In mid September, 2016, Yerevan-based author and reporter Tatul Hakobyan will deliver series of lectures on Armenia-Turkey relations, Nagorno Karabakh negotiation process and Armenia’s foreign policy issues and challenges in Washington, New York, Boston and Chicago.
The lectures and Q&A sessions will be followed by a presentation of Hakobyan’s two books – “Karabakh Diary; Green and Black” and “Armenians and Turks”. The volumes will be available in English as well as in Eastern and Western Armenian with classical orthography.
Hakobyan is currently working on a new book about Armenia’s domestic and foreign policy from the beginnings of its journey towards independence in 1988 to the current day.
He graduated from the Department of Journalism in Yerevan State University, and Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in Tbilisi. Hakobyan has formerly worked as a correspondent for the newspapers Ankakhutyun (1991-1995) Yerkir (1998-2000), Azg (2000-2005), Aztag (since 2005), The Armenian Reporter (2008-2009) and as a political observer on regional issues of Radiolur news program of Public Radio of Armenia (2004-2008).
Since 2009 he has been an analyst at the independent Civilitas Foundation. Hakobyan is the coordinator of the ANI Armenian Research Center and the reporter with the CivilNet online TV and Beirut’s Armenian Aztag daily.
In 2005 he received Yerevan Press Club’s Annual Award for the coverage of regional issues in Azg daily. In 2008, YPC awarded him for his first book “Karabakh Diary; Green and Black”.
Hakobyan is a recipient (2014) of Haigashen Ouzounian Literary Award for his second book “Armenians and Turks”.
He is the 2016 winner of “The Time for Freedom of Press” – for consistent and comprehensive coverage of Karabagh conflict.
