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Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that the Leon S. Peters Foundation has continued their generous support of the Armenian Studies Program with a grant of $30,000 for 2023. The Peters Foundation support for the Program over the past eleven years has reached $330,000. This continues the tradition of the Peters Foundation in supporting the ...

Dr. Allen Azizian A few days after the onset of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) war, a group of medical and mental health professionals from Armenia and the Diaspora, myself included, started to volunteer in hospitals that were treating military service members. It did not take long for most of us to realize that the aftermath of the war was going ...

Hannah Paloutzian Staff Writer “Immediately following the Genocide, Armenians did not want to return to Armenia, as it represented death and loss. As generations continued, Armenians wanted to return to their ancestral homeland” stated Dr. Carel Bertram as she discussed her new book, A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory. Dr. Carel Bertram is Professor ...

Arshak Abelyan Staff Writer “I am a Muslim by faith, and an Armenian by lineage, by blood. Genetically, I am Armenian, and that’s unchangeable. Just as I took my “Y” chromosome from my father, I took my Armenian identity from him. But I was born a Muslim,” stated Yusuf, a Muslim Armenian, who Dr. Hrag Papazian narrated in his own ...

Natalie Agazarian Staff Writer Armenian Studies 10, Introduction to Armenian Studies, is a General Education course taught by Dr. Hagop Ohanessian. The class is designed “to serve as an introduction to the historical and contemporary experience of Armenians in American society. It fulfills Area D2 of the Fresno State General Education requirements and is a required course in the Armenian ...

Sara Beberian ASO President Armenian students this year on campus cannot get enough of ASO! The Armenian Students Organization on campus is following the legacy of years past by hosting monthly events where students can come together to enjoy one another’s company and keep Armenian community bonds strong. ASO’s organized a broomball game held on Friday, October 28 at Gateway ...

Staff Report A selection of photographs, curated from the illustrated history book, The Armenian Highland, have been published in a newly released 2023 wall calendar. The calendar features 18 color photographs from Ani, Van, Kars, Kharpert, Erzerum, Bitlis, Sasoon, and Tigranakert, as well as maps of ancient Armenia and of the Armenian Highland, which includes the lands known today as ...

Christine Pambukyan Staff Writer “The reason I titled my series of presentations “Armenians and ‘Other Armenians’ in Turkey” has to do very much with how the Republic of Turkey …, as a nation-state, understands, categorizes and defines Armenians” explained Dr. Hrag Papazian, the 19th Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno State. “The Muslim and Alevi Armenians are ‘other ...

Andrew Hagopian Editor “It starts out, and it’s a string quartet, which is a bad sign because it is not what I want. I want truth. I want down right folk truth. Then this voice comes out of the record and I immediately thought, oh, I like you,” said Ian Nagoski, when first listening to the voice of soprano Zabelle ...

Staff Report Fresno State alumnus James L. Melikian, hosted an annual September gathering of friends at his home in Southern California, in support of the James L. Melikian & L.A. Brothers Scholarship fund, which was established at Fresno State in 2019. This year’s gathering raised over $5,000, which will be awarded to deserving students studying in the Armenian Studies Program ...