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Suren Oganessian Staff Writer Can Armenia one day finally live in peace with its neighbor to the west? Historian Ara Sarafian would answer with an emphatic “yes,” even while people on both sides of the long-simmering ethnic strife in the region might initially express doubt. Director of the Gomidas Institute in London, Sarafian delivered the first lecture of the Armenian ...

Denise Altounian Staff Writer Each year Fresno State honors its most distinguished undergraduates with the presti-gious Deans Medalist Award. This award honors the outstanding students within the university’s eight schools as well as the Division of Student Affairs. The medalists are nominated and selected based on academic excellence, community involvement, and other achievements at Fresno State. This year’s Deans Medalist ...

Special to Hye Sharzhoom Misak Ohanian Chief Executive Officer Centre for Armenian Information & Advice Hayashen, London On Sunday, July 7, 2013, Professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Coordinator of the Armenian Studies Program and Director of the Center for Armenian Studies at Fresno State gave an illustrated public lecture in Hayashen entitled “From Armenia to California: The Odyssey of the Fresno ...

Suren Oganessian Staff Writer One little-discussed aspect of the Armenian Genocide was addressed when historian Ümit Kurt visited Fresno State on September 17 to speak on “The Emergence of the New Wealthy Class between 1915-1922: The Seizure of Armenian Property by the Local Elites in Aintab” as part of the Armenian Studies Program Fall Lecture Series; what happened to Armenian ...

Tatevik Hovhannisyan Staff Writer The Armenian Students Organization (ASO) has officially kicked off a fresh and exciting semester, full of entertaining events and interesting activities. With the start of the Fall semester, a new executive body was elected at the first general meeting held on Thursday, September 12. The meeting brought back returning students along with first-time freshmen who were ...

Staff Report Newly appointed Fresno State President Dr. Joseph I. Castro and his wife Mary, together with Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Andrew Hoff, Dean Vida Samiian of the College of Arts and Humanities, and Associate Dean José Diaz visited the Armenian Studies Program on Friday, September 20. They were greeted by Armenian Studies Program Director ...

Staff Report David of Sassoun: Critical Studies on the Armenian Epic (The Press at California State University, Fresno, 2013), 228 pages, a collection of essays by the world’s foremost scholars on the great oral epic of Armenia, edited by Dickran Kouymjian and Barlow Der Mugrdechian, has just been published as the newest addition to the Armenian Series of Fresno State’s ...

Editor Tamar Karkazian Layout Barlow Der Mugrdechian Photographer Barlow Der Mugrdechian Staff Writers Denise Altounian Andrew Esguerra Tatevik Hovhannisyan Aleek Karkazian Suren Oganessian Ruzan Orkusyan Emma Shaljyan Marine Vardanyan Advisor Barlow Der Mugrdechian barlowd@csufresno.edu  

Ruzan Orkusyan Staff Writer Documentary and fairytale, film and animation–the different genres piece together to paint a startling truth of Turkish denial and revisionism regarding the Armenian Genocide. Mathieu Zeitindjioglou’s movie “The Son of the Olive Merchant” was screened as part of the CineCulture film series and class on Friday, April 12, and was co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program. ...

Staff Report The Fresno County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution recognizing the independence of Karabagh and also recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Fifth from left is the Consul General of Armenia, Grigor Hovhannissian. Next to him center, is Supervisor Andreas Borgeas, author of the resolution, with students and faculty from Fresno State. Photo: ASP Archive