi (in what is now Ukraine), sometime between 1905 and (I'm guessing from ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2998 The word odar is roughly translated as “stranger”, “non-Armenian” or “other”, similar to the use of the word goy or goyim, a word of Yiddish and Hebrew origin which is used to describe non-Jews. Both these words border ethnocentricity sit on the edge of insulting and ethnocentric or are ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2768 Boston.com's the Big Picture is one of the most awe-inspiring and breathtaking  photo series on the web. So when the site recently publishing an amazing look at Russia in color, a century ago, by 19th century photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, we were tempted to do our own reoccurring photo show. ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2951 This is a first in the series called "Home and Homeland," an exploration into the Armenian Diaspora's connection (or sometimes lack thereof) with Armenia, repatriation, identity, culture and more. [caption id="attachment_2933" align="alignnone" width="598" caption="The author on his journey in Armenia/ © Avo John Kambourian"][/caption] What makes someone leave home, walk away ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2927 "Overheard on the Net" has been on a mysterious hiatus for some time, but don't worry, it's back, with more than enough virtual eavesdropping to keep you satisfied. I guess the Twitterverse got together these last few weeks and decided unanimously to direct their grievances towards Armenian women. Very odd.  ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2870 [caption id="attachment_2902" align="alignright" width="407" caption="fruit is an essential part of raw vegansim, a diet followed by 90-year-old ex-POW Vaghe Danielyan of Armenia/by Liana Aghajanian"][/caption] He's an ex-prisoner of war, hasn't seen a doctor in 40 years and recently crossed over to his 90s, but raw vegan Vaghe Danielyan is as strong ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2899 For Armenians, eating isn't just about satisfying hunger pains. It is so much more. Where it's at weddings, funerals or even just a Friday night dinner, to Armenians, food is an essence of their being, of their culture and a big majority of what life is all about: to share a mouth ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2844 [caption id="attachment_2849" align="alignright" width="361" caption="Silence, Oil on panel, Private Collection. Courtesy Ana Bagayan"][/caption] Los Angeles-based artist Ana Bagayan's detailed and delectable illustrations evoke more emotion than meets the eye. From her haunting portraits of soul searching girls to her surreal depictions of animals, Bagayan,  who was born in Armenia and  moved ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2850 [caption id="attachment_2833" align="alignnone" width="606" caption="a screencap of the front page of the online version of the Glendale News-Press, now in Armenian"][/caption] With Armenians making up almost 30 percent of Glendale's population according to the 2000 U.S. Census, many of them recent immigrants, Times Community Editor Dan Evans wanted to offer something ... http://www.ianyanmag.com/?p=2829