This year the Telethon for ARS Armenian Private school was broadcast on Feb 25th and yesterday March 4th, on Armenian T.V program of Toronto. This is a yearly program to raise funds for the school. The Telethon is a major undertaking and involves hundreds of dedicated parents and volunteers who spent hours and hours of… Continue reading ARS School Telethon. (Part 1)

Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), has launched a nation wide on line letter writing and calling campaign asking Armenians in USA to join the campaign by writing and calling to their U.S representatives to urge President Trump to recognize the Armenian Genocide. At the end of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Year in 2015, the… Continue reading Here we go again.

February 16 is the deadline for Political Parties (Parties) to present their list of candidates for the next parliamentary elections which is only seven days away. So far non of the Parties has done so. With the new electoral code, basically, voters elect Parties and not candidates. Party leadership and “back room boys”select and appoint… Continue reading Parliamentary Elections in Armenia.

The heading of this monologue is the title of a conference that took place at USC’ Institute of Armenian Studies in L.A. on January 29. It was on the internet and I watched it live on my computer. The conference was  organized to discuss “examples of functional and dysfunctional governance and electoral politics of Armenia”.… Continue reading Celebrity Diplomacy

On January 22, I attended the Remembrance Day gathering of the tenth anniversary of Hrant Dink murder, at the Armenian Community Center (ACC) in Toronto. The murder took place in front of  Agos newspaper office in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 19. 2007. Hrant Dink was the founder and editor of the bilingual (Armenian and Turkish)… Continue reading Tenth Anniversary of Hrant Dink Murder

It was announced that the next parliamentary election in Armenia will be held on April 2, 2017. Although the official campaign starts on March 5, but Armenian news media is full of speculations and the political parties in Armenia are gearing for an active campaign. This parliamentary election will be the first under the new… Continue reading Parliamentary Elections in Armenia

It has been a year since I started this Monologues. First my thanks goes to my ten year old grand daughter Hoqi Jan Հոգի ճան  Teni Թենի Mouchian, who about two years ago asked me to write down many of the stories that I was telling her about my childhood in Kessab Syria where I… Continue reading A brief review of the past Monologues

The heading of this monologue is part of a quote attributed to the president of Armenia Serj Sargsyan. I read it in News.am that had quoted it from another Armenian news paper Zhamanak. Here is the quote that was supposedly expressed by the president within “narrow circle”. It reads. “He complained that Karen Karapetyan is… Continue reading “Real changes are becoming fuzzy”

From November 16 to 20, I attended a few movies at the eleventh Pomegranate (POM) Film Festival in Toronto. The four-day program included 38 films from 14 countries. One of the movies I attended was titled “Temple of lights” Տաճառ Լուսոյ. It was 68 minute documentary on Melkonian Educational Institution (Melkonian) Մելգոնեան Կրթական Հաստատութիւն (Մելգոնեան)… Continue reading Melkonian Educational Institution

Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) had its sixteenth Party convention on November 26. It was attended by about 1800 delegates and 200 invited guests. Among the invitees were representatives of about 10 minor political Party(s) that have no representation in the National Assembly (Parliament), but there were no representatives of the Party(s) represented in the… Continue reading Party Convention or Coronation?