November 25 - To end violence against women

The Waldorf school experience in Armenia
When I moved to Armenia in 2003, my daughters were very young and schooling was something that I was thinking about endlessly. I am known to be a slightly paranoid mother and choosing a school or a kindergarten was a major concern for me, specially here. The process started by long visits to almost more than 10-12 schools and kindergartens in the city center, not too far from the area where we

vanished life
She served the best tea in Shushi. I always visited her during my stay there. It was a long process; at first she boiled the water in this old samovar, then prepared the concentrated tea in a small Chinese teapot with red magnolias design on it. Then she took out the beautiful set of blue teacups, gently kept in an old

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Do we care?
Diguine(Mrs) Sissee was born in 1957, in the Yezidi-Kurdish village of Alagyaz in Armenia. As was the tradition in her culture, her future husband kidnapped her on her way to school, when she was 15 years old. He locked her one full day in his house to ruin her reputation (having spent a day in a stranger’s house without someone chaperoning her was enough to presume that she was no longer virgin and not suitable to get married to someone else), Her wedding was followed by the traditional “apple throwing on the new bride” ceremony, where the bride stands in the middle of a circle of people and mainly the mother-in-law throws apples towards her head to test the new bride’s stren