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ARMENIAN REVIEW APPOINTS NEW ASSISTANT EDITOR, PUBLISHES RECENT ISSUE
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Thursday, October 10th, 2013
Dr. Talar Chahinian joins the Armenian Review as assistant editor
WATERTOWN, Mass.--The Spring-Summer 2013 issue of the Armenian Review
was published earlier this month. The most recent issue includes
articles ranging from historic textual analysis to current political
issues.
In the first article of the current issue, Albert Stepanyan reexamines
and analyzes sections from Moses Khorenati's History of the Armenians.
The analysis not only focuses on the content of the sections from the
Khorenati's work, but also dwells into epistemological and semantic
interpretations of the work by looking at Greek and other Armenian
sources.
The second piece, authored by Rouben Shougarian, is an account of a
diplomat's assessment of Turkish-Armenian Track I and II diplomacies.
The piece offers a survey of bilateral relations and the context
in which the two countries attempted to have rapprochement and
normalization of relation but without much success.
The third and fourth pieces are a dialogue between Taner Akcam on the
one hand and Ugur Umit Ungör and Mehmet Polatel on the other. The
dialogue starts with a review essay by Akcam examining and critiquing
Ungör's and Polatel's book Confiscation and Destruction: The Young
Turk Seizure of Armenian Property. In the lengthy essay, Akcam tries
to deconstruct and point out some of the issues which make the book
problematic. In their response, Ungör and Polatel respond to the
critique and go even further by providing more detailed explanations
about their research and methodology. This exchange should prove to be
quite interesting for our readership as it is not often that scholars
working on Armenian issues engage in a critique of their work in an
academic forum.
The recent issue of the journal also features book reviews and review
essays by Levon Chorbajian, who reviewed four books dealing with the
Armenian Genocide and its aftermath; Lerna Ekmekcioglu whose review
essay of the book dealing with the memoirs of Levon Yotnakhparian
provides a unique insight into the life of a prolific individual and
helps re-read those memories in the context of Armenian Genocide
literature; Levon Saryan's review of a recent book on Tigranes II
and Vartan Matiossian's review of Garegin Nzdeh's selected works,
complete this quite diverse issue.
The latest issue of the Armenian Review is also one that welcomes Dr.
Talar Chahinian to the editorial team as an assistant editor. Dr.
Chahinian holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and
lectures in the Department of Comparative World Literature at
California State University, Long Beach. Her current book project
examines the Western Armenian literary tradition within the World
Literature model, by comparatively analyzing the Post-WWI and
Post-WWII literary centers of Paris and Beirut, respectively,
and their intellectual exchange with literary and journalistic
institutions in Soviet Armenia, North America, and the greater
Middle-East. She contributes regularly to the online journal,
Critics' Forum, and directs the Saroyan Project, which works to
enhance Armenian language instruction in Chamlian Armenian School
in Southern California. Dr. Chahinian's joining of the Review team
will expand the journal's geographic reach as well as its academic
disciplinary horizons.
The current issue of the Armenian Review may be ordered by itself
or as part of a subscription to the journal from its website,
www.armenianreview.org. All subscription, order, and renewal
inquiries should be addressed to the publisher by writing to the
Armenian Review, Inc., 80 Bigelow Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472-2012;
by emailing [email protected]; or by calling (617) 926-4037.
http://asbarez.com/114908/armenian-review-appoints-new-assistant-editor-publishes-recent-issue/
Thursday, October 10th, 2013
Dr. Talar Chahinian joins the Armenian Review as assistant editor
WATERTOWN, Mass.--The Spring-Summer 2013 issue of the Armenian Review
was published earlier this month. The most recent issue includes
articles ranging from historic textual analysis to current political
issues.
In the first article of the current issue, Albert Stepanyan reexamines
and analyzes sections from Moses Khorenati's History of the Armenians.
The analysis not only focuses on the content of the sections from the
Khorenati's work, but also dwells into epistemological and semantic
interpretations of the work by looking at Greek and other Armenian
sources.
The second piece, authored by Rouben Shougarian, is an account of a
diplomat's assessment of Turkish-Armenian Track I and II diplomacies.
The piece offers a survey of bilateral relations and the context
in which the two countries attempted to have rapprochement and
normalization of relation but without much success.
The third and fourth pieces are a dialogue between Taner Akcam on the
one hand and Ugur Umit Ungör and Mehmet Polatel on the other. The
dialogue starts with a review essay by Akcam examining and critiquing
Ungör's and Polatel's book Confiscation and Destruction: The Young
Turk Seizure of Armenian Property. In the lengthy essay, Akcam tries
to deconstruct and point out some of the issues which make the book
problematic. In their response, Ungör and Polatel respond to the
critique and go even further by providing more detailed explanations
about their research and methodology. This exchange should prove to be
quite interesting for our readership as it is not often that scholars
working on Armenian issues engage in a critique of their work in an
academic forum.
The recent issue of the journal also features book reviews and review
essays by Levon Chorbajian, who reviewed four books dealing with the
Armenian Genocide and its aftermath; Lerna Ekmekcioglu whose review
essay of the book dealing with the memoirs of Levon Yotnakhparian
provides a unique insight into the life of a prolific individual and
helps re-read those memories in the context of Armenian Genocide
literature; Levon Saryan's review of a recent book on Tigranes II
and Vartan Matiossian's review of Garegin Nzdeh's selected works,
complete this quite diverse issue.
The latest issue of the Armenian Review is also one that welcomes Dr.
Talar Chahinian to the editorial team as an assistant editor. Dr.
Chahinian holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and
lectures in the Department of Comparative World Literature at
California State University, Long Beach. Her current book project
examines the Western Armenian literary tradition within the World
Literature model, by comparatively analyzing the Post-WWI and
Post-WWII literary centers of Paris and Beirut, respectively,
and their intellectual exchange with literary and journalistic
institutions in Soviet Armenia, North America, and the greater
Middle-East. She contributes regularly to the online journal,
Critics' Forum, and directs the Saroyan Project, which works to
enhance Armenian language instruction in Chamlian Armenian School
in Southern California. Dr. Chahinian's joining of the Review team
will expand the journal's geographic reach as well as its academic
disciplinary horizons.
The current issue of the Armenian Review may be ordered by itself
or as part of a subscription to the journal from its website,
www.armenianreview.org. All subscription, order, and renewal
inquiries should be addressed to the publisher by writing to the
Armenian Review, Inc., 80 Bigelow Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472-2012;
by emailing [email protected]; or by calling (617) 926-4037.