I've got a whole album of traditional Armenian patterns and somehow never used it.

-🖤🧡Super excited to reveal- my Temporary Tattoos based off of my hand carved Linoprint designs!!🧡🖤-

Armenian Manuscripts and Printed Books Archive

Amin al-Husseini docu: part 4

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Last

A bit of background on Edy Mor:

He published an autobiography in 2016, titled (in Hebrew) One Thousand Nights and A Day: Farhud and Zionism in Baghdad.

In his book, he recounts the history of his family, which lived in an Iranian city called Urmia, where in 1915 the Ottoman Empire (Turks) massacred the local Armenian minority (as part of the Armenian genocide), as well as the small Jewish community of just 1,000 people. Most were killed, a lot of Jewish property was looted, women and girls were raped. The survivors fled to Iraq, with almost no money or property, and met with a lot of animosity from the locals, who didn't like the newly arrived "immigrants." Edy's parents were the kids from two neighboring Jewish families in Urmia, who had survived and fled to Iraq together.

Edy was 5 years old in 1941. He recalls the unrest in Baghdad even before the Farhud (Arab violent riots against the local Iraqi Jews, mainly in Baghdad, inspired by antisemitic propaganda from the Nazis and the Mufti) started. Jewish homes were marked with red paint in the shape of a hand print. The Newspaper he mentions in the above clip, which published daily Hitler's antisemitic manifesto and so-called autobiography Mein Kampf, is Al-Aalem Al-Arabi, a newspaper purchased by the Mufti thanks to Nazi financial aid. In reaction to the unrest, Edy's parents decided to store all of their merchandise in their home, since they thought once the violence would break out, it would be aimed at Jewish owned shops, and they wanted to protect their livelihood. But when the Farhud started, on the even of the Jewish holiday of Shavu'ot, the mob targeted both Jewish shops and homes, and the family's property ended up being looted from their own living room. Edy shares how, when the riots began, he happened to be in a car with his family on their way home, and he saw how the Arabs stopped the car driving in front of him, pulled out its Jewish passengers, and slaughtered them right in front of his eyes. After surviving this massacre, Edy's already Zionist family became determined to get permission to leave Iraq for Israel. They made it here in 1950.

This is Edy with his father Ya'akov as a kid in Baghdad:

(also, just a small reminder that Jews are Middle Eastern, not white, no matter what our skin color looks like, and Edy is another example)

A bit of background on Ezra Yachin can be found with part 3.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

Saint Gregory of Narek

Doctor of the Church 

c.950 - c.1005 

Feast Day: February 27 (Roman Rite) October 13 (Armenian Rite)

Saint Gregory of Narek, the son of an Armenian Bishop, was raised and lived most of his life in the Monastery of Narekavank in Turkey, teaching, and writing. Gregory was a priest/monk, poet, theologian, mathematician, and scientist. He wrote the Encyclopedia of Prayer for all Nations, that’s considered a classic in Armenian literature. The Book of Lamentations, his masterpiece, was completed just before he died at age 90. Today he’s known as “the Watchful Angel in Human Form” because of the many miracles started with prayer. Pope Francis proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church in 2015

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

les mis translation experts: do you know if there’s an armenian translation of les mis currently in print? i would guess it would be under the name “Թշուառներ” or “T’shuarrner”

my family speaks it and i took a lot of time practicing it this year and im very confident in my skills. so i would give anything to read my favorite novel in a language that’s near and dear to me.

it’s spoken so rarely these days that i severely doubt there’s one, but if there’s any chance of there being one, i would love to hear about it. i would love to get a copy myself, and my les mis loving mom.

if someone can manage to find a copy, i presume it won’t ship to the us and is probably only available there. please still inform me because i do have family i can have ship it to me from there or just pick a copy up when i fly back over there in the near future.

just curious!

Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) One of the prominent Armenian-Canadian photographers famously known for his portrait photography.

“Humphrey Bogart” 1946

Photograph - gelatin silver print

35.5 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11")

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

[Humphrey Bogart (American actor, 25 Dec 1899 - 14 Jan 1957)]

Armenian calligraphy called Trchnagir (Bird letters)

Trchnagir is a type of script whose letters (mainly capital script) are images of birds . In the Armenian manuscripts of the Middle Ages, the readings began with bird-shaped (also animal, vegetable, geometric) letters. Later, bird writings were used in printed publications.

ARAM ALBAN (1883-1961) | Untitled (4), gelatine silver print, 1930s, Collection of the Lusadaran Armenian Photography Foundation, Yerevan.

Pomegranate season is over

Stats 2: Electric Boogaloo

Our 256 works are comprised of.... 132 paintings, 36 drawings / digital artworks / comics, 26 installation pieces, 20 sculptures, 11 buildings, 11 public artworks, 10 photographs, 4 prints, 3 cave arts, 2 textile arts, and 1 thing I classified as a collage instead of anything else!

More stats below!

Most popular city: New York, with 13 pieces, followed by Paris with 8, and Chicago is third with 7! Washington DC has 6, Florence, Madrid, and London all have 5, Philadelphia has 4, Dublin, Edinburgh, Mexico City each have three, and all the following cities have two: Boston, Cairo, Calgary, Cordoba, Helsinki, Houston, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Munich, Ottawa, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw

Most popular museum: somehow the Art Institute of Chicago has the most with 6 pieces! Followed by the Museum of Modern Art with 5 pieces! The Museo del Prado has 4, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has 3, and the Ateneum, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo Dolores Olmedo, National Gallery of Canada, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Britain, Tretyakov Gallery, and the Uffizi Gallery each have 2! In addition, the single works are spread out amongst 16 city level galleries (ie the Phoenix Art Museum), 5 state/provincial (ie Queensland Art Gallery), 25 national (ie National Gallery Prague), 8 museums named after benefactors (ie the Hirshhorn Museum), 7 museums dedicated to a specific artist (ie the Van Gogh Museum) and numerous other institutions! Churches, palaces, increasingly specific museums, museums that are named after their location rather than their governmental level... and of course a whole lot of private collections and pieces we were unable to find the location of!

Countries! 50 pieces are in the US! 13 in France! 12 in Spain! 7 in England, 6 in Canada and Italy, 5 in Russia, 4 in Ireland, Mexico, and Australia, 3 each in Germany, Austria, and Scotland, and 2 each in China, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Wales, Poland, Japan, Egypt, and India, and 1 each in Portugal, Ecuador, Thailand, Singapore, Belgium, Argentina, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Norway, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, and the Vatican!

Demographics! I revoked John Singer Sargents American status for these because he was born in Europe, and spent most of his life travelling around Europe. I tried my best to track down the correct numbers but honestly some of these are likely to be slightly off. I went with easily publicly available information like Wikipedia and where that failed the author's website. I also tracked people's birth countries in addition to where they lived / worked for most of their lives. Anyway! We have 74 pieces by American artists! 27 French, 22 English, 14 Russian, 13 Spanish, 11 Canadian, 9 Italian, 8 Chinese, 8 German, 6 Irish, 6 Polish, 6 Mexican, 5 Greek (four of those are Ancient Greece), 5 Ukrainian, 5 Japanese, 4 Australian, 4 Belgian, 4 Indian, 3 Serbian, 3 Armenian, 3 Dutch, 3 Austria, 3 Latvian, 3 Swedish, 2 each from Finland, Scotland, Malaysia, Cuba, the Czech Republic, and Norway, and one each from Israel (specifically), Portugal, Ecuador, Thailand, Switzerland, Denmark, Iran, Colombia, Chile, Estonia, and Egypt (albeit Ancient Egypt)

Including the one Israeli artist, we have 7 Jewish artists represented, as well as 4 Black, 6 Indigenous (one is half Kichwa, one is Sami, one is Haida, one is Ojibwe, and two are Australian Aboriginals. One of those is Kokatha and Nukunu, and the other one was a group project with eight artists who did the majority of the work, and 6 of those are from Erub Island but the articles did not specify further except that at least one of the eight is non-Indigenous), 1 Chicana, and 1 Asian-American (which I am specifying because I felt very stupid adding tallies to an Asian column when I already said there are 8 Chinese artists and 5 Japanese and 2 Malaysians and....). We also do have 16 artists that publicly identify as queer in some fashion! I have listed 9 works by gay men, 2 works by lesbians, and 5 that have chosen to use "queer" instead of other labels.

And on that note.... we have 155 works by men, 51 by women, and 2 by nonbinary artists!

Most represented artists! Frida Kahlo and René Magritte tied with four works each! Félix González-Torres, Francisco Goya, John Singer Sargent each have three! And the artists that have 2 artworks each are... Claude Monet, Dragan Bibin, Edmund Blair Leighton, Francisco de Zurbarán, Gustav Klimt, Holly Warburton, Hugo Simberg, Ilya Repin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Jacques-Louis David, Jenny Holzer, Louis Wain, Pablo Picasso, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Victo Ngai, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Leonardo da Vinci (although the second is debated attribution)! That means that 205 of the works are not by any of the above! Some have unknown artists (we've got THREE CAVE ARTS) but most are just... really varied!

And lastly, years painted (as sorted by year finished and not year started). Who else loves when something is listed as "13th century"?? Not me, that's who. This is going to be a lot of numbers, and there's no real way to make it more readable. so..... feel free to skip!

The oldest two submissions are from circa 40,000 years before present, and 30 to 32 thousand years before present! Six more artworks came to exist before 0 (CE or AD depending on who you're talking to), and 7 before 1000! 2 from the 1200s, 6 from the 1400s, 8 from the 1500s, 3 from the 1600s, and 5 from the 1700s! Several of those already listed were started in a previous ....age category (for instance, one has no specified date other than 7300 BC to 700 AD) but once we hit 1600, everything is usually finished in a relatively short timespan. 6 are from 1800-1850, 9 from 1850-1880, and the 1880s are extremely busy. 1 from 1881, 3 from 1882, 1 from 1883-1885, 5 from 1886, and two each from the next four years (1887-1890)! 6 from 1891-1895, and 5 from 1896-1900!

We've got 3 from 1901 or 1902, 4 from 1903, two each from 1906 and 1907, and one each from 1908 and 1909! 3 from 1910-1915, 3 from 1917, 2 from 1918 and one from 1919! 6 are from the Roaring Twenties, three of them specifically from 1928! 4 from 1931-1935, and only 3 from the latter half of the 30s! There's 3 from WWII, and 4 from 1946-1949, 5 from 1951-1954 but only 3 from '55-'59. 5 from the sixties, 7 spread out through the 70s, and 10 from the 80s, two each from 81, 82 and 84. The 90s have a lot of duplicate and triplicate years, totaling 20 overall! 11 are from 90-95, the other 9 are 96-99. 7 from 2001-2005, and 8 from 2006-2009. 9 from 2010-2014, 3 from 2015, 6 from 2016, 5 from 2017, 1 from 2018, 3 from 2019, 5 from 2020, 1 from 2021, 4 from 2022, 11 from 2023, and 3 ongoing projects! Whew! If anyone wants it listed By Year instead of in groups like this, that'll be most readable in like... list form and that's way too long for a stats post.

Congrats on making it to the end! If you got this far, uh, let me know if you want to see the spreadsheet after the tournament, I guess. I'm very proud of it.

-🧿So excited about my new prints so I have an early limited release of a couple of them before the rest of the stock arrives!! Featuring my Armenian Goddesses and APricot maidens, all covered in beautiful shiny foil!🧿-

Uzundara - prints now available, 100% proceeds for @all_for_armenia . Thank you to the other organizers of the Split Pomegranate shop and zine to support Armenian refugees from Artsakh. Took me forever to figure out the print part, but now you can order directly from INPRNT (link in my bio). INPRNT takes 50% of the sale so you can also Venmo me and I can get you a print directly. It will be lower quality paper and take longer to reach you, but more $ will reach the organization. I will share receipts. ❤️ The zine, which will include over 100 artists, and this drawing, will be available in the winter.

The uzundara (Ուզունդարա) is a traditional dance performed by brides in Artsakh. Swipe to find a YouTube clip to the dance, which consists of slow, methodical, circular steps (syzme) and delicate hand movements. I hope drawing this dance can elevate the joy and resilience of the Armenian people and culture. I chose to research and celebrate Artsakh traditional clothing, based on the History Museum of Armenia exhibit on the region. It states this includes an upper shirt (virvi halav-վիրվի հալավ) and outfit called “irekpshkani,” worn over a chemise.

As a Jew, also with ancestors expelled Turkey during the Armenian and Greek genocide, it means a lot to be able to contribute to this zine and the refusal of SWANA minorities and indigenous communities to be erased.

Hrant Dink was murdered 17 years ago today.

His killer still walks free as if the murder never happened.

Fucking bullshit.

Feel free to reblog.

Turkey is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists. Both foreign and domestic journalists are regularly imprisoned or killed.

And this is encouraged by the Turkish political establishment and their cronies.

Meduza has obtained a copy of guidelines distributed by the Kremlin late September 19 to Russia’s state-controlled news media. The memo contains instructions on how to cover Azerbaijan’s military strike on Nagorno-Karabakh, in which 32 people have been killed and more than 200 injured.

Russia’s propagandist news media are advised to stress that the assault was precipitated by Armenia and its Western “partners,” and that “the Armenian leadership has recognized the sovereignty of Azerbaijan over Karabakh.”

To support this claim, the Kremlin suggests quoting what Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in October 2022 when he and Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, made mutual assurances of each country’s respect for the other’s sovereignty.

The media guidelines say this:

The Armenian Premier was probably pushed to make these remarks by his Western “partners,” who should now fully share the responsibility for their consequences. The Armenian leadership’s decision, which cardinally altered Karabakh’s status, prompted Azerbaijan to take action. Baku now sees the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh as its own internal business.

As for the Russian peacekeepers deployed in Karabakh, the Kremlin suggests describing their function as “monitoring” the situation in the region. It is, nevertheless, advisable to talk about how the peacekeepers help “evacuate the civilian population.”

Other suggested topics for the media to cover include a story about displaced Karabakh residents taking “refuge” in an Orthodox church building, located on the grounds of a Russian peacekeeping base.

Examples of compliant coverage have already started to appear in print. The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, for instance, writes that Nikol Pashinyan agrees that “Karabakh is Azerbaijan.” “The people of Armenia want to see peace in Karabakh and prosperity in Armenia. The government in Yerevan, though, judging by its policies, only dreams of getting rid of Karabakh and sailing west,” the paper opines.

Similarly, the online news outlet Lenta.ru writes that “the Karabakh question is essentially turning into Azerbaijan’s internal business.”

On September 20, Azerbaijan and the government in Nagorno-Karabakh declared a cease-fire. The Artsakh Defense Forces, established with Armenia’s help in Nagorno-Karabakh, will now be dissolved.

On September 21, a meeting on “reintegrating” the Karabakh Armenians into Azerbaijan and ensuring their safety is scheduled to take place in Yevlakh.