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Carnia Karakashian What is your favorite aspect of the Armenian culture?     The family values.         The atmosphere that is created when you are with Armenians.       The sense of community that Armenians have retained through the centuries, and even into modern times.         The life long friends.       ...

Staff Report Over 1,000 U.S. officials attended a special presentation of Atom Egoyan’s new movie “Ararat” on Tuesday, October 8, in Washington DC. Members of the US Congress, officials of the US Department of State, World Bank, representatives of the Armenian Assembly of America (AAA), as well as Armenia’s Ambassador to the USA attended the presentation. Meanwhile, in Yerevan, Egoyan, ...

M. Joyce Abdulian Special to Hye Sharzhoom California State University, Fresno has been one of five beneficiaries of the Yervant, Rose, and Hovannes Levonian Educational Fund which provides scholarships for deserving Armenian students since 1985. Yervant Hovhanness Levonian was my uncle. Each time I receive the Hye Sharzoom list of scholarship recipients, I feel great joy knowing so many students ...

Staff Report Less than a few weeks after the California State legislature voted in both chambers in favor of establishing a California international trade and investment office in the Republic of Armenia, Governor Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 1657, introduced by Senator Jack Scott (D-Pasadena). California will now become the first state in the United States to have a trade ...

Staff Report The Armenian Studies Program, as part of its continuing NIS College and University Partnership Program with Yerevan State University’s Faculty of Economics, contributed $20,000 in computer equipment to establish a 2nd computer lab. The computer equipment arrived in Yerevan in late September and were ready to be used by students and faculty by the beginning of October. The ...

Staff Report Name: Michael Sonny Kazarian Age: 24 Major: Business Entrepreneurship What are your plans after graduation? I would like to utilize my entrepreneurial skills by continuing to pursue a business in the automobile industry. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? I see myself with a family and doing well in business. What was the most influential part ...

Chris Tozlian Staff Writer To say that Dr. Dickran Kouymjian remained busy during his year-long sabbatical would be an understatement. Dr. Kouymjian, Haig & Isabel Berberian Endowed Professor of Armenian Studies, spent the last academic year on foreign soil. By his own admission, he passed most of his time in the libraries of Paris, France, doing the research and scholarship ...

Tatevik Ekezian Staff Writer Dr. Harutyun Aleksanyan from Yerevan, Armenia, is visiting California State University, Fresno on an IREX Contemporary Issues Fellowship. His three-month stay, formally hosted by the Armenian Studies Program, began August 29, following a three day orientation in Washington DC. Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program is acting as faculty sponsor/advisor for Dr. Aleksanyan while ...

Dr. Harutyun Aleksanyan Irex contemporary issues visiting fellow It is crucial that for building and strengthening civil society in Armenia it is increasingly important to develop the non-governmental organization (NGO) sector. This truth is becoming more evident for communities and societies living in a post-crisis and transitional period. In former Soviet times (Armenia was one of the fifteen Soviet Republics) ...

Staff Report Dr. Sonya Mirzoyan, Director of the National Archives of the Republic of Armenia, visited the Armenian Studies Program on Friday, September 13. Dr. Barbara Merguerian, Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies for the Fall 2002 semester, introduced Dr. Mirzoyan at a small reception. In attendance were Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, Director of the Armenian Studies Program and Barlow Der ...