Presenting Little Armenias: The Travel Guide of the Armenian Diaspora 

PARIS – In 2018, the first edition of Little Armenias was published in French. It’s like a Lonely Planet travel guide book, but for the Armenian Diaspora. One by one, the book presents Armenian communities in 101 countries with history, geography and facts about every single church, cultural center, restaurant and market. Why is it so unique? Because it’s exhaustive. It’s up-to-date, thanks to a large network of collaborators. Also, because the author has visited most of the places himself. 

The French edition was presented in more than 20 Armenian cultural centers in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. After a meeting with the author in Lisbon in 2019, Dr. Razmik Panossian, director of the Armenian Communities Department at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, suggested to have the book available in English too. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation offered its generous assistance to translate and publish Little Armenias in English. Entirely updated for the 2020 edition, the book is now available in English. A book tour in Europe and the US will be organized soon.