Armenian writer to visit
By Staff Reporter

Cyprus Mail, Cyprus
May 18 2005

PETER Balakian, author of the New York Times bestseller The Burning
Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response will be making
his first visit to Cyprus this week before heading for Beirut for a
series of lectures.

The prize-wining memoirist, poet and scholar is the author of seven
other books, including Black Dog of Fate, a memoir of growing up in
an All-American suburb and later uncovering the facts of his family’s
fate during the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

“The Armenian Genocide was the greatest human rights issue of its
day – Theodore Roosevelt called it the ‘greatest crime of the war’
– but twenty years later it was all but forgotten,” Balakian said in
a recent interview.

Balakian will give a lecture on Friday at 8pm at the Armenian
Prelature’s Vahram Utudjian Hall on Armenia Street in Nicosia.

The lecture will be on The Armenian Genocide and the Humanitarian
Response. This will be followed by an open discussion and a reception
during which the author will sign copies of his books.