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Michael Rettig Editor Every year on April 24, the world watches from a distance as Armenians around the world march in the streets or gather at memorials to honor those who were killed. Every year, that distance seems to diminish, as high profile celebrities help to educate the world about the details surrounding the Genocide. Commemorative events are not only ...

Claire Kasaian Staff Writer On March 18, more than 200 students, faculty, administrators, and members of the community joined together at the Fort Washington Country Club for the Armenian Studies Program 30th Annual Banquet. The event celebrated the more than forty students who received Armenian Studies Program scholarships in 2017-2018. Students earning a minor in Armenian Studies, graduating seniors, and ...

Suzanna Ekmekchyan Staff Writer The Armenian Students Organization went on an outing to San Francisco during Spring Break and had an amazing experience traveling together to see so many great sites, such as the Golden Gate Bridge. ASO members embarked on their journey bright and early Monday morning, March 26. Once they arrived in San Francisco, they went to the ...

David Safrazian Staff Writer “My grandparents were survivors of the Armenian Genocide, so I wanted to make a movie about the human story of the Genocide rather than a documentary,” said Naré Mkrtchyan. On Friday, April 20, 2018, Mkrtchyan, director of “The Other Side of Home,” was at Fresno State to premiere her film and then follow with an audience ...

Michael Rettig Editor As the semester draws to an end, three Fresno State students studying abroad at the American University of Armenia are preparing to return to Fresno. Cole Egoian, Stephen Gonzalez, and Yervand Boyajyan were awarded the Kashian Family Scholarship to spend the Spring 2018 semester in Yerevan. This scholarship provided them the opportunity to not only study at ...

Michael Rettig Editor Dr. Yektan Türkyılmaz has had a busy semester since his appointment as the 14th Kazan Visiting Professor at Fresno State for Spring 2018. In addition to teaching a course on “Armenian Urbanism,” and preparing for three public lectures, Dr. Türkyılmaz is spending his time in Fresno preparing his dissertation for publication as a monograph. Dr. Türkyılmaz grew ...

Staff Report Avag Simonyan, Director of the Saroyan House Museum, Meroujan Minassian, Project architect and founder of the Storaket Architectural Studio, and Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, paid a visit to Fresno City Hall to meet with Mayor Lee Brand on Friday, February 23 and to visit with Fresno City Council President Esmerelda Soria on Monday, February ...

Staff Report Ghevond, the only contem-porary historian of eighth century Armenia, sheds important light on the early experience of the Armenians with the Arab Caliphate. It was for this reason that Dr. Sergio La Porta and Dr. Alison Vacca decided to collaborate on a new English translation of Ghevond. They shared some of their efforts with an audience at a ...

Katrina Bissett Staff Writer On Friday, March 2, 2018, the Chilingirian-Bagratuni-Hakobyan Trio performed on the Fresno State campus. The concert was co-presented by the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts International Chamber Music Series, Orpheus, and the Armenian Studies Program. The featured musicians were Levon Chilingirian on violin, Suren Bagratuni on cello, and Karén Hakobyan on piano. They performed a set ...

Staff Report The Donald Garabedian Endowed Scholarship in Armenian Studies was established in December 2017, with a generous donation of $26,000 by Mr. Garabedian. Armenian Studies Program Berberian Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian welcomed the new scholarship fund, saying “Donations such as these assist students in their studies. The Program is pleased to accept Mr. Garabedian’s gift, which will benefit ...