March 4, 2024
A Spectrum of Cultural Memory—In Conversation with Lucia Kagramanyan of Panorama Yerevan
In January, Assistant Editor Aram Kavoossi sat down for a Zoom conversation with Lucia Kagramanyan, host of the bimonthly Panorama Yerevan program on NTS Radio. A resident DJ for the London-based NTS as well as for the Bethlehem-based Radio Alhara, Kagramanyan’s Panorama presents a kaleidoscopic soundscape of Armenian music from Armenia and its diasporas, reaching across social, historical, and musicological categories. Kagramanyan’s latest broadcast, “Armenian Liturgy for Palestine,”...
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November 4, 2021
Mizna 22.1 Foreword: On SWANA Literature + Art
Ruba ElMelik, Aram Kavoossi and Mizna Community Purchase your copy of Mizna 22.1 here. As Mizna asserts its identity beyond the frame of Arabness, we find ourselves gathering more as a collective of intersecting lives and experiences than as representatives of any fixed identity. While Mizna’s work has recently been categorized under the term Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), we recognize the inherent limitations of any term to fully hold us as we work toward cultural...
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