Word: armenia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marcio Botelho, 27, and his life a case study in the game gone global. Botelho, nicknamed Gaucho after former Brazilian national-team player Renato Gaucho, is one out of some 850 Brazilians professionally chasing football outside their homeland. These days his friends play for clubs in places like Azerbaijan, Armenia and Vietnam. "How was it today?" I ask as Gaucho steps out of the dressing room in a white turtleneck and a brown winter coat. He rolls his deep brown eyes. Then, his handsomely chiseled features warm up in disarming laughter. "I try. I give all myself...
...nearly 2,000 years, the rich and fertile area of western Asia known as Armenia proved hospitable to man and beast, as well as to a remarkable civilization. Then in 1915 the Turks massacred more than a million Armenians, leaving their historic lands desolate and sending the survivors fleeing abroad. The splendidly illustrated The Armenians (Rizzoli; 288 pages; $75) aims to restore to view some of the beauty of this brutally wounded culture. Various Armenian and Italian scholars have contributed chapters on the arts, history, religion and literature...
...said. "I can travel now!" And so you did, commuting between America , Europe , Turkey and Armenia , bridging gaps that people on all sides took for granted. Always a maverick, you never just gave your audience what they wanted to hear. The myriad prejudices and generalizations in the Armenian diaspora about Turkey and the Turks frustrated you. "Yes, there are bigoted Turks," you would say, "but there also countless progressive, open-minded ones, and they are my friends, brothers and sisters...
...France has absorbed waves of immigrants, from Russia, Poland and Armenia, to name a few countries. Those newcomers came from a broad spectrum of the economic and political landscape, yet by the second or third generation most of them had assimilated into the French population. Why is that not happening with the Muslim community? Muslims were welcomed and provided with government assistance they would never have received in their own Islamic countries. Although it is incumbent on governments to provide adequate education and job opportunities to minorities, it is also the responsibility of Muslim communities embedded in the Western world...
...famine caused by the war, and not because of an “intent to destroy...a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group,” which is the United Nations’ definition of genocide.The Massachusetts curriculum used to include some materials that depicted the events in Armenia as genocide and some that did not characterize it as such. However, the latter documents have been removed from the curriculum.The lawsuit filed last Wednesday maintains that the Massachusetts Department of Education, and its commissioner, David P. Driscoll, violated students’ First Amendment rights when it removed the materials arguing...