Paul Chaderjian

2nd annual Nataline Sarkisyan memorial fashion show attracts hundreds

Jul 24, 2009: On Saturday, nearly 500 people gathered to celebrate the legacy of Nataline Sarkisyan and the Sarkisyan family's 18-month healthcare-reform crusade at the second annual Nataline's Legacy Fashion Show. Paul Chaderjian reports from Calabasas, Calif.  more...

Atom Egoyan talks about his new film, Adoration

May 02, 2009: "When I was making 'Ararat,'" Atom Egoyan tells interviewer Paul Chaderjian, "I just assumed that this would provoke an incredible exchange with younger Turkish kids who would relate. Now I wonder, What was I thinking?" Egoyan discusses his new film, Adoration, and tells readers just what he was thinking.  more...

US-Armenia TV facilities in Burbank are blessed in a visit by Archbishop Hovnan Derderian

Apr 18, 2009: Archbishop Hovnan Derderian on Friday, April 17 blessed CS Media’s new state-of-the-art, all-platform media production facility and studios, located in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world. The Armenian-American community must advance and compete to survive, said the archbishop, Primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church. Paul Chaderjian has the story.  more...

Andre’s Steakhouse exceeds expectations

Mar 27, 2009: Scents that would whet even a vegetarian’s appetite waft through Andre’s Steakhouse, at the northeast corner of Tamiami and 28th Avenue. The front and back parking lots are full, and there are no empty parking spots on the street. It’s the last Saturday night of February, and Andre’s is packed like it is every night during “the season,” when tourists and retirees converge on Florida’s Paradise Coast, off the Gulf of Mexico. Paul Chaderjian reports from Florida.  more...

Community members meet U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar

Mar 06, 2009: Foreign policy, the Republic of Armenia, displaced Iraqi-Armenians, the genocide in Darfur, the U.S. economy, energy, and technology were some of the topics discussed by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D.-Minn.) and members of the Armenian-American community last Sunday. The meeting was hosted by Gerard and Cleo Cafesjian and organized by the U.S.–Armenia Public Affairs Committee (USAPAC). Paul Chaderjian has a report.  more...

Rubina Peroomian explores sexual violence during the Armenian Genocide

Feb 12, 2009: Rubina Peroomian, in an interview with Paul Chaderjian, expounds on the topic of psychological and sexual warfare waged against Armenians during the Genocide of 1915 – a subject that the author has investigated extensively in her new study.  more...

ABC News’ Lara Setrakian: 21st-century all-platform journalist

Jan 22, 2009: At age 26, Lara Setrakian is the ABC News Bureau in the boom town that is the United Arab Emirates. Full of story ideas, energy, and technical know-how, this daughter of the New York metro Armenian-American community reaches millions with her reporting. Paul Chaderjian reports from Dubai.  more...

Richard G. Hovannisian: In his own words

Nov 24, 2008: At the Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy in Kolkata, noted scholar Richard G. Hovannisian, spoke to the Armenian Reporter about Armenians in India.  more...

Liberation ideologists in India: Forebears of modern Armenian political parties

Nov 24, 2008: Professor Richard G. Hovannisian, speaking at a seminar in Tangra, India, recalls the 18th-century Armenian intellectuals in Madras who laid the blueprint for the independent Armenia that they envisaged, Paul Chaderjian reports.  more...

Stark realities of the remnants of a diaspora

Nov 24, 2008: Two old friends – Ani Hovannisian-Kevorkian and Paul Chaderjian – visit the Armenian Church in the Slums, in Tangra, India, where "rats run in puddles of human waste on streets people call home."  more...

A deacon becomes a priest in an historic event for Indian-Armenian community

Nov 19, 2008: The Saidabad church sits on 12 acres of land in a remote suburb of the city of Hyderabad, where no Armenian lives. It was once abandoned and a former chairperson of the Armenian Community Council of India wanted to give it away until the Indian-Armenian community and the Armenian Church intervened, Paul Chaderjian reports from Saidabad.  more...

In Kolkata, 300th anniversary of an Armenian church is celebrated

Nov 19, 2008: During a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Armenian church in Kolkata, India, the Catholicos of All Armenians ordained into the priesthood a deacon who had been serving the parish for the last two years. Paul Chaderjian reports from Kolkata.  more...

Karekin II reconsecrates Armenian church in Chennai

Nov 12, 2008: The bells of the Armenian Church in India’s fourth-largest city rang once again on Sunday, November 9, after decades of silence, Paul Chaderjian reports. Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, came to Chennai from Holy Etchmiadzin to reconsecrate the newly renovated Soorp Asdvadzadzin or St. Mary Mother of God Church.  more...

Armenian pilgrimage to India: The pilgrims and their stories

Nov 07, 2008: A diverse group of Armenians have headed for India to help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the St. Nazareth Armenian Church in Kolkata. Paul Chaderjian tells their stories.  more...

Armenians make pilgrimage to Kolkata

Nov 07, 2008: After jetting across the Pacific and Atlantic, boarding planes in Australia and Austria, enduring layovers in Hong Kong and Dubai, hundreds of Armenians from all over the world are gathering this week in Kolkata to mark the 300th anniversary of St. Nazareth Armenian Church.  more...

From Minnesota with love, surgeons heal broken smiles, deliver hope

Oct 11, 2008: They came to Armenia from Minnesota and the Midwest – the American Heartland – on a medical mission. They came to heal those born with one of the most common birth defects around the world – cleft palates and cleft lips. Paul Chaderjian reports from Yerevan.  more...

A new smile, and a new life for a 16-month-old

Oct 10, 2008: Sixteen months ago in a remote village near Gyumri, Pepron Yeghoyan gave birth to a baby girl; the newborn, Seda Davtyan, had a cleft palate and cleft lip. Paul Chaderjian tells the story of the family's struggle and the life-changing gift of the Smile Project.  more...

World renowned doctors to perform 50 life-changing surgeries in Armenia this week

Oct 07, 2008: More than a dozen doctors, nurses, and other specialists are in Yerevan this week to perform 50 life-­altering operations on clients with cleft lip, cleft palate, or both, Paul Chaderjian reports. The operations will be realized through Project Smile. Project Smile was initiated by the Cafesjian Family Foundation, Hope for the City, and the Smile Network which leads similar projects around the world. The three Minneapolis-based organizations have come together to address cleft-care needs in Armenia.  more...

Talking pictures: Modern Armenian history in photographs

Sep 24, 2008: Paul Chaderjian interviews Arsineh Khachikian, a prolific American-Armenian photographer, who has published some 300 of her photographs in a book called "My Nation: The Trails and Trials of an Armenian Repatriate."  more...

U.S. donors support National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia

Sep 23, 2008: Mark and Paulette Geragos host a fund raiser for the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia at their home in southern California.  more...

Note to self

Sep 20, 2008: Time continues to speed up, perhaps just for me, but I hear it from others too. There's never enough time to do all the things we have to do and want to do. There's never enough time to keep ourselves with the news of the day, process the hundreds of e-mails that come through, look at the websites that attract us, watch the shows we want to watch, and hear the radio stations we want to hear. Let's not forget those nasty text messages.  more...

Millennium Challenge Armenia program “moving ahead in all respects”

Aug 30, 2008: Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R.-Mich.), co-chair of the Armenian Caucus and senior congressional appropriator, highlighted the importance of the five-year $235 million Millennium Challenge Corporation's program in Armenia as Detroit's Armenian community hosted MCC chief executive Ambassador John Danilovich on August 5.  more...

Millennium Challenge Armenia program “moving ahead in all respects

Aug 30, 2008: Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R.-Mich.), co-chair of the Armenian Caucus and senior congressional appropriator, highlighted the importance of the five-year $235 million Millennium Challenge Corporation's program in Armenia as Detroit's Armenian community hosted MCC chief executive Ambassador John Danilovich on August 5.  more...

Cher the Armenian

Feb 16, 2008: Seven nights before the giant presses in Gardena, California, or Westwood, New Jersey, printed these black letters on the paper that is in your hands now, the writer of this article had writer's block.  more...

The wholeness and holiness of singing a children’s song

May 05, 2007: Mothers have sung their children to sleep as far back as human memory can recall. It's something human, natural, almost effortless.  more...