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Staff Report Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Director of the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State, participated in a workshop on Armenian literature held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 16-19. Organized by Dr. Kevork Bardakjian, Marie Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian Literature at the University of Michigan, the workshop brought together eighteen graduate students and scholars from throughout ...

Staff Report Dr. Bill Erysian, one of the original editors and co-founders of Hye Sharzhoom, shared some of his thoughts on the early years of the newspaper during the Armenian Studies Banquet held March 15. His remarks are reprinted below. It’s not difficult to recall what was happening on this campus, in this community and in the Diaspora thirty years ...

Hagop Ohanessian Staff Writer Friday, April 24, marked the 94th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, and Armenians all over the world came together to remember the past, even as students of Fresno State’s Armenian Students Organization (ASO) held their own commemorative event. Students from Fresno State, both Armenian and non-Armenian, and members of the community, came together in the Free ...

Staff Report For busy college students occupied with classes and jobs, participating in a workshop to promote participation in the political process may not seem to be high on their radar screen. But the Armenian Students Organization organized such a workshop to bring students face to face with the challenges that politics can bring. Yeghig Keshishian, Director of the Western ...

Staff Report The Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno held its 21st Annual Banquet on Sunday, March 15, at the Fort Washington Golf and Country Club in Fresno. There was an exciting feeling in the air as many notables joined guests for this special occasion. Fresno State President Dr. John Welty greeted the special guests at the Banquet: ...

By: Hagop Ohanessian As the Spring semester is coming to an end, the Armenian Students Organization, together with the Armenian Studies Program has continued to cosponsor several events. This semester we have had the privilege to hear three public lectures by Dr. George Bournoutian, who was appointed as the seventh Henry Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies for the ...

Staff Report Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos, and archival gifts either offered personally or to the Program. His Holiness Aram I, for the gift of his book Pour Un Monde Transforme [For a World Transformed]. Published in French. (Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate of ...

Pateel Mekhitarian Editor www.armenianchurch.net and www.armenianheritage.com The Internet is a great tool to find information concerning Armenian history, if one searches in the right places.There are a number of reliable sources which aid in the complete understanding of the Armenian culture, church, and history. A major struggle in the history of the Armenians was the maintenance of their Christian faith. ...

Staff Report The Fresno State Henry Madden Library reopened on Thursday, February 19, after being closed for construction for nearly two and half years. The new north wing of the Madden Library was constructed after the old north wing was demolished in August 2006. Fresno State President Dr. John Welty was on hand to open the library, along with Dean ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor The Repatriate: Love, Basketball, and the KGB, by Tom Mooradian. Seattle, WA: Moreradiant Publishing, 2008. 459 pages. Adventure. Danger. Romance. From the very first pages, Tom Mooradian’s newly published The Repatriate attracts the reader’s attention. One is a drawn into Mooradian’s unlikely thirteen years spent in Soviet Armenia, feeling his initial excitement at the move, to ...