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Featured Speaker: Nicole Haroutunian Olivia Katrandjian Date: October 19, 2025 Virtual event The October edition of Literary Lights 2025 featured Nicole Haroutunian, author of Choose This Now, in conversation with writer, journalist and IALA founder Olivia Katrandjian. Inseparable friends Val-and-Tal are used to making their decisions together. But what happens when their choices become their own? CHOOSE THIS NOW, a novel-in-stories, illuminates the small moments that shape their lives across nearly twenty years. On Val’s 21st birthday—which falls on Halloween—a sudden act of violence interrupts a longed-for kiss. This unfinished moment haunts Val year after year until she materializes in...

   Book Launch and Concert Featured Performers:  Sylvie Zakarian (marimba) Daniela Tošić (vocal) Karine Bagdasarian (piano)   Location: Armenian Cultural Foundation441 Mystic Street (Route 3), Arlington, MA Date and Time:Sunday, October 19, 2025 4:00 PM ET     Organized by Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF)   Co-sponsored by Amaras Art Alliance (AAA) and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

Featured Presenter: Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Muriel Mirak-Weissbach speaks at the Armenian Cultural Foundation in Arlington for the launch of her book A German General and the Armenian Genocide.  Book Description The legacy of the German general, Otto Liman von Sanders, remains highly contested in the history of twentieth-century Europe and the Middle East. Noted for leading the 5th Ottoman army’s successful defense of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, his role in opposing the Young Turks’ genocide policy and safeguarding Greeks, Armenians, and Jews is overshadowed by his imprisonment for war crimes in 1919. In this enlightening reassessment of Liman von...

Author Mischa Geracoulis will discuss how the role of journalism and the media during times of conflict is to report information from the front lines and war zones with integrity, and report accurately when states or other combatants engage in human rights violations.