Nov 1, 2015

BBC Azeri: Azerbaijani Carpets Rewoven

reWoven Exhibition, Europe House, Tbilisi, Georgia © Onnik James Krikorian 2015

Last week BBC Azeri published my video report on reWoven, a sustainable development project to revive and sustain the art of traditional carpet weaving among Georgia’s ethnic Azeri minority. I had interviewed Ryan Smith, reWoven’s founder, over a month ago during an exhibition of some of the carpets made as part of the project, but only got to visit one of the villages where some of the weavers live last weekend.

My video report (above) is in Azerbaijani, but reWoven’s website in English is here.

reWoven Exhibition, Europe House, Tbilisi, Georgia © Onnik James Krikorian 2015

Iormughanlo (Qarachop), Georgia © Onnik James Krikorian 2015

From Key West to Key Failures – The Demise of the OSCE Minsk Group

Jan 15, 2025

When I moved to Yerevan in October 1998, it was rare to hear much positive conversation about the future of Armenia or Karabakh. That had also been the case when I visited the country on a research trip earlier that June. Many were already tired of the conflict and few seemed enthused with a new regime that had just come to power after the ousting the country’s first president earlier that year.

Interview on Armenia-Azerbaijan Normalisation

Dec 21, 2024

Earlier this month I was briefly interviewed by Nazrin Babayeva from Report.Az. It was published in two parts so included below is the full text in whole.