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Thank You Donors Edward Alexander, Bethesda, MD George & Mary Atashkarian, Moraga Richard G. Barberian, PD, Burlingame in memory of Penny Markarian Barberian Arsinoe Baron, La Mesa Karl DeKlotz, Fresno in honor of Robert DeKlotz, M.D. Sahag & Mary Egoian, Fresno Betty Ann Hagopian, Fresno Mary Hokokian, Fresno Haig & Marcia Jamgotchian, Anaheim Diane and Larry Karabian, Shaver Lake Lilian ...

Staff Report Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Prof. Sergio La Porta, 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. AGBU Hye Geen, Pasadena, California, for a new book AGBU Hye Geen (Los Angeles, 2014) 322pp., in Armenian and English. ...

Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that the Thomas A. Kooyumjian Family Foundation has made a generous donation of $40,000 to the Armenian Studies Program and the Center for Armenian Studies. The gift will be earmarked for several purposes, including Fresno State student scholarships, support for the Armenian Genocide Monument on the Fresno State campus, ...

Lauren Chardukian Staff Writer 2015-one hundred years since the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Filmmaking began taking roots in society about that same time and since the rise in popularity of film, it has become one of the greatest media for expressing emotions and feelings, in ways that books and traditional artwork are unable to do. Dr. Myrna Douzjian, the Kazan Visiting ...

Tatevik Hovhannisyan Staff Writer Remembrance commemorations take many forms. The Armenian Genocide is often commemorated by Church ceremonies, marches and demonstrations, and public talks. This year, as the centenary of the Genocide is marked, one of the unique commemorative programs was a performance by the Fresno State New Music Ensemble, a student-run chamber group that organizes performances dedicated to the ...

Aramayis Orkusyan Staff Writer April 24, 2015 undoubtedly marked a symbolic day for Armenians worldwide as they commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Armen-ian Genocide. Consequently, significant efforts have been put forth to raise awareness and urge international recognition of the Genocide. More than just a matter of recognition, the Armenian Genocide is a question of morality and human rights ...

Staff Report The rapidly diminishing Armenian Christian community of Syria, and the still strong Armenian community of Lebanon was the focus of a lecture, “Armenians in the Midst of Civil Wars: Lebanonaand Syria Compared,” by Dr. Ara Sanjian, Director of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, on Tuesday, December 2, 2014. The lecture was part of the ...

Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that the Leon S. Peters Foundation has made a generous donation of $30,000 to the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State for 2015. This continues the tradition of the Peters Foundation in supporting the Armenian Studies Program Annual Lecture Series, as well as a variety of other activities, including ...

Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Prof. Sergio La Porta, 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. Jacqueline Agazarian, Fresno, for copies of the journal Raft and Armenian books. Edward Ashjian, Fresno, for a DVD and photos of the ...

Micheal Rettig Staff Writer It has been difficult for historians to reconstruct the daily lives of Armenians prior to the Genocide. Those who lived before 1915 could not conceive that their entire way of life was on the brink of extinction. Many of them felt no need to document their day-to-day lives, most likely imagining that they would go on ...