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Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Director Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced the publication of Dr. James R. Russell’s Misak Medzarents: The Complete Lyric Poems, Volume 12 in the Armenian Series of The Press at California State University, Fresno. Misak Medzarents, 1886-1908, was the second great lyric poet of the Western Armenian language after Bedros Tourian. During his tragically short life ...

Special to Hye Sharzhoom NAASR   The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies: Prof. Houri Berberian for the monograph Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (University of California Press) and Dr. ...

Sosse Baloian Staff Writer In a 2005 article written by Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink, a French-Armenian woman passed away while visiting her childhood village in Turkey. When the question arose of where her burial ought to take place, a villager responded, “Let her be buried here… the water has found its crack.” This story embodies the Armenian longing for ...

Christine Pambukyan Staff Writer Imagine this. Your father was drafted for a war months ago and you are now living in your family home with your grandparents, your siblings, and your mother. Holidays come and go, yet there is no sign of your father. Soon, your grandfather is arrested, and your mother asks you and your siblings to no longer ...

Arshak Abelyan Staff Writer The foundation of the new Republic of Turkey in 1923 presented a new challenge to the Armenian community in Turkey. The question was how Armenians and other non-Muslims should be defined under the new Republic. Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı, 17th Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies during the Fall 2020 semester, presented his second lecture of three ...

Fresno State News Special to Hye Sharzhoom For Breanna Aivazian, a chance to save money on college by living at home felt like a gift to her future self. Aivazian is just one among dozens of Fresno State alumni this fall who have landed new jobs teaching English and language arts at area high schools. Aivazian teaches freshmen and juniors ...

Sara Beberian Staff Writer “The least you can do is let it not be in vain,” said Karine Shamlian. “You feel responsible for who we are as a people.” Shamlian understands the terrors her grandmother, Genocide survivor Asdghig Tetezian Alemian, underwent and strives to preserve Armenian culture and traditions to honor her. Alemian, however, is not the only Armenian to ...

Staff Report The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) Executive Council held a meeting on November 11, 2020 to choose its new Executive officers for 2021. Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) was re-elected as SAS President. Also elected were Vice-President Dzovinar Derderian (American University of Armenia); Secretary Nora Lessersohn (University College London); Treasurer Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno); ...

 Benjamin Kirk College of Arts & Humanities Every year, about 50 to 60 students receive a scholarship from Fresno State through the Armenian Studies Program. Awards range from $1,000 to $2,000. A total of more than $70,000 in scholarship and grants from endowments are given to Fresno State to aid students interested in the language and history of Armenian. To ...

  Sara Beberian Staff Writer “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Armenians have been plagued by this haunting 1939 question from Adolf Hitler for many years. The Armenian Genocide is an open wound in the hearts of Armenians all around the world. Over 100 years later, Armenians still suffer from Turkey’s denial of their “crime ...