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...general as well as its traditional audience of Irish and Irish-American moviegoers, hoping that viewers will be drawn to the festival’s unique cultural spin on cinema. Flynn credits Boston as particularly open to cultural festivals, citing local events like the French Film Festival and the Armenian Film Festival...
Arguing that new state curriculum guidelines on the Armenian genocide deprive students of the complete historical picture, two local teachers and a high school student have signed on as plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Education.The historical account in question is a two-year span during World War I in which anywhere from 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians were deported by the Turkish government and killed or allowed to die. While these events are generally accepted as historical fact, the particulars are controversial.The Turkish government has argued that the deaths were a result of ethnic...
...headscarves were banned from all public buildings and cultural life in general. Just a couple of years ago, Prime Minister Erdogan’s wife was banned from public events because she wore headscarves. In a “Modern Republic,” prosecution of the Armenian genocide perpetrators was abruptly discontinued. In a “democracy,” hawkish military coups intervened thrice in less than 50 years every time constituents voted against laiklik (Kemal’s policies of absolute secularism), each time proclaiming the creation of a “guided democracy...
...America’s power, Walt charts the ways other countries deal with American primacy. From North Korea’s nuclear “blackmail,” to the 2001 “Friendship Pact” between Russia and China, to the influential Israeli, Indian and Armenian lobbies in Washington, other states have found many ways to undermine or take advantage of America’s immense power. Walt’s reasons for advocating a more restrained American foreign policy are purely pragmatic. America will be able to maintain its primacy longer if it can convince...
...Ensemble members, including Silk Road founder Yo-Yo Ma ’76, were playing with five Harvard students they had met only days earlier. An Armenian artist drew improvised images to accompany the music and projected them onto a huge screen. Few, if any, of the listeners had ever heard a song with string parts for a traditional Persian kamancheh...