Simon Maghakyan

Nov 18, 2024 | time.com | Simon Maghakyan

IdeasBy Simon MaghakyanNovember 18, 2024 10:31 AM ESTSimon Maghakyan is a political scientist specializing in heritage and security. His research on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict has been cited at the U.N. Security Council and the International Court of Justice. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, and author of Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Jan 11, 2024 | horizonweekly.ca | Simon Maghakyan |Artyom H. Tonoyan |Siranush Sargsyan |Lori Berberian

8 0 By Simon Maghakyan, Artyom Tonoyan, Siranush Sargsyan, Lori BerberianNew Lines MagazineNewly available satellite imagery suggests a possible basis for rumors Azerbaijan was preparing to imprison the region’s residentsLate last spring, Armenian residents in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh heard the clamors and loud noises of construction work.

Jan 10, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Simon Maghakyan

Newly available satellite imagery suggests a possible basis for rumors Azerbaijan was preparing to imprison the region's residents Late last spring, Armenian residents in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh heard the clamors and loud noises of construction work. At night, from their sleepy village of Khramort, they could see bright lighting and hear screeching noises emanating from the nearby region of Aghdam, across the de facto border in Azerbaijan.

Nov 27, 2023 | evnreport.com | Anna Green |Simon Maghakyan

Following Azerbaijan’s September 2023 attack against and ethnic cleansing of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the issue of the preservation of Armenian monuments has again become a hot topic. Simon Maghakyan, an academic and investigative researcher best known for his pioneering exposé of Azerbaijan’s covert erasure of Nakhichevan’s Armenian past spoke with EVN Report and provided updates and insights.

Oct 23, 2023 | time.com | Simon Maghakyan

IdeasOctober 24, 2023 6:00 AM EDTMaghakyan is a visiting scholar at Tufts University and a Ph.D. student in Heritage Crime at Cranfield University. He writes and speaks on post-Soviet memory politics and cultural erasure, and facilitates global conversations on protecting Armenian heritage“History has taught us that when terrorists and dictators don’t pay a price, they cause more death and destruction,” President Joe Biden said on Oct. 20, explaining Washington’s backing of Israel and Ukraine.