PRESS RELEASE
Armenian Studies Program
Gloria Caudill, Administrator
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
gcaudill@umich.edu
(734) 763-0622

DR. DADOYAN DISCUSSES ISLAM AND THE ARMENIANS
At the University of Michigan

PARADIGMS OF A NEAR EASTERN DIALECTIC ON JANUARY 27, 2009, AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR

Professor Seta Dadoyan will be the featured speaker on January 27,
2009, at a University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, public lecture event
sponsored by the Armenian Studies program at that
University. Dr. Dadoyan will speak on "Islam and the Armenians:
Paradigms of a near Eastern Dialectic."

Dr. Seta B. Dadoyan is currently teaching courses at St. Nersess
Armenian Seminary at New Rochelle, NY and Queens College, CUNY. She
was professor of cultural studies at the American University of Beirut
1986-2005 and had previously taught at Haigazian University and the
Lebanese-American University.

The focus of her research and publications is the study of Armenian
social-political and intellectual cultures in their interactive
aspects within the Near Eastern world, both medieval and modern.

Dr. Dadoyan has published close to fifty articles in scholarly
journals in Armenian and English. She is the author of five books,
including Pages of West Armenian Philosophical Thought (Beirut, 1987),
John of Erzinjan – Sources of his ‘Views from the Writings of Islamic
Philosophers’: Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa (Beirut, 1991), The Fatimid
Armenians: Cultural and Political Interactions in the Near East
(Brill, 1997).

Professor Dadoyan’s The Armenians and Islam: Paradigms of Medieval
Interactions, her opus magnum, will soon be published by E. J. Brill.

In addition to her public appearance, Dr. Dadoyan will also deliver
two lectures for a new course being taught by Prof. Gerard Libaridian,
"Islam and Armenians" this semester at the University of Michigan.