Murad Meneshian

Murad A. Meneshian, born in Baghdad, Iraq, has lived in the United States since 1957. He is a research chemist, who retired from Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies. He is the author of several articles in technical journals. In 2010, he published a biography of Raffi titled, Raffi:The Prophet from Payajuk. Meneshian has translated Vahan Hambartsumian’s Giughashkharh, published under the title of Village World. He has contributed a chapter to Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia and a translated chapter to Khodorchur: Lost Paradise. He is interested in the history of Armenia and Mesopotamia. Over the years, he has contributed to the Armenian Weekly. He and his wife, Knarik, live in Glenview, Ill.