Personal Stories
Knock at the door and it will open…
By Gayane Chobanyan I was maybe 4 years old; I can’t remember exactly, it was sometime around 1994. My mother, brother and I were sitting next to the wood furnace in the candlelight. Why didn’t we have electricity and had to spend our evenings in the candlelight? Why couldn’t we watch TV? Why didn’t we … Continue reading
Behind the fences
By Nermin Noqte There is a road that takes me far, far away. Someone lost their freedom on that road, someone their relatives. This road reconciled someone with their loneliness and someone with their unfinished life. As for me… I search for comfort on this road that took my childhood once somewhere afar, in a … Continue reading
Shall We Dance? This Dance of Life…
By Armine Babajanyan -Now please, let’s dance! -But everyone will be staring! -Why would you care? They don’t know you… -If they don’t know me, I probably don’t know them. -C’mon, this is just a dance….Why would anyone care about others watching them dance? Is it because you don’t know who is watching you? What … Continue reading
Why I Don’t Eat Toasted Bread
By Maria Karapetyan I was 4 years old when the Nagorno-Karabakh war started. My family living in the Lori region of Armenia was devastated by the consequences of the 1988 earthquake and we had no permanent residence. It is hard to differentiate which of my family’s hardships were conditioned by the economic situation of the … Continue reading
“You may say that I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one”
By Veronika Agajanyan “IMAGINE” Armenian-Azerbaijani Dialogue Programme 2011 in lovely Bakuriani, Georgia is over. It has been the fifth year since young people from the two countries gathered on a neutral territory to discuss the complexity of the relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia trying to find some ways for their improvement. It was not the … Continue reading
