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Mari Koshkakaryan Staff Writer Imagine roaming through the streets of your hometown that once was a bright place, where you enjoyed an outing with your family, returning one day to see nothing but destruction, and encountering the corpses of your own family members, whose lives were unjustly taken away along with the lives of 1.5 million others during the Armenian ...

Pateel Mekhitarian Editor Armenian American Cultural Association www.aacainc.org The mission of the Armenian American Cultural Association (AACA) is “to promote cultural, educational, and scientific endeavors between the United States and the Republic of Armenia and to sponsor health and humanitarian projects for the people of Armenia.” The Arlington, Virginia-based AACA is the United States sponsor of the Armenian American Wellness ...

Staff Report This month, Dr. La Porta gave a series of talks to local and regional groups on Armenian topics. On April 13, he spoke at the annual dinner in commemoration of Armenian Martyr’s month for the First Armenian Presbyterian Church Men’s fellowship. He spoke about the significance of martyrdom in the early Armenian Church. He drew attention to the ...

Evelyn Demirchian Staff Writer On Thursday, March 11, the Armenian Studies Program’s Eighth Kazan Visiting Professor, Dr. Abraham Terian, gave an in-depth lecture on the subject of early literary responses to the Armenian Genocide. First responses of those who lived through the Genocide were written accounts of their experiences. Most of these were detailed and drawn straight from the fresh ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Amazing. Forceful. Memorable. These are only a few of the adjectives to describe the unique address given by Dr. Taner Akçam at the Armenian Genocide Commemoration attended by the San Joaquin Valley Armenian community on Saturday, April 24. This was not the first time an academic has spoken to a Genocide Commemoration audience, but it was ...

Tamar Karkazian Staff Writer If one were present at the Fort Washington Golf and Country Club Banquet Hall on March 29, 2010, they would have found their eyes scanning over a crowd of 200 students, parents, professors, and members of the Armenian community all dressed in fitted suits, tailored pants, and detailed dresses. They were gathered for the Armenian Studies ...

Editor Pateel Mekhitarian Layout Barlow Der Mugrdechian Photographers Barlow Der Mugrdechian Erica Magarian Staff Writers Evelyn Demirchian Tamar Karkazian Mari Koshkakaryan Armen Melidonian Advisor Barlow Der Mugrdechian barlowd@csufresno.edu

Staff report Armenian Studies Program and Armenian Students Organization Campus commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Friday, April 23  • Noon • Free Speech Area • Fresno State Main Speaker: Fresno City Councilman Andreas Borgeas The Armenian Students Organization is seeking photos of Genocide survivors. Please send photos by email, as a digital file. Include the sender’s ...

Staff Report Friday, April 16 • 7:30 PM Dr. Bedross Der Matossian, MIT “The Taboo within the Taboo: The Fate of the ‘Armenian Capital’ in the End of the Ottoman Empire” One of the marginalized topics in the historiography of the Ottoman Empire in general and that of the Armenian Genocide in particular is the fate of the “Armenian economy” ...

Hazel Antaramian-Hofman Staff Writer The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State, in collaboration with the Fresno Arts Council, the City of Fresno, and the Armenian Museum, will host in the month of May a long awaited exhibition of Armenian-American artist, Varaz Samuelian. The work will be displayed on the second floor of City Hall. A reception and opening of the ...