About

Ianyan magazine is  your premiere independent Armenian publication. Not affiliated with any political, religious or governmental group, we aim to bring you what so many Armenian publications have failed to do: objective news, features and storytelling that you can appreciate.

This is not your medzbaba’s newspaper. There is no propaganda here. We not only seek the truth and report it, we bring you Armenian news (and news from the South Caucasus) from around the world, for both young and old generations and for your non-Armenian friends as well.

For more about our background, listen to our interview with Global Voices.

Ianyan was named simply for the fact that no matter where you go in the world, Armenians can be identified by the last three letters of their last name. We hope to connect stories with readers using these six letters, just like our last names have for hundreds of years.

Staff

Liana Aghajanian

Editor-in-Chief

Born in Iran and raised in Los Angeles, Liana is a journalist who has written for the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader, both part of Times Community News, Paste, Ararat magazine and Spot.us. She holds a B.A. in journalism from California State University Northridge and founded ianyan magazine in early 2009. While also working full-time as an editor with publishers such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Hearst, Liana is pursuing investigative, feature and foreign reporting. She likes her tea without sugar, but her dolma with lots of yogurt.

Keegam Shamlian

Graphic Design

Born and raised in London, Keegam holds a B.A. in Graphic Design from Middlesex University. He recently designed a series of music posters that have been critically acclaimed. Keegam just launched “Ara the Rat,” an Armenian-themed t-shirt line that ranges from self-deprecating to mildly patriotic. He loves watermelons and loves scouring for vintage slides at flea markets.

Nathalie Nourian

Copy Editor, Contributing Writer

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Nathalie is a full-time publicist and copy editing enthusiast who holds a B.A. in Public Relations from California State University Los Angeles. She credits her Lebanese-Armenian and Iranian-Armenian roots for helping her master both dialects and enjoys a good knefeh as well as delicious ghormeh sabzi.

Ashley Killough

Contributing Writer

A native of Texas, Ashley Killough is a journalist and recent Fulbright fellow who spent 10 months in Armenia where she conducted research on new and social media and filed multimedia reports for ianyan. She has written for Eurasia Daily Monitor and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. She blogs about her experiences in Armenia at www.ashleykillough.com and is currently a student at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Robert Fullam

Contributing Writer

Robert Fullam is a Political Science student at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. He is interested in diaspora and identity politics, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and anthropology. He enjoys pumpkin pie, kalamata olives and ginger ale and explores his own cultural identity through many of the article he contributes.

Avo John Kambourian

Contributing Writer

Part photographer, part journalist, and part filmmaker, Avo has only been writing in recent years. He thinks of journalism as a report on the real and not just the observed. He loves photography for presenting the details of something seen in an instant, in a state that can be observed possibly forever. He also dreams in film making for its expressing of everything we feel in whichever way it needs to be presented.