Fresno Bee, CA
Jan 7 2015
Author to speak at Fresno State on early 1900s Armenian life
By Rory Appleton
Vahé Tachjian will deliver a talk on Armenian daily life from 1908 to
1915 at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in Room 191 of Fresno State's University
Business Center.
The lecture will open the Armenian Studies Program's Spring Lecture
Series and will focus on Armenians in the Kharpert/Harput region of
the Ottoman Empire. It looks at first-hand accounts from the region
during the years leading up to the Armenian Genocide.
Tachjian is the director of the Houshamadyan Project, which looks at
the French occupation of Cilicia, Syria and Lebanon between the world
wars, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and refugee problems in the
Middle East.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2015/01/06/4317604_author-to-speak-at-fresno-state.html?rh=1
Jan 7 2015
Author to speak at Fresno State on early 1900s Armenian life
By Rory Appleton
Vahé Tachjian will deliver a talk on Armenian daily life from 1908 to
1915 at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in Room 191 of Fresno State's University
Business Center.
The lecture will open the Armenian Studies Program's Spring Lecture
Series and will focus on Armenians in the Kharpert/Harput region of
the Ottoman Empire. It looks at first-hand accounts from the region
during the years leading up to the Armenian Genocide.
Tachjian is the director of the Houshamadyan Project, which looks at
the French occupation of Cilicia, Syria and Lebanon between the world
wars, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and refugee problems in the
Middle East.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2015/01/06/4317604_author-to-speak-at-fresno-state.html?rh=1