Armenian reporter and coordinator of the ANI Center for Armenian Studies Tatul Hakobyan will have a series of meetings and discussions with Armenian communities, unions and organizations on the East Coast of the United States from March 7 to 20, 2023.
On Monday, March 13 (at 7:00 PM), 2023, Hakobyan will deliver lecture in St. George Armenian Church in Hartford, Connecticut.
During his meetings, Hakobyan will also present ANI Center’s new report – “Syunik, the Spine of Armenia under Threat” which is available in Armenian (Read – https://www.aniarc.am/2023/02/12/syunik-report-ani-2022/). This report was prepared by the financial support of The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, NAASR and The Knights of Vartan Fund for Armenian Studies.
Hakobyan will also present the Second Revised Edition of 270 page book written and compiled by him and Paul Shahinian The Journeys of Heroes, published by ANI Armenian Research Center. It presents translations of the memoirs of Vagharshag Shahinian, a volunteer fighter from Van, and Yeghishe Catchouny, one of the primary personal aides of General Antranik Ozanian. Both men served in the Caucasus front of WWI during the creation of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918.
This volume as well as the publications of ANI Center and Tatul Hakobyan will be available for purchase during his trip.
You can contact Tatul Hakobyan by writing to the following e-mails:
aniarcf@gmail.com or tatarmen@yahoo.com,
Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000616638924
Phone numbers:
374 91 42 64 35 – Viber
374 98 65 53 21 – WhatsApp
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) and a columnist at Aliq Media (2021-2023).
Since 2014 he has been a coordinator of the ANI Armenian Research Center (https://www.aniarc.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.
