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 you to a lecture on

‘Turkish-Armenian Dialog: Problems and Potential’
[in Armenian]

by

Gerard J. Libaridian
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Haigazian University Auditorium, Mexique Street, Kantari, Beirut

Please accept this message as a personal invitation.

N.B. Prof. Gerard Jirair Libaridian is a historian, currently teaching
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He specializes in Armenia, the
Caucasus, and the Near East. His most recent publications include
‘Modern Armenia: People, Nation, State’ (2004) and ‘The Challenge of
Statehood. Armenian Political Thinking since Independence’ (1999). He is
currently working on two new books: one on Mountainous Karabakh and
another on the ideology of Armenian liberation, 16th-19th centuries.
From 1991 to 1997, Libaridian served as a high-ranking member of the
administration of Levon Ter-Petrossian, the first president of the
post-Soviet, independent Republic of Armenia. He was deeply involved, in
that capacity, in the negotiations by Armenia with both Turkey and
Azerbaijan.

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 <;.