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.
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.
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