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	<title>IANYAN Magazine &#187; Culture Vulture</title>
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		<title>MidNight FistFight: Exploring the World of Armenian Zhamos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the underbelly of Armenian culture, lies the &#8220;zhamo,&#8221; a meeting between men set up to settle differences, but one that&#8217;s expected to erupt in violence instead. MidNight FistFight, a  new short film produced and directed by Robert Nazar Arjoyan and co-written with David Lafian, aims to explore this &#8220;Armenian version of an English duel&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographing Turkey&#8217;s Cultural Heritage: Aydin Cetinbostanoglu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in 1954 in Izmir Turkey, photographer Aydin Cetinbostanoglu has been documenting Turkey&#8217;s Gypsy, Alevi, Jewish, Christian Arab and Armenian communities for years, forming relationships, building trust and as a result gaining exclusive access to cultural intricacies that have for the most part remained allusive to outsiders. Hoping to break down cultural barriers, Cetinbostanoglu concentrated [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimming to Chicago: Novel Features Gay Armenian-American Teen</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/swimming-to-chicago-novel-features-gay-armenian-american-teen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Already recognized by the American Library Association as an outstanding novel for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer and Transgendered (LGBQT)  children and teens, author David-Matthew Barnes&#8217; second young adult novel, &#8220;Swimming to Chicago,&#8221; is making waves. Centering around Armenian-American teen Alex Bainbridge, the novel details his struggles to cope with his mother&#8217;s suicide, his own emerging [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>iTetr Armenian Keyboard App Releases Update</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/itetr-armenian-keyboard-app-releases-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Vulture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenian apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenian iphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenian language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[iTetr, an Armenian keyboard app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch has released an update, fixing minor bugs, while improving general interface design as well as Facebook integration, allowing you to post to the social media network instantly. Previous customers can download the update for free, said a press release from U.S-based app workshop [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In Cambodia, Emerging Artist Memorializes Genocide</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/in-cambodia-emerging-artist-memorializes-genocide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis Krikorian]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Melting Pot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cambodian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the death of painter and survivor of the S 21 prison camp Vann Nath in early September, a new generation embodied by designer and painter Em Riem is taking over. Phnom Penh may be Cambodia&#8217;s cultural center, but decades of civil war and a regime that claimed the lives of millions left the capital [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>iTetr, Armenian Keyboard App is Released for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 05:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Contributor]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much to the delight of fans wanting to communicate in Armenian on their iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, U.S-based app workshop FunCraft has released the iTetr Armenian Keyboard, available for download on iTunes for $1.99. Designed in a style reminiscent of Soviet Armenian copy books, iTetr allows users to write in Armenian for texting, tweeting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Elle Turkey’s Fashion Faux Pas Stirs Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/elle-turkeys-fashion-faux-pas-stirs-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ianyanmag.com/elle-turkeys-fashion-faux-pas-stirs-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ancient armenia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[city of 1001 churches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elle Turkey&#8217;s December editorial spread in which models Ana Zalewska and Karolin Machova prance through and pose in the now ruined and abandoned Armenian city of Ani has been met with criticism from Armenians angry at the use of the 5th century medieval capital whose population was slaughtered by Seljuk Turks and now has been [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The 105-year-old Postcard Mystery: Armenian or Not?</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-105-year-old-postcard-mystery-armenian-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-105-year-old-postcard-mystery-armenian-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[armenian community of ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenian language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenian script]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenians in lviv]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling all linguists! A user in the community weblog Metafilter has run into a possibly Armenian-related conundrum. &#8220;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&#8217;m guessing from the stamp) the end [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Khachkar: The Cornerstone of Armenian Symbolism</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-khachkar-the-cornerstone-of-armenian-symbolism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-khachkar-the-cornerstone-of-armenian-symbolism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley Killough]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[armenian art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenian christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenian crosses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenian symbolism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[khachkar maker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With its intricate carvings and detailed designs, the khachkar, or cross-stone, has been an Armenian symbol for centuries. The cross-bearing rocks can be found throughout the country, erected in graveyards or engraved in church walls or standing freely outside of homes or monuments. They represent Armenia’s special history as being the first Christian nation, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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