On Thursday, December 2 (at 5:30 PM), 2021, Yerevan-based Armenian reporter and author Tatul Hakobyan will deliver lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in room 2-105.
“Syunik, the Spine of Armenia under Threat” lecture and Q&A session will be followed by a presentation of Hakobyan’s books:
VALLEY OF DEATH in English and Armenian,
KARABAKH DIARY: GREEN AND BLACK in English and Armenian
ARMENIANS AND TURKS in English and Armenian.
“ՄԱՀՎԱՏ ՀՈՎԻՏ. 44-օրյա ԱՂԵՏ/The Valley of death; 44-day catastrophe” – The book was published after last year’s 44-day war and is Hakobyan’s diary, a series of articles on the days of the war and its aftermath.
“ԿԱՆԱՉ ու ՍԵՒ. ԱՐՑԱԽՅԱՆ ՕՐԱԳԻՐ/Green and Black; Karabakh Diary” – Hakobyan wrote this book in 2008. In 2021, the book’s fourth edition came out, where he added 50 pages about the 44-day war: description and analysis.
“ՀԱՅԵՐԸ և ԹՈՒՐՔԵՐԸ/Armenians and Turks” – This book tells the story of Armenia-Turkey relations from 1918 to the present 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), HETQ (2005-2006), 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), Civilitas Foundation/CivilNet online TV (2009-2021).
Since 2014 he has been a coordinator of the ANI Armenian Research Center (https://www.aniarc.am/).
Tatul Hakobyan currently is a columnist at Aliq Media (https://www.aliqmedia.am/).
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.
On February 20, 2019, Hakobyan received Media Excellence Award (2018 Universal Rigthts Award) in recognition of outstanding commitment to producing thoughtful and independent reports and promoting freedom of speech and expression.
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