Topic: Books
FRESNO — Author Dr. Jerry Burger will speak about his book The Shadows of 1915 on Friday, February 17, at 7 pm., in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, on the Fresno State campus. The event is part of the Armenian[...]
FRESNO — Internationally-renowned photographer Hrair “Hawk” Khatcherian will speak on his new book, Artsakh: The Photographer’s Eye! at on Friday, February 3, at 7 p.m., in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium,[...]
Anti-heroine: 1-female protagonist not confined by the expectations put upon her. 2-someone who makes “unconventional life choices.” NEW YORK — Aida Zilelian’s characters often lull the reader into a false sense of security or[...]
FRESNO — Dr. Henry Shapiro will give a presentation titled the “Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” on Thursday, January 26, at 7 p.m., in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium,[...]
FRESNO — “The Story Behind Soghomon Tehlirian and the Assassination of Talaat Pasha” will be the topic of a presentation by Ara Sarafian on Monday, January 23, at 7 p.m., in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, on[...]
PARAMUS, N.J. — Most Armenians are familiar with Franz Werfel’s book, The 40 Days of Musa Dagh, detailing the true story of six villages that resisted the Turkish army on the Mountain of Moses (Musa Dagh). Now, an illustrated[...]
BELMONT, Mass. — The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in December announced the winners of the 2022 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies: Dr. Ümit Kurt for The Armenians of[...]
Two seminal studies of the Armenian genocide have recently appeared in Iran, in Farsi (Persian) translations. The first is Wolfgang Gust’s monumental collection of documents from the German Foreign Ministry archives, which detail what[...]
YEREVAN/MONTREAL, Canada — All my life I have been fascinated by the literary heritage and colorful biography of the eminent Armenian writer of the 20th century, Kostan Zarian, as well as the unusual history of the Zarian family, by[...]
BELMONT, Mass. — The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS), and the Ararat-Eskijian Museum will present a webinar with Dr. Ümit Kurt on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, at 7:30[...]