PRESS RELEASE
Department of Armenian Studies, Haigazian University
Beirut, Lebanon
Contact: Ara Sanjian
Tel: 961-1-353011
Email: arasan@haigazian.edu.lb
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HAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ARMENIAN STUDIES

invites to a lecture on

The History of the Armenians in the Orontes River Middle Valley
(in Armenian)

by

Hagop Cholakian
(Aleppo)

Friday, November 5, 2004 – 7:30 p.m.
Haigazian University Auditorium – Kantari, Beirut

N.B. Please accept this message as a personal invitation.

Hagop Cholakian is an educator, researcher and poet based in Aleppo,
Syria. His lecture at Haigazian University on the history of the
Armenian communities that have lived since the Middle Ages in the
north-western regions of the territory of modern Syria will be based on
parts of his doctoral dissertation, which he defended at the Institute
of Archeology and Ethnography at the Armenian National Academy of
Sciences in Yerevan in 2002.

Haigazian University is a liberal arts institution of higher learning,
established in Beirut in 1955. For more information about its activities
you are welcome to visit its web-site at <;.
For additional information on the activities of its Department of
Armenian Studies, contact Ara Sanjian at <arasan@haigazian.edu.lb>