Sentences with phrase «armenian family»

Mary served as a Board Member for the Armenian Family Support Services (AFSS) from 2008 - 2012 as well as for Hay Doun from 2012 - 2017, charitable organizations in Toronto and Montreal, which help newcomers settle and integrate into Canada.

Reuben Nakian was born Aug. 10, 1897, in College Point, Long Island, the youngest of five children of an immigrant Armenian family.

Using both live models and Soviet era photographs brought to the US by her Armenian family, Navasardian's studio practice involves both charcoal drawings and acrylic paintings.

Born to an Armenian family living in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, Boghiguian's studies in art and music took her to Montreal in 1970.

Gregorian, president of the Carnegie corporation and former president of Brown University, was born into an Armenian family in Iran and grew up in Iran and Lebanon before coming to the U.S. for higher education.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Yemenidjian moved to the States with his Armenian family when he was still a teenager.

Not exact matches

Amanda and I stopped for lunch at a small family - run Armenian restaurant.

The Armenian all - time top goalscorer is also claimed to have sent family members house - hunting in London, which is an interesting thought...

Meanwhile, an Armenian taxi driver, Razmik (Karren Karagulian) would rather engage Sin - Dee's services than spent Christmas with his family.

Meanwhile, an Armenian taxi driver (Karren Karagulian) is juggling his family's Christmas Eve party with his own desires — hunting for a particular Oh Holy Night hook - up.

Lydia Kurkjian Mantis recounts her family's harrowing experience during the Armenian Genocide and shares how she draws on her own childhood experiences to connect with her students today.

A secret is uncovered that links the two families and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.

Arslan conjures the Armenian Holocaust of 1915 in the story of her immediate family forebears — all but one of them female — who survived it.

Chris Bohjalian's latest novel, The Sandcastle Girls, was inspired by his family's Armenian heritage.

another fuck up Armenian just like the Kardashian family, but in much much worst.

From Gorky's turbulent childhood fleeing the Armenian genocide in Turkey, to his adulthood in the United States, to his suicide in his forties after a traumatic series of physical and emotional setbacks, this biography offers an intimate window into the artist's life, telling his story through many voices: his letters, sent and received; the correspondence of family and friends; pivotal reviews and criticism; newspaper articles and other essential documents.

Altoon was born in Los Angeles in 1925 of Armenian - immigrant parents (the family name was Altoonian).

In 1915, fleeing on foot to Yerevan in Russian Armenia, the family survive the Turkish Armenian massacre, only for his mother to eventually die of starvation in her son's arms.

With these Object works, Yosef is interested in the ambivalence between objection and objects as it relates to his family history as the child of an Armenian Christian mother and Kurdish Muslim father, two groups that have been at odds, at times violently, throughout history.

Then I discovered that this great abstract artist was Armenian, like myself, and that his family, like mine, had suffered in the Armenian genocide.

Both Pinajian and Karabekian, aka Bluebeard, were Armenian - Americans, raised by parents who survived the 1915 Armenian genocide of approximately one and a half million men, women and children, and made their way to the United States, where they raised families during the Great Depression.

The series was inspired by the Gorky family's garden in Khorkom, the Armenian village where Gorky was born and spent his early childhood.

In Toronto, an Armenian Canadian family is headed by Ani, a widow whose husband attempted to assassinate a Turkish ambassador.

She is an active member of the community and works as a Children's Ministry Leader and Teaching Leader in her church and faith - based organizations and has held leadership positions for the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and the Armenian American Mental Health Association.