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By Shelley Kutumian Staff Writer The family owned and operated Marat’s Restaurant located at the corner of Cedar and Shepherd was the subject of a Hye Sharzhoom undercover food critique that proved the restaurant to be a place to go to have a pleasant dining experience of great Armenian and Middle Eastern food. With no previous knowledge of the service, ...

Virtual Matenadaran Address: http://www.matenadaran.am Brief Summary: The Matenadaran is one of the oldest and richest museums located in Yerevan, Armenia. It holds a huge collection of 11,000 manuscripts as well as many historical Armenian books and modern documents. The Virtual Matenadaran is the only web site that shares many of its priceless holdings. The site has a “virtual vault” that ...

By Vahan Papyan The Republic of Armenia is one of three internationally recognized states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) in Transcaucasia, the southernmost area of the former USSR. It is 11,620 square miles in area, slightly larger than the state of Maryland. It has a population of about 3.3 million (with an additional 400,000 Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan and Karabagh), of ...

The following two reports, on Karabagh and Armenia, were submitted as part of an assignment in Barlow Der Mugrdechian’s Armenian Studies 10, Introduction to Armenian Studies course. By Mitch DeFreitas Karabagh is a country located between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Middle Eastern part of Asia. In this paper, I am going to present to you several news stories about ...

By Jack Arikian Staff Writer Armenian culture dates back centuries, but little is mentioned in historical textbooks. Fresno State prides itself in being one of the very few campuses nationwide that has an Armenian Studies Program. Since its inception, the Fresno State program has provided a unique opportunity for college students to enlighten themselves about Armenian language and history and ...

By Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor It was a cold and snowy New Year’s Eve in Etchmiadzin as the 1700th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Christianity as the State Religion of Armenia was ushered in with great ceremony. Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, sixth from left, Primate of the Diocese of Canada and Executive Director of the Holy Etchmiadzin 1700th Anniversary Committee meeting ...

Staff Report The Society for Armenian Studies announced the results of recently held elections and the new Executive Council includes Fresno State’s very own Barlow Der Mugrdechian, President; Peter Cowe, Vice President; Levon Chorbajian, Treasurer; Houri Berberian, Secretary; along with council members-without-portfolio Robert Hewsen, Richard Hovannisian, and Dickran Kouymjian. Dennis Papazian, as last year’s President, will serve a one year ...

Staff Report A volume of scholarly essays devoted to the father of Armenian history, Movses of Khoren, is the latest contribution to Armenian studies by Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies at CSUF. Traditionally, Movses Khorenats’i is considered a fifth century author, part of Armenia’s golden age, though some scholars, mostly in the west, attribute ...

By Sevag Tateosian Staff Writer There has been an Armenian Students Organization in existence at California State University, Fresno for more than 30 years. Year after year the ASO provides students with a place to meet one another and to spend time doing fun and stress-relieving activities. A new executive board welcomes the 2001 spring semester. The group is lead ...

By Arpik Paraghamian Staff Writer Since January 2001, Mikael Halebyan and Vahan Papyan, both juniors and long-time friends from Yerevan, Armenia, have been calling Fresno “home.” The 19-year-old Agricultural Business majors, who attend the Armenian Agriculture Academy, were selected to be part of the Armenian Student Exchange Program with California State University, Fresno, after successfully passing a formal interview and ...