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Virginia Meltickian of Fresno, California, has donated an archive of photos and articles about the Armenian community in China. Her “Memory” Album encompasses the time period from the beginning of the last century to the 1950s, when the Armenians had to leave China due to the change in political situation of that country. Some Armenians went to Armenia, others to ...

Staff Report Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, Haig and Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies, announced that Albert and Isabelle Kabrielian of Fresno, California have established two scholarship funds, the Albert and Isabelle Kabrielian Endowed Scholarship for Armenian Studies and the Genevieve Tatoian Endowed Scholarship for Armenian Studies, to benefit students enrolling in Armenian Studies courses. When asked why they chose to ...

Mitchell Peters Staff Writer California State University, Fresno, was honored to host Hayden Herrera, the author of an extensive new biography, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), telling the story of one of the vanguards of modern painting of the twentieth century, Arshile Gorky. In her talk, sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and Armenian Students ...

Staff Report L to R: Hovsep Kocaoghlanian, Gevork Aristakesyan, Marine Ekezyan, ASO Vice-President Armen Postoyan, Ani Estephanian, Karabagh President Arkady Ghougassian, Barseg Abanyan, Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program, ASO President Dikran Chekian, Aline Postoyan, and Rosie Bedrosian, Principal of the Armenian Community School. President Ghougassian was in Fresno to attend a banquet in his honor organized by ...

Alex Bunch Staff Writer This year the Armenian Studies Organization got off to another great start. After holding annual elections, the first regular meeting of the year was held at the new Dominion Pizza. Planned ASO events were discussed, including a Halloween party, a canned food drive, the 5th Annual Film Festival (last year’s Film Festival was a huge success), ...

Staff Report The Fresno Yeprad lodge of the Knights of Vartan held an “Armenian Forum” on Friday, October 17. Invited speakers for the evening were Deacon Armen Devejian, Press Secretary of the Catholicossate of Holy Etchmiadzin and Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State. The audience was divided into two groups, and each speaker gave a ...

Sevag Tateosian Editor From The Top-50 of USA Today, to #7 in the October 13th issue of Publisher’s Weekly, to #4 on the New York Times Best Seller List, Dr. Peter Balakian’s book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response has created a buzz among the Armenian community. I had the opportunity to witness this buzz first hand ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Two groups of faculty and administrators from the Faculty of Economics at Yerevan State University visited Fresno State from October 30th to November 26th. On October 30th, Dr. Hayk Sargsyan, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, accompanied by Dr. Toros Torosyan, Chair of the Department of International Economics, arrived in Fresno to spend an intensive nine ...

Hakop Tataryan Staff Writer For the past several years, Armenians around the valley have tuned into the Hye Oozh show, airing on KFSR 90.7 FM every Saturday morning from 9 am until noon, to enjoy an array of Armenian music. Now they can add another hour to their listening pleasure as a new radio show called All Things Armenian has ...

Mitchell Peters Staff Writer With the newest addition to his long list of published works, Peter Balakian visited California State University, Fresno, to discuss the major issues of the Armenian Genocide in his powerful new book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response published by HarperCollins. The lecture was held in the Wahlberg Recital Hall at Fresno State ...