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Yerevan. Places. Events. People Quote from the below link: "Having been founded 2798 years ago, Yerevan is among those cities that lost their past during the chase of the future. During the last centennial Yerevan has changed radically and not once. How did it look like 50, 100 years ago? In this book, we offer to collect the most complete series of archive photos of demolished buildings with a short dossier of each building: construction year, important events connected with or happened in the building, year of demolition.... http://miaban.am/campaigns/yerevan-places-events-people /

Turkey needs religious constitution, parliament speaker says : Overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey needs a religious constitution and the precept of secularism should be dropped from the country's new charter, parliament's speaker said, marking a potential rupture with the modern republic's founding principles

The End of Syria’s Multiculturalism? A Panel with Activists and Scholars from Minority Backgrounds - Friday, April 08, 2016 – 6:30 PM Room 9205 Ethnic and religious groups lived in the Levant for centuries, but the civil war in Syria was devastating consequences for these communities. A multicultural society is disappearing and new lines of division are being drawn in the region, forcing populations into exile, displacement, dispossession and trauma. Three young Syrian men from minority communities will discuss the power dynamics in Syria after 2011 and the issues of identity and dominance in the region. Harout Ekmanian is a journalist, trained as a lawyer in Aleppo. He was a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights of Columbia University in 2015. He has worked in media and development in the Republic of Armenia in various capacities at the Civilitas Foundation and Hetq Online. His pieces are featured in Voice of America, Tagesspiegel, O Globo, Near East Quarterl...

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Here is a detailed information, great article describing the East New York Section: Broken, what the hell happened in East New York? Broken by Kevin Heldman Apr 8 2016 http://digg.com/2016/broken-what-the-hell-happened-in-east-new-york?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg