UCLA FACULTY EXPERTS ADVISORY: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REMEMBERED

UCLA
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April 20 2009
Los Angeles

April 24 is the annual Armenian genocide remembrance day, which
commemorates the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by the
Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. Many in the Armenian community
hope President Obama will support a resolution currently pending
in Congress to officially recognize the killings as genocide. UCLA
has experts.

Richard Hovannisian, professor of Armenian and Near Eastern history, is
an authority on the Armenian genocide and diaspora. He is the author of
the canonic four-volume history "Armenia on the Road to Independence."

Media contact: Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 |
msullivan1@support.ucla.edu

David N. Myers, professor of history and director of the UCLA Center
for Jewish Studies, is an expert on modern Jewish intellectual
and cultural history. He has written on both the Holocaust and the
Armenian genocide.