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Art & Culture The American dream hits an Armenian rock artist BEIRUT, by Louise Wernvik | iloubnan.info - March 06, 2013, 12h42 http://www.iloubnan.info//uploads/image/Portrait/eileen1.jpg New doors are opening up for Armenian rock singer Eileen Khatchadourian, from Beirut, who will soon be performing for an American audience outside of Los Angeles. Little by little she is realizing her dream and going out of Lebanon. “I have high expectations. It´s making me feel anxious and stressed but I guess this is the price I have to pay and I´m ready to pay it,” she said. In December, 2009, Eileen Khatchadourian received an award for best rock album at the Armenian Music Awards, in LA. Now, four years later, she will be doing her first concert in the states. In San Gabriel, outside of LA, a festival for Armenian artists called Mosaic V, will be hosting Eileen Khatchadourian as their main artist of the event, on March 16. “It´s the first time they will see me on stage. Now I have to show them why I got this award.” Mostly Armenians are expected to fill up the 2000 seats of the venue. But Eileen Khatchadourian has also gained many fans who are strangers to her mother tongue. By singing only in Armenian, turning old folk songs into rock, she succeeded in communicating her cultural identity onto an international crowd. “I´m the first female Armenian artist in rock, this is interesting to them. The energy I give on stage goes further than only to Armenians. Whenever I perform I give a resume of each song, so they don’t become stranger and I don’t become stranger to them. They love the music, the production, and probably my voice as well.” America has left a star shaped mark on Eileen Khatchadourian. Her big wish for this concert is that it will generate in more opportunities, helping her leave Lebanon and establish herself as musician in other places of the world. By this time next year, she hopes to be in the states again. “I love the states. This country really gives you the tools to succeed and if you´re smart and lucky enough you can get somewhere. It´s a country you can only admire.” After her concert in California, Eileen Khatchadourian will be continuing her travels to Europe, where she will be screening for a movie in Berlin, which features two of her songs. She will also be travelling to Barcelona to shoot a music video. Though Eileen Khatchadourian has a busy spring in front of her, her Lebanese fans will not be forgotten. When she returns home in the middle of April, she is hoping to have a concert, in Beirut, which will be her first within the last two years. http://youtu.be/4vFw_TR6yyY

WORLD COMMUNITY NOT TO ALLOW AZERBAIJAN TO SHOOT DOWN PLANES HEADING TO KARABAKH - TSVETANA PASKALEVA NEWS.AM March 05, 2013 | 14:30 YEREVAN.- World community will not allow Azerbaijan to shoot down civilian aircrafts heading to Nagorno-Karabakh, Bulgarian journalist said. Tsvetana Paskaleva is happy to hear reports on possible prompt opening of the airport. Paskaleva remembers the airport which she saw during her first trip to Karabakh back in 1991. The journalist is hopeful the airport will open in the near future, adding more political will and activeness is needed. As to Azerbaijan's threats to shoot down planes flying to Stepanakert, Paskaleva noted international community will not allow this. Opening of the Stepanakert airport remains a number one issue in Azerbaijan. The official Baku periodically voices threats to shoot down the aircrafts. However, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister Araz Azimov recently said "official Baku will not permit Armenia to conduct civil aviation flights over the air space of occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, but it will do this without the use of military means."