On Sunday, September 11, 2016, at 13.00, Yerevan-based Armenian reporter and author Tatul Hakobyan will deliver a lecture on Armenia-Turkey relations, Nagorno Karabakh negotiation process and Armenia’s foreign policy issues and challenges in Dearborn, Detroit, Michigan.
The event is organised by the Armenian Educational and Cultural Society’s (Hamazkain) local branch, the office of the Armenian Cause (Hay Dat) of Detroit and the Armenian orthodox church.
The 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”. The volumes will be available in English as well as in Eastern and Western Armenian with classical orthography.
On the evening of Saturday, September 10, 2016, Hakobyan will deliver a lecture in Chicago, Illinois. The event is organised by The Armenian General Benevolent Union’s (AGBU) Chicago branch and Missak Galian, Editor-in-chief of Parev Monthly Newspaper. The event will start at 7.30 at the Union’s (AGBU) Chicago branch’s hall.
Evenings with Hakobyan in New York and Boston, will take place in September 6 and 8, respectively.
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.
To know about Tatul Hakobyan more, see this video prepared by the Media Initiative Center, Yerevan, Armenia.
