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		<title>Op-Ed: Finding a New Way of Remembering Armenian Genocide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, some people were putting together signs to hold outside of consulates or writing letters or calling their state or Congressional leaders while some of us congregated around monuments outside of churches to remember the lives lost almost a century ago. What is clear however is that Armenian [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Store, and Life Full of Treasure: Boston&#8217;s Pat Bartevian</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Fullam]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wave of stale heat hit me hard. It was reminiscent of my attic or my grandparent’s house, something quite fitting given the fact that many of the items in the store looked like they came from those exact places. Jewelry lined the display cases running with gems and birthstones of every shade surrounded by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great (Armenian) Lent: Lessons Learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Fullam]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some people the Lenten season passes without much thought, ending on Easter with family and friends and people move on, go and mark the next holiday on their calendar but I’ve spent the past week or so mulling over what I’ve learned in this grand experiment of mine. If you were not aware, I [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great (Armenian) Lent: Dining Out and Deconstructing the Garden of Eden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Fullam]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part in a series on the Lenten Journey, a 40 day fasting period before Easter observed by several Christian denominations, including the Armenian Apostolic Church. See the first part here.  Another week of the Great Lent has passed, leaving it’s trials and tribulations for me in its wake. One of the big [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great (Armenian) Lent: An Attempt to Abstain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Fullam]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As cameras followed revelers at Brazil’s Carnival or New Orleans’ Mardi Gras, Lent in the Armenian Apostolic Church made a quiet entrance this past Monday. The next month and a half wouldn’t be too different from the last but this year I plan on observing the Great Lent. It’s accurate to say that I’m a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Multicultural Notes on Armenian Identity: Half, Yet Whole</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Fullam]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY ROBERT FULLAM Being born half-Armenian has been one of the most rewarding parts of my life, but it&#8217;s also one that I&#8217;ve had to reconcile with. For those of us who have chosen to embrace our Armenian identities, trying to juggle it with either another ethnicity or a wider national identity has at times been [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Odar: The Omission of Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[peace in the south caucasus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 a culturally endearing word taken out [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Appreciating Odds and Ends in Armenian Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/appreciating-odds-and-ends-in-armenian-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Fullam]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There long has been a phenomenon that not just myself, but countless other Armenians have taken note of, those ubiquitous floral patterned dresses that older Armenian women seem to wear. Whether they are at the store, at a church bazaar, a kef or anywhere else, they wear these things all the time! I have a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Faces and Facets of Armenian Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-faces-and-facets-of-armenian-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Fullam]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[armenian christianity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Well, you don&#8217;t look Armenian.&#8221; It’s one of those phrases that you might hear occasionally but for some Armenians, they’re told they don’t “look Armenian” all the time. The issue of looking Armenian opens up certain facets of Armenian identity, one of them being the subject of race. The night before Armenian Christmas, my mother [&#8230;]]]></description>
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