ARMENIAN CULTURAL WEEK OPENED IN STATE UNIVERSITY OF ALEPPO

ALEPPO, MAY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. On May 15, the Armenia Cultural Week
solemny opened at the Aleppo State University. The University Student
Union organized it in cooperation with the Berio Armenian diocese
primacy. This event was the last one in the chain of the cultural
events held in Aleppo during the days of exorcism of the 90th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide: performances of the Yerevan
“Sanctus” spiritual songs quartet, art critic Shahen Khachatrian’s
letures on the theme “Echo of the Armenian Genocide in Armenian
Painters’ Works”, the exhibition of 90 Armenian and foreign painters
concerning the Genocide, the exhibition of natural-sized copies of
Jansem’s works kept in the Yerevan Armenian Genocide Museum. After
the exhibition the copies will always be exhibited in the museum of
the Der Zor Armenian chapel. As Noyan Tapan was informed from the
RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information Department, the Armenian
Cultural Week started with an ethnographic exhibition which was opened
by Doctor Ahmad Habbun, the Secretary of the Baas Party of the Aleppo
University, Bishop Shahan Sargsian, the Berio diocese primate, and
Armen Melkonian, the RA Consulor General to Aleppo. The program also
includes a number of lectures, concerts, “round tables.”