CONFERENCE ON ARMENIAN-ARABIC STUDIES

Panorama.am
16:22 16/03/2009

Armenian-Arabic conference will be launched in autumn joint with the
French Institute in Damascus, Syria, Ruben Safrastyan, the director
of Eastern Studies Institute of the National Academy of Sciences
told Panorama.am. According to him, currently they are working on the
preparatory work. R. Safrastyan said that the conference is devoted
to the Armenian-Arabic relations in the middle Ages. He said that the
conference is the evidence to the fact that Armenian Eastern Studies
have their special place in Europe that the French are willing to
study Armenian-Arabic relations. Armenian and French professors of
Arabic studies will make reports during the conference, and all
those reports will be published in a brochure. "Such conferences
are useful for Armenian youths as they get opportunity to share with
their experience," said. R. Safrastyan.