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		<title>How the &#8220;Daredevils of Sassoun&#8221; are Spinning an Armenian Folktale into Modern Reality: 2016 Yerevan Hostage Crisis and Protests</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/how-the-daredevils-of-sassoun-are-spinning-an-armenian-folktale-into-modern-reality-2016-yerevan-hostage-crisis-and-protests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2016 02:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early morning hours of July 17 in the Erebuni district of Armenia’s capital Yerevan, an armed group took over a police station, holding the officers hostage. Soon after, a grainy video shot by phone appeared on Facebook. The camera gave a real-time, 2-minute glimpse into a certain kind of chaos that was about to unfold in the country.]]></description>
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		<title>Glimpses of Ararat from the Other Side: A Turk in Armenia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ertugrul Yilmaz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It began four years ago. After another April 24th, I decided to find an Armenian friend online to understand how the other side perceives the Armenian Genocide. It was just after I watched the Armenian Genocide commemoration in Yerevan. I talked about the “Armenian problem” as it is referred to in Turkey with an Armenian who [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Dust: How an Ongoing Construction Boom Is Destroying Yerevan’s Architectural Heritage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;  One stifling summer afternoon last year in Kond, the sole historic district left in Armenia’s capital Yerevan, a group of men tending to a neighbor’s garden took a break as the sun began its descent, and pointed towards the sky. “Our Republic Square has a beautiful clock,” one said before going down a set of steep, old, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Mr. Erdogan: An Open Letter From the Descendent of an Armenian Genocide Survivor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aram Margarian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Erdogan, In 50 days it will be 100 years since the Armenian Genocide began. What then happened cannot be simply explained as a war. What then happened was not a series of provincial skirmishes. What then happened was not the unfortunate death of 1.5 million people through starvation and disease. No, Mr. Erdogan. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Moravian Fusion: Aram Bajakian’s Dálava Masters Art of New Avant Garde</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Semerdjian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is this idea of the way things are, and there is this other idea that things could be different. This is certainly true for free jazz, born amidst mid-20th century dissatisfaction with the conventions of bop and swing. “Free” playing in all of its embodiments is, at heart, a pure punk instinct. The art [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitting Still: Reflections on Armenian Portrait Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilda Davidian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in 2008 that I first came across a catalogue titled Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography by artists Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari. The project brought together different kinds of portraits from the Arab Image Foundation’s archive taken in the Middle East during the mid-20th century. Portrait studio photography is deeply satisfying to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of Ali Baba: The Incredible Story of Armenian Genocide Survivor &amp; World Wrestling Champ Harry Ekizian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Liana Aghajanian Some months after the long, treacherous deportations began, Mary Ekizian lost her husband Krikor to the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. Driven to madness, she would often attempt to flee the caves she and her children hid in to escape detection from Turkish guards. Every night her son Harry would wrap her [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lost Map on the Tramway in Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Avedis Hadjian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Who are you? This is Turkey. Do you know what Turkey is?” a man asked me, his thick glasses magnifying the fear in his eyes. He belonged to the little-known Armenian Gypsy community, in the Kurtuluş district of Istanbul. I was at a teahouse where Armenian Gypsy men usually gathered, trying to interview them. And [&#8230;]]]></description>
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