Dustin Vartanian Staff Writer “It is not just a job. These are my people. These are my family. These are my neighbors. These are my friends. These are the valley residents that come to Fresno State and whom I appreciate deeply.” These are the words of San Joaquin Valley native Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, on becoming Fresno State’s new Interim President. ...

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 ...