--- description: Simon Maghakyan is an associate member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, a visiting professor in political science at Colorado College, and author of Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past (Cambridge University Press). title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Simon Maghakyan ## Simon Maghakyan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close [Simon Maghakyan](https://x.com/simonforco) is an associate member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, a visiting professor in political science at Colorado College, and author of [_Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past (Cambridge University Press)_](https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/sovereign-heritage-crime/57A43BF1C6599927BA5BBF7E41C763F6). ## Simon Maghakyan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jan 30, 2026 ### [How Fatherhood Gave Me a Language to Resist Cultural Erasure](https://time.com/7362424/armenia-djulfa-cemetery-khachkar/) As I raised my son, I learned that passing down poems, memory, and language can be a quiet but power... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 18, 2024 ### [Azerbaijan Should Never Have Been COP Host](https://time.com/7177165/azerbaijan-climate-human-rights-cop29/) The petrostate has an especially dubious human rights and climate record. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 24, 2023 ### [The U.S. Must Defend Armenia's Democracy](https://time.com/6327596/turkey-armenia-azerbaijan-invade-united-states/) With the world’s eyes on Gaza, experts believe that sovereign Armenia is the next Turkish-Azerbaijan... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 8, 2023 ### [The Case for U.S.-Russia Cooperation in Nagorno-Karabakh](https://time.com/6312232/us-russia-cooperation-nagorno-karabakh/) An enduring solution to the wider Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict can only happen if Washington and Mo... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 22, 2023 ### [How Azerbaijan Weaponized the Environment](https://time.com/6257467/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-lachin-environment-icj/) In Nagorno-Karabakh, President Aliyev's "eco-activists" blockaded the Lachin corridor. It's set a da... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 15, 2022 ### [This Winter Could Be Dangerous for Armenians](https://time.com/6241293/armenia-azerbaijan-winter-war/) During WWI, Ottoman Turkey and Tsarist Russia wrestled for Armenia. Now, the memory of that battle h... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 3, 2022 ### [How the U.S. May Determine the Future of Armenia](https://time.com/6219263/armenia-azerbaijan-us-involvement/) Washington seems to have realized just how serious the threat is—not just for Armenia, but for the w... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 4, 2022 ### [Putin's Isn't the Only Regime Leveraging Fossil Fuels for Aggression](https://time.com/6163908/nagorno-karabakh-gas-crisis/) Even as the war in Ukraine has the world’s attention, another conflict also shines a light on how fo... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/simon-maghakyan/","name":"Simon Maghakyan"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/simon-maghakyan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/simon-maghakyan/"},"name":"Simon Maghakyan","jobTitle":null,"description":"Simon Maghakyan is an associate member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, a visiting professor in political science at Colorado College, and author of Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past (Cambridge University Press).","url":"https://time.com/author/simon-maghakyan/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```