PRESS RELEASE
Glendale Public Library
222 East Harvard Street
Glendale CA 91205
Tel: 818-548-2030
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Glendale, CA – Ara Sarafian will discuss Accursed Years, Yervant
Odian’s remarkable account of the Armenian Genocide, at the Glendale
Public Library on Wednesday, April 1, at 222 East Harvard Street,
Glendale. The lecture starts at 8:00 pm, admission is free. The event is
organized by The Tekeyan Cultural Association and Glendale Public
Library. The book is written in English and the program will be
presented in English.

Yervant Odian’s survival and escape allowed him to tell his own story
and give insights into the fate of others. `Odian’s facility with
the language of the massacres =85 leaves the truth unaltered, =85
doesn’t aim for individuality or the most aesthetically perfect, but
puts truth before us as it is, doesn’t touch it, doesn’t change it,
doesn’t dilute it with literary style,’ states Scholar Krikor
Beledian in the book’s introduction.

Ara Sarafian is an archival scholar specializing on late Ottoman and
modern Armenian history. He is the author and editor of a number of
works, including "United States Official Records on the Armenian
Genocide, 1915-17." He is currently the director of the Gomidas
Institute in London.

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CONTACT Elizabeth Grigorian, (818) 548-3288,
EGrigorian@ci.glendale.ca.us