Hello I am new here

[Hovik]

How are all of you?


I hope all are fine.

Actually i was on the net trying to get any information about Armenia, then I found this site .

I met around 6 people from Armenia working in Dubai, which is near my country, and really I found them very good people.

I tried once to go to Yerevan but I didn't find any friend to go with.


I hope i will go once.


Thank you.


Abdu

Welcome to the forum Abdu, Glad you found us and joined. Actually we have a large Armenian community in Dubai (not just temp. workers), my wife's cousin moved his family there and works in tourism. I'm glad you are interested in learning more about Armenia. We have a very long history and ties and more recently friendship with parts of the Arab world. Therefore it is only natural that we should strive to know more about each other, travel to and spend time in each others countries and gain a greater understanding of each others cultures. Thank you for joining the forum, I look forward to seeing more of your posts. For some really great info on Armenia (including tourism and detailed site descriptions and photos) please see: www.ArmeniaPedia.org

Hovik

P.S. if you are still interested in travelling to Armenia, you don't need to wait for a friend, we have direct flights to and from Dubai and elsewhere. If you would like I can put you in touch (via e-mail) with some very reasonable (english-speaking) tour guides, just Private Message me for the info.

[Katya]

Hi, I'm new here.
My name is Katya. I'm 17 years old. I'm a Russian Doukhorbor. I just recently leanrned about the genocide, and I'm interested in trying to help in any way I can. So far, I've been reading a bunch of biographies from our public library, but sadly, there are few.
Does anyone have any suggestions in how I could start a movement?

[1.5 million]

Katya - welcome. I can't pretend to know a Doukhorbor Russian from a Muscovite (so please do tell...) but I applaud your interest in this very important historical issue with lessons for us all. The key at this point is education - for yourself and for others. So read what you can find - peruse the past posts here for instance..I also urge you to check out the talk pages on Wikipedia (even the article itself - though it is flawed) - and references. And participate in discussions (and ask questions) on this forum. And then talk to others about what you've learned and spread the word! ...that will be very helpful in and of itself. BTW - your English is quite good. There are Russian sources for Genocide discussion and analysis - but I suspect the majority you will find that is comprhensive and worthwhile is in English. Dadrian is the place to start - but there are many other studies as well. The Turkish scholar Tanar Akcam has written two excellent books and you also may want to check out "The Burning Tigris"

[Steph]

Hi,
my name's Steve, I'm English and my wife Alina is from Yerevan. We have two beautiful children, Yelena (9 yrs) and Alex (6 yrs). They were baptised at Holy Geghard in September so you could say that we have 3 full and 1 honorary Armenian in our family.

I hope to be able to add perhaps a different dimension to the forum.


Thank you

Steve

[Joseph]

Hi,
my name's Steve, I'm English and my wife Alina is from Yerevan. We have two beautiful children, Yelena (9 yrs) and Alex (6 yrs). They were baptised at Holy Geghard in September so you could say that we have 3 full and 1 honorary Armenian in our family.

I hope to be able to add perhaps a different dimension to the forum.


Thank you

Steve

Welcome to both Katya and Steve!

[Katya]

Thanks for welcoming me.
Actually, I'm from Canada, and I don't speak Russian (yet), so I think my english should be good.
Thanks for the advice. I am reading up on everything I can find. Sadly, like I said earlier, our library (public and school) are really lacking in info about the genocide. I actually first heard about the genocide from a reader's Digest article. And what's sad more is when I questioned my history teacher about the genocide, she knew nothing about it.
On the good side, I am trying to get people interested in helping me, and I have a friend who will help me in starting a movement in school.

[SOADsMinion]

Hello everybody. My name is Jessica and I am doing a project on the Armenian Genocide along with my friends for History Day. We are very interested in it and would like to know if any of you are armenian and have history in intrest of an interview with you. Thanks if you reply to this.

[Zahn]

I was a member here about two years ago but I forgot my user name and password, so I'm back!

[1.5 million]

Welcome helen - looking forward to your contributions and perspectives.

[Helen]

Thank you