On Sunday, September 4, 2016, Yerevan-based Armenian reporter and author Tatul Hakobyan will deliver a lecture on Armenian domestic issues, Armenia-Turkey relations, Nagorno Karabakh negotiation process and Armenia’s foreign policy challenges in Nashville, Tennessee.
The event, organised by the Armenian Cuhrch of Nashville, will take place at Laurelbrook Clubhouse at 1998 (address: Whaterstone Drive, Frankline, TN, tel: 615 9756813) at 6 P. M. local time.
Several hours before the event Hakobyan had a phone interview with the Armenian Radio Hour of New Jersey (www.armenianradionj.net).
The Nashville lecture and Q&A session will be followed by a presentation of Hakobyan’s two books – “Karabakh Diary; Green and Black” and “Armenians and Turks”.
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.
Tatul Hakobyan graduated from the Department of Journalism in Yerevan State University, and Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in Tbilisi. He 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 2009, Yerevan Press Club 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.
