From September 4 to 13, 2016, Yerevan-based Armenian reporter and author Tatul Hakobyan will deliver lectures on Armenia-Turkey relations, Nagorno Karabakh negotiation process and Armenia’s foreign policy issues and challenges in seven cities of the United States of America. The lectures and Q&A sessions will be followed by presentations of Hakobyan’s two books – “Karabakh Diary; Green and Black” and “Armenians and Turks”.
Here is the confirmed schedule of Hakobyan’s lectures and book presentations:
1. September 4 or 5, 2016, Nashville, Tennessee
2. Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 7:00 PM, New York, St. Illuminator’s Cathedral, 221 East, 27th Street, New York, NY.
3. Thursday, September 8, 2016, 8:00 PM, Boston, St. Stephen’s Church, 38 Elton Avenue, Watertown, MA.
4. Friday, September 9, 2016, 7:00 PM, Washington, Soorp Khatch Church, 4906 Flint Drive, Bethesda, MD.
5. Saturday, September 10, 2016, 7.30 PM, Chicago, Illinois, The Armenian General Benevolent Union’s (AGBU) Chicago branch’s hall.
6. Sunday, September 11, 2016, 1.00 PM, Dearborn, Detroit, Armenian Community Center, 19300 Ford Road, Dearborn, MI (Michigan).
7. Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 7:30 PM, New Jersey, St. Leon Armenian Church/Charles and Grace Pinajian Youth Center, 12/61 Saddle River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ
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.
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.
To know about Tatul Hakobyan more, see this video prepared by the Media Initiative Center, Yerevan, Armenia.
