Staff Report Hye Talk successfully completed taping its Fall 2001 season of nine shows, on Tuesday, November 20. The television interview program, produced by the Armenian Studies Program and Department of Mass Communications and Journalism at Fresno State, had its premiere on Thursday, October 18, featuring an interview with Dr. Robert Hewsen, Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno ...

Robert Torosian Staff Writer 2001 marks the 1700th year anniversary of the proclamation of Christianity as the State Religion of Armenia and the Fresno State Armenian Studies Program is doing everything it can to help educate students about this important event. The ASP organized a three-part lecture series this Fall, “The Conversion of Armenia to Christianity,” to be given by ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held its annual membership meeting on Saturday, November 17, 2001, in conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual conference held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco. At the SAS meeting, election results were announced for two positions on the Executive Council. Elected were Christina Maranci, of ...

Staff Report Berge Bulbulian’s The Fresno Armenians is being reprinted by Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press, Inc., with the book expected to be ready by November 1. The new edition has a forward by Professor Dickran Kouymjian, Haig and Isabel Berberian Chair of Armenian Studies at Fresno State. The second edition has been updated with added information. Click Here to ...

Staff Report Dr. Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos and archival gifts. His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the See of Cilicia for the copies of his books, In Search of Ecumenical Vision. Lebanon: Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, 2000 and L’église Face Aux Grands Défis., ...

Editors Michael Harutinian Sevag Tateosian Staff Nazik Arisian Tamara Karakashian Ara Mekhitarian Arpik Paraghamian Chris Tozlian Photographers Dikran Chekian Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Barlow Der Mugrdechian Hye Sharzhoom is a supplement of The Collegian and the newspaper of the C.S.U.F. Armenian Students Organization and the Armenian Studies Program and is funded by the Associated Students. Articles may be reprinted provided ...

By: Ara Mekhitarian Virtual Ani Address: http://www.virtualani.freeserve.co.uk/ Brief Summary: Virtual Ani is a web site based in the United Kingdom, offering extensive information on the ancient city of Ani. A thousand years ago, Ani was the capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom. Ani’s many churches, palaces and fortifications were among the most technically and artistically advanced buildings of the time. ...

Staff Report The Armenian Students Organization semester opening barbeque was a great success. Held at Fresno’s Woodward Park, more than 60 new and old ASO members gathered for an evening of fun. Armenian music could be heard throughout the night on a perfect September evening. The ASO is planning many new activities for the upcoming year. The Armenian Students Organization ...

Tamara Karakashian Staff Writer As the lights dimmed, hundreds of spectators rushed to their seats; the curtains were drawn to reveal the Armenian army and King Arshak II celebrating a glorious victory over the Persians. Armenians for centuries since have learned about the history of the great nation of Armenia from historians such as Agathangelos, Movses of Khoren, and Pavstos ...

Arpik Paraghamian Staff Writer Donald Abcarian, a graduate of U. C. Berkeley and a native of Fresno, recently translated Raffi’s The Fool. Abcarian opened the Armenian Studies Program’s Fall Lecture Series on Monday, September 10, with selected readings from his translation. In 1835 Hagop Melik Hagopian was born in a village called Bayajuk, near Salmas, in northwest Iran. Though this ...