Svetlana Bagdasarov Staff Writer On February 23rd, at approximately 8PM, Tata Simonyan graced the stage of the Warnors Theatre in downtown Fresno. Thanks to the tremendous effort of local promoter Hakop Krboyan, people were finally able to enjoy a popular concert without having to travel to big cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco. Fresno was truly lucky to have ...

Staff Writer The Land and Culture Organization is planning its annual campaign from July 3-31, 2007, with the possibility of one in August as well. Volunteers will arrange for their own transportation to Armenia to meet with the group by July 3rd. In 1977 a group of young Frenchmen of Armenian heritage led by Keram Kevonian founded the Land and ...

Zhanna Bagdasarov Editor When word of the Annual Armenian Film Festival gets out, films to be showcased at this community event begin to pour into the Armenian Studies Program office. Films with an Armenian theme, concerning Armenian issues, and/or those directed by Armenians arrive from around the country, as well as the world. This year was no different. Numerous interesting ...

Zhanna Bagdasarov Editor Meg, Yergoo, Yerek, Cha Cha Cha, repeated Tom Bozigian to a large group of student and community dancers during the weekend of February 2nd and 3rd. Dressed in comfortable clothes and shoes, participants of the seminar gathered at the Fresno State South Gym to learn Armenian folk-dances. Together with his wife and dance partner, Sheri, Bozigian demonstrated ...

Randy Baloian Special to Hye Sharzhoom It’s 9:00 am at the Armenian Community School of Fresno. In Miss Primavera’s second grade class Hakop Mardirossian, Joseph Colarian, Alena Kutumian, and Lauren Cooper sit poised along with the other 5 or 6 students, listening intently as the teacher quizzes them on the essentials of mathematics. From an adult’s perspective, each represents a ...

Staff Report A series of major art exhibits across France is marking the “Year of Armenia in France.” The program for the entire “Year of Armenia” includes around six-hundred events in more than forty cities all over France. The main purpose of the “Year of Armenia” is to represent Armenia to the world. Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and French ...

Staff Report Hrant Dink, a prominent Armenian journalist, and editor of the Armenian and Turkish language Agos newspaper, was assassinated on January 19th, in Istanbul. Born in Malatya, in 1954, he was a fearless defender of the right of free speech. For his efforts he was prosecuted numerous times in Turkey on the charge of “insulting Turkishness,” according to article ...

Ara Nalbandian Staff Writer On January 21st 2007, Taner Akçam, the author of the newly published book A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, was scheduled to speak at California State University, Fresno. However, on January 19th, Hrant Dink, editor of the Turkish-Armenian Agos weekly newspaper, was brutally gunned down in front of the Agos ...

Staff Report Dr. Dickran Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos, and archival gifts either offered personally or to the Program. L’Année de l’Arménie. The Year of Armenia in France September 21, 2006 – July 14, 2007. Armenian Children’s Camp of Tuzla. A story of Seizure, ...

Svetlana Bagadarov Staff Writer Question: “If you had the opportunity to visit Armenia, where would you visit first, and why?”   Name: Erin Surabian Major: Speech Pathology Year: Junior I would first like to visit Etchmiadzin, because I have learned so much about this church from many Armenian Studies courses.   Name: Hagop Ohanessian Major: Business Year: Sophomore If I ...