SANAMYAN, MOURADIAN TO DISCUSS TURKEY TRIPS AT ALMA
By:Armenian Weekly Staff

armenianweekly.com
Tue, May 4 2010

WATERTOWN, Mass.–Armenian Reporter editor Emil Sanamyan and Armenian
Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian will talk about their recent trips to
Turkey at the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) on Wed.,
May 12, at 7:30 p.m. The event will be moderated by Marc Mamigonian,
NAASR’s director of academic affairs.

Kurdish mothers commemorate the Armenian Genocide on April 24, 2010 in
Beyoglu, Istanbul. (Photo by Khatchig Mouradian) Sanamyan and Mouradian
visited Istanbul, Ankara, Kars, and Ani in March 2010. During their
visit, they met and interviewed Turkish political leaders (including
Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu),
as well as policymakers and journalists.

In April, Mouradian made a second trip to Turkey, giving a
commemoration lecture in Istanbul on April 24 and taking part in
a symposium on the Armenian Genocide and reparations in Ankara on
April 25.

During the lecture at ALMA, which is organized by the ARF
"Sardarabad" Gomideh of Boston, Sanamyan and Mouradian will discuss
these trips. Mouradian’s account of April 24-25 in Turkey will be
accompanied by a slide show of images from all commemoration events
and gatherings in Istanbul and Ankara.

Sanamyan is the editor of the Armenian Reporter. After joining
the publication in 2006, he first worked as the Washington Bureau
chief. From 2000-06, Sanamyan was with the Armenian Assembly of
America as research officer, and before that worked as an aide to
Artsakh’s representative in the U.S. A native of Baku, Sanamyan was
raised there and in Moscow, and was educated at the University of
Arizona and at George Washington University.

Mouradian is a journalist, writer, and translator. He was an editor
of the Lebanese-Armenian Aztag Daily from 2000-07, when he moved
to Boston and became the editor of the Armenian Weekly. He is a
Ph.D. student in Holocaust and genocide studies at Clark University. He
has lectured extensively and participated in conferences in Armenia,
Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, and
the U.S. He has presented several papers on genocide and the media
at academic conferences.

ALMA is located at 65 Main St. in Watertown, Mass.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress