From August 21 to September 7, 2018, Yerevan-based Armenian reporter and author Tatul Hakobyan will deliver lectures on Armenia’s Velvet revolution and foreign policy issues and challenges for Armenian communities in several cities of the United States of America and Canada.
Hakobyan will start his lectures in Los Angeles, final stop will be New York. It is expected that he will meet with the representatives of the Armenian communities in several cities of Canada.
The confirmed schedule of Hakobyan’s lectures will be available soon.
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 (2005-2016), 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 reporter with the CivilNet online TV and the coordinator of the ANI Armenian Research Center.
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.
