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Our meeting #12 featured Lucia Babayants, a prospective candidate for Eurovision 2012 and Narguiz Birk-Peterson, the host of Eurovision 2012 in Azerbaijan, who discussed how the politics between Armenia and Azerbaijan have long permeated into t
Our meeting #11, "On the latest developments", took place on September 27th, 2022. Zaur Shiriyev and Arman Grigoryan discussed the developments in September 2022 in the Armenian-Azerbaijani context, the broader conflict, and their perspective
Anush, Argentinian-Armenian, and Bilge, Turkish-Azerbaijani, get to know each other for the first time through questions related to their identity as diasporans of their community, their experiences growing up and encountering "the other".Rec
Garden Chat #15 featured Giorgi Rizhvadze, a Georgian civil society activist, who joined Diego to talk about the recent protests in Georgia around the controversial "foreign agent" bill, the state of the local civil society, as well as the pote
Our meeting #16 featured Uli Nasibova and Maria Zakaryan, whose family histories include the enclaves of Yukhari Askipara and Artsvashen respectively. Uli and Maria shared their family stories and their opinions about the ongoing delimitation p
Our Garden Chat #14 featured Rufat Agayev, a stand up comedian of Armenian and Azerbaijani heritage, who joined Marat to discuss his experience of growing up during the first war, his journey to the US and the role of humor in political and soc
Our tenth meeting was a special meeting in honor of the late Georgi (Georgy) Vanyan. On October 15th, 2021, Georgi left us after losing a battle with Covid-19. He passed away in Georgia, the same country where some of his initiatives came to li
Our thirteenth Garden Chat featured Elnura Hüseynova, an Azerbaijani poet and literary historian. She joined our volunteer Narek Aleksanyan for a conversation about her new article on Sayat-Nova in Azerbaijani national memory and historiography
Our 12th Garden Chat featured Thomas de Waal, a veteran journalist and writer specializing on South Caucasus and Eastern Europe. In the interview with our volunteer Marat Grigoryan, de Waal talked about his work and the developments in Nagorno-
Our tenth Garden Chat featured Mirkamran Huseynli, a PhD fellow at Vytautas Magnus University. In the interview with our co-director Arnold Alahverdian, Huseynli talked about Azerbaijani history textbooks and nationalism, the common notions of
Oğul Tuna joined Andrea for a chat about his research and views on history and politics regarding Armenians and Azerbaijanis, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Oğul has researched the parallel lives of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Bolsheviks, Stepan Sh
Our third Tət-à-Tեt #3 Raffi Chilingirian is a talented duduk player residing in Beirut, who joined Uli Nasibova in Los Angeles for a conversation about the duduk and about similar and shared musical styles, instruments, and traditions among Ar
Our second Roundtable was an engaging discussion with Javid Agha, who answered the questions of our audience about society, politics, identity, history and minorities, with a few questions on Udis and Caucasian Albanians as well.
Garo Paylan is a former Turkish-Armenian MP and a founding member of HDP (People’s Democratic Party) in Turkey. He is an outspoken voice about politics, human rights and civil society in regards to Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan.Paylan joined
Our second Tət-à-Tեt features Collectif Medz Bazar, a band with musicians of Armenian, Turkish, American and French descent based in Paris. With their multicultural background, their music not only expresses a lot of these different influences
Our meeting #15, "LGBTQ+ people and the war", featured queer activists from Azerbaijan and Armenia, Aykhan Osmanli and Kelly Hovhannisyan. They discussed the pressing issues LGBTQ+ people face in both countries, the impact of the armed conflict
In Part 2 of the meeting between Ülviyyə Nasibova and Arnold Alahverdian, Uli first describes her experiences having taken part in Imagine Dialogue, a dialogue initiative which includes programs involving Azerbaijanis and Armenians and recounts
Our first Tәt-à-Tեt, featuring Uli Nasibova and Arnold Alahverdian, took place on October 2021. Originally from Azerbaijan, Uli is the owner of Uli's Gelato in LA. In Part 1 of this interview, she shares her families' experiences through the f
Rich Elmoyan and Javid Agha (Cavid Ağa) discussed social media and their activity on it, the pros and cons of online platforms for mass interaction, and the responsibility that comes with having a large following.
Rauf shares with our volunteer Emmanuel Chacatrjan his experiences and opinions as a refugee from Lachin about the ongoing crisis in Karabakh.
Prof. Anna Ohanyan and Shujaat Ahmadzada join us to discuss the new reality on the ground after Azerbaijan's military operation on Nagorno-Karabakh.
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