Armenia
From Beirut to Yerevan: A survivor’s story
Seventy-three-year-old Shoghik Hekimyan-Godalazian moved to Armenia after a massive explosion in August 2020 ripped through her home in downtown Beirut. But the move, coming just before war broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh, has not been without difficulties. Shoghik Hekimyan-Godalazian still carries shards of glass in her legs from the 2020 Beirut explosion. She is one of 1,100 Lebanese-Armenians to immigrate to Armenia following the blast. For the months she has lived in the country, she has sta
