Vanessa Kachadurian, Armenian History significant year 1918

Anna Nazaryan “Radiolur” 1918 marked a breakthrough in the Armenian history. People, who had survived genocide, found strength in themselves to restore the statehood lost five centuries ago. Recalling some episodes of the heroic battles of Sardarapat, Bash-Aparan and Gharakilisa, Doctor of History, Professor Babken Harutyunyan said that the May victories were celebrated thanks to a small group of Armenian regular forces and volunteers. “We defeated the Turks due to our unity,” he told reporters today. Dean of the History Faculty of the Yerevan State University Edik Minasyan also emphasized the importance of unity in the May victories. However, the first republic existed for just 2.5 years. Which are the lessons that must be drawn from the loss of the first republic? First of all it was the lack of regular army, a shortcoming that has been corrected today, Minasyan said. Historian Babken Harutyunyan, in turn, emphasized the importance of pursuing a correct economic policy and having a strong army. http://www.armradio.am/eng/news/?part=pol&id=22977

Vanessa Kachadurian Armenian History in Art

Vanessa Kachadurian- Armenian Cultural and Historical heritage

YEREVAN, JUNE 22, ARMENPRESS: The International Conference entitled “Armenian Highland cultural and historical heritage” is scheduled to declare its launch in capital Yerevan on June 25. "Historical and Cultural Reserve-Museum and the Historic Environment Protection Service” non –commercial state organization informed Armenpress. Historical and cultural heritage of Highland history, archeology, ethnography, art, architecture, museum industry and other related issues are set to be discussed at the Conference. More than 90 prominent academics from the USA, Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy and Ukraine are scheduled to come forth with their reports during the International Conference. The goal of the Conference is to present the role of Armenian Highway historical and cultural heritage in the formation and development of historical processes in the region. The Conference will end in Stepanakert, on June 30. http://armenpress.am/eng/news/685392/%E2%80%9Carmenian-highland-cultural-and-historical-heritage%E2%80%9D-international-conference-to-be-launched.html

Vanessa Kachadurian- History Museum of Armenia

I’m going to tell about one of the most important parts of Armenian culture ! that is History Museum of Armenia …. For first – last news ! Just know that yesterday here added 180 new old things from Pyunik So- I’ll not tell from wikipedi ! Just what I saw in my visit … I admit after visit that really have not sense meet that museum without gid who will tell you about everything what you see. The museum represent an integral picture of the history and culture of Armenia form prehistoric times ( one million years ago ) till our days ! The state museum of Ethnography founded in 1978 received 1428 objects and 584 photographs ! The museum is for 100 % subsidized by the State , the ovner of the collection and the building ! Is entrused with a nationall collection of с. 400.000 objects and has the following departments . Archeology (35% of the main collection ) , Ethnography ( 8 % ) , Numismatics ( 45 % ) , documents ( 12%)…. The history museum of Armenia carries out educational and scientific-popular programs on history and culture ! You can look photos for see some of things from there , only some coz all what inside of – is keeping and there is not chanses to take photos of them ! http://maps.spotilove.com/place/history-museum-of-armenia/

Vanessa Kachadurian, Armenians in Egypt and their rich history

At a time when the citizenship of a candidate’s mother disqualifies him from the presidency, it is nearly impossible to imagine an Armenian holding the post of Egyptian prime minister. Yet the reign of Mohamed Ali was not a unique chapter of diversity in Egyptian history. Like the Ottoman period, the Fatimid and Mamluk eras involved significant contributions of foreign peoples. Armenians were builders of Bab Zuweila and seamstresses of the Kabba covering, court photographers of Mohamed Ali and jewelers to King Farouk. Today, they are a tight-knit community, integrated in the fabric of Egypt. Under Mohamed Ali, Armenians and other Ottoman citizens flocked to Egypt for opportunity under the ambitious new ruler. “Egypt was like the Gulf is today as far as traveling there to work,” says Thomas Zakarian, a teacher in Heliopolis’ Nubarian School. The Wali of Egypt hired Armenians as diplomats, commercial agents and technicians to modernize the country. Under his auspices, Armenians founded colleges of accounting, engineering and translation in the mid-19th century. Education Minister Yacoub Artin Pasha inaugurated Egypt's first girls’ school in 1873. Mastery of Ottoman Turkish and European languages made Armenians suitable intermediaries to the West and favored by Ali as chief translators. “Armenians were viewed as outsiders, but not as Europeans,” says Mahmoud Sabit, an Egyptian historian, whose ancestor Sherif Pasha was the rival of Nubar Pasha. They had a knack for diplomacy and warfare; Fatimid and Mamluk armies employed Armenians as heavy-armored cavalry. Others were expert stonemasons. Armenian Muslim Badr al-Jamali, one of seven Armenian Fatimid viziers, commissioned his kin to build Bab al-Futuh, Bab al-Nasr and Bab Zuweila. “The world then was not based on ethnicity, which is why outsiders could have easily integrated in it,” Sabit said. SEE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE: http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/communities-armenians-egypt-recount-rich-history

Vanessa Kachadurian Turk journalist presented the history of Armenian last family in Sasun | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency

Turk journalist presented the history of Armenian last family in Sasun | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency

Vanessa Kachadurian-Armenian Bibliography available regarding Armenian Genocide

A newly published bibliography covering literary publications on the Armenian Genocide will now serve as a key to the multitude of works written on this important chapter in history, Center for Armenian Remembrance informs about this. Bibliographer Eddie Yeghiayan, Ph.D., has gathered a vast and extensive library of material on the Armenian Genocide, providing copious notes and details on the major works that have dealt with the destruction of the Armenians during World War I. In the “Armenian Genocide Bibliography,” Yeghiayan has arranged a library of information to help us gain a better grasp of the thousands of publications covering the genocide. Of course, any bibliography that aspires to furnish an exhaustive collection of literature on so broad a topic as the Armenian Genocide will always fall just short of completeness. The voluminous documentation that exists on the systematic extermination of the Armenians during the First World War ranges from contemporary articles published in newspapers and journals worldwide, in the reports, correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of military men and statesmen, the eyewitness testimony of survivors, missionaries, relief officials, and officials in the diplomatic corps, to material from the archives of the United States, Europe, and the Near East, to say nothing about the numerous studies published in the realm of academia. Looking past the problems inherent in so daunting an enterprise, it is nonetheless surprising that no dedicated bibliography on the Armenian Genocide has appeared since Richard G. Hovannisian’s The Armenian Holocaust: A Bibliography Relating to the Deportations, Massacres, and Dispersion of the Armenian People, 1915-1923 in 1980. It was in order to fill this gap, to provide to the scholar and the layman alike a clear and accessible work of reference that Dr. Eddie Yeghiayan of the University of California, Irvine undertook the painstaking process of compiling a comprehensive bibliography on the Armenian Genocide. The descendant of survivors of the massacres and deportations, Yeghiayan has not only drawn from scholarly books, articles, and print media, but has also produced lists of works published in the fields of the arts and literature, as well as in the medium of television, documentaries, and the Internet. At over a thousand pages long and the product of five years’ of research, he has collated a vast and diverse array of material and presented it to the reader in a cogent and gracefully organized format. The Armenian Genocide: A Bibliography will prove to be the definitive work for reference an! d consul tation for a new generation of scholars and individuals keen on learning about the first major humanitarian crisis of the twentieth century. "The Center for Armenian Remembrance is proud to bring the first of its kind digital archive of this vast collection of publications. The bibliography is available to the public and fully searchable at http://www.centerar.org/bibliography/. Visit this link, search and explore our vast archive today", the Center for Armenian Remembrance concludes. http://times.am/?l=0&p=10739