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Hye Sharzhoom
May 2004
Armenian Studies Program
Book/Video/CD/Archival Gifts
Dr. Dickran Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos, and
archival gifts either offered personally or to the Program.
Lucille Apcar, Mariposa, for the copy of the book From the Book of
One Thousand Tales, Stories of Armenia and its People, 1892-
1922, written by Diana Agabeg Apcar.
Glatzor, Yearbook of the Armenian Seminary ofthe Catholicosate of
Cilicia, vol. XI (2003), 256 pages. Gift of His Holiness Aram
I, Antelias, Lebanon.
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Avedian, Fresno for the books, periodicals,
Bibles and journals from the estate of their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Arnie Avedian.
Vahan Baibourtian, New Delhi, India, International Trade and the
Armenian Merchants in the Seventeenth Century, New Delhi:
Sterling Publishers, 2004, ix, 261 pages, with color plates,
maps and an index. An important study on Armenian merchants and their activities in western Europe, the Near East,
Iran and India. The author holds the chair of International
Relations at Yerevan State University and is head ofthe Iranian
Department of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Gift of
Armen Baybourtian, Armenia's Ambassador to India and
former Armenian Counsel General in Los Angeles.
Arman J. Kirakossian, British Diplomacy and the Armenian Question, from the 1830s to 1914, Princeton & London: Gomidas
Institute, 2003, 365 pages, index. A major study based on
British and other archival documents, first published in Armenian in 1999. Dr. Kirakossian is currently Armenia's ambassador to Washington. Gift of the author.
Carl Mahakian, Rancho Mirage, for the book Look at Us Let's See
Here we Are... by William Saroyan.
Virginia Meltickian, Fresno, forthe additional pages forthe Memory
Album ofthe Armenians in China from the beginning ofthe last
century to the 1950's she has established forus and the copy of
the book Kavkaz, A Biography ofYervand Markarian.
Mikael Nichanian and Vivien Prigent, Paris, France, "Les Strateges
de Sicile. De la naissance du theme au regne de Leon V," Revue
des Etudes Byzantines, vol. 61 (2003), pp. 97-141. A minute
survey of the Byzantine governors of Sicily in the eighth and
the first decades ofthe ninth century based in part on officials
seals used on official documents. Gift of Mikael Nichanian.
Prof. Kenji Noguchi, Kurume, Japan, for the copies ofthe books by
William Saroyan, My Name is Aram and The Human Comedy
both translated into Japanese.The books will be kept in the
Special Collections department of the Madden Library.
Armenian Studies Chairs, Programs, and Related Graduate Studies,
1969-2003, compiled by Dennis R. Papazian and Gerald
Ottenbreit, Jr.,UM-Dearnborn Armenian Studies Series No.
1, Dearborn, MI: Armenian Research Center, 2003, lv, 80
pages with an index of proper names. A very handy guide to
Armenian Studies in the diaspora including elaborate listings
of M.A. and PhD theses completed at each institution. Gift of
the authors.
Alexandre Del Valle, La Turquie dans V Eur ope. Un cheval de Troie
islamiste? (Turkey in Europe. An Islamist Trojan Horse?),
preface by Jean-Pierre Peroncel-Hugoz, Paris: Editions des
Syrtes, 2004,460 pages. An extremely well documented study
of why Turkey is not qualified to be invited to enter Europe,
with insistence among other things that Turkey must recognized the genocide Armenian as a precondition to enter the EU.
Available through amazon.com or through the web site
www.alexandredelvalle.com. Gift of J.-P. Peroncel-Hugoz.
Dr. Ara Sanjian, Beirut, Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian
Studies, Fall 2003, for several books and pamphlets.
Robert W. Thomson, "Constantine and Trdat in Armenian Tradition," Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung., 50/1-3
(1997), pp. 277-289. Gift of the author.
Dr. Bert Vaux, University of Wisconsin, for the journal, Annual of
Armenian Linguistics Volumes 22-2.
Eva de Vries-Van der Velden, Amsterdam, Holland, Theodore
Metochite, Une reevaluation,Am&tezdam: J. C. Gieben, 1987,
ix, 276 pages. An extremely interesting, iconoclastic and
detailed figures of one of most famous figures of Byzantine
Constantinople in the fourteenth century. Gift of the author.
Eva de Vries-Van der Velden, Amsterdam, Holland, L 'Elite Byzantine devant Vavance turque a I'epoque de la guerre civile de
1341 a 1354, Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1989, 296 pages. A
fascinating evaluation ofthe mid-fourteenth century agitation
in the Byzantine Empire structure around the lives of the major
personalities of the time, with a very valuable historical rein-
terpretation of Byzantine-Turkish relations up to 1341. Gift of
the author.
California State University, Fresno
Armenian Studies Program
Fall 2004 Schedule of Courses
Course
Units     Time
Day
Instructor
General Education
Social Sciences, Area D3,for students using 1999/2000 catalog and after
Division 9-Other Cultures, for students using 1998/1999 catalog and before
• ArmS 10       Intro to Arm Studies  3        10:00- 10:50A MWF      B. Der Mugrdechian
(#71548)
• Arm 1A        Elementary Armenian   4     11:00-11:50A MTWF  B. Der Mugrdechian
(#71544)
Arts & Humanities, Arts, Area CI for students using 1999/2000 catalog and after
• ArmS 20 Arts of Armenia 3       9:30-10:45 A    TTh       B. Der Mugrdechian
(#71549)
Upper Division Courses
• ArmS 108A Arm History I 3        9:00-9:50A    MWF       B. Der Mugrdechian
(#71550)
• ArmS 120T-Armenians' Odyssey   3       3:30-4:45 P   TTh H. Georgelin
(#83419)
For more information call the Armenian Studies Program at 278-2669
v^ or visit our offices in the Peters Business Building, Room 384. J
Dr. Arra Avakian Donates Slide Collection to Fresno State
Staff Report
Professor Arra Avakian of Fresno, retired
professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno State,
has donated his entire library of color slides to the
Armenian Studies Program. The collection constitutes more than 12,000 slides taken over forty
years of travel by Dr. Avakian.
The slides cover a wide number of places
visited by Dr. Avakian, especially slides of important monuments and sites, such as
Etchmiadzin, Mt. Ararat, Khor Virap, and
Sardarabad, in the Republic of Armenia.
Dr. Avakian has also visited historic Armenia
several times, and his slides of Van, Arapgir,
Adana, and many other locations in historic Armenia, are of great historic value and interest.
Monastery of Khor Virap with Mt. Ararat in the
background. Photo by Dr. Arra Avakian.
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