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Staff Report The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held its annual membership meeting on November 23, 2002 in Washington DC. The meeting was held in conjunction with the 36th Annual Conference of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA). Founded in 1974, SAS is an international organization which represents more than 200 scholars and teachers involved in the field of Armenian ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Three faculty members from the Craig School of Business at Fresno State: Tom Burns, Diane Decker, and Elizabeth Shields, visited the Faculty of Economics of Yerevan State University in October 2002. Their visit was part of the three-year Newly Independent States (NIS) College and University Partnership Program grant received by Fresno State in 1999. The grant ...

Tamara Karakashian Editor On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, the Armenian Studies Program and the Armenian Students Organization were honored to have His Excellency Leonidas T. Chrysanthopoulos, Ambassador of Greece to Canada, speak as part of the ASP Fall Lecture Series. Ambassador Chrysantho-poulos had been the Greek Ambassador to Armenia in 1993-1994, and after his re-assignment to Ottawa, he started compiling ...

Chris Tozlian Staff Writer An important contribution to Armenian studies, the Album of Armenian Paleography, was published by Aarhus University Press of Denmark in November 2002. The authors of this reference work, Professors Michael Stone, Henning Lehmann, and Dickran Kouymjian, spent twelve years on the production of the Album. Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies ...

Tamara Karakashian Editor For years Armenians around the world have been anticipating the production of a major motion picture on the Armenian Genocide Now they have it in full force. Canadian film director/producer Atom Egoyan has created a masterpiece, which opened at Edwards Theatre in Fresno, on Wednesday, November 27, 2002. Fresno Armenians gathered at 10AM on opening morning to ...

Staff Report College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Bachelor of Science Michael Hrant Harutinian Lisa Ann Shanoian Charles Hagop Sislian College of Arts and Humanities Bachelor of Arts Jason Salvador Anaforian Ronald Lawrence Dzerigian Brian Bruce Ekmanian Aaron Philip Emerzian Kathryn Ann Gulian Rosemary Levon Kalpakian Carlo Paul Kelejian Cydney Denise Omartian David Matthew Shabaglian Jonathan Daniel Shabaglian Maria Elizabeth ...

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Staff Report Dr. Dickran Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books and archival gifts. Armenian National Committee Publication, Watertown, MA, for the copy of the booklet “A Century of Human Rights Violations in Turkey.” Dr. Arra Avakian, Fresno, CA, for the complete set of the Armenian Digest journals. ...

Carina Karakashian & Nyrie Karkazian Staff Writers When most people think of a restaurant owned by an Armenian they immediately think of kebob, pilav, and paklava. But we have found one Armenian who serves something a little bit different.  He serves pizza. Ferris Gabriel, owner of the two Dominion pizzerias located in Fresno, opened his very first franchise just about ...