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Armen Sarkissian is a world-renowned theoretical physicist, diplomat, businessman and philanthropist. Armenia’s former president (2018–22) and prime minister (1996–7), founding director of the University of Cambridge’s Eurasia Centre and co-creator of TETRIS-Gold, he has held senior positions at BP, Alcatel-Lucent, Bank of America, the World Economic Forum, EBRD and the EastWest Institute (NY).

Tsolin Nalbantian is Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University. She is co-series editor of Critical, Connected Histories (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq & Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies and History Compass. She has written the entry ‘Armenians in the Middle East’ for the Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East (2018).

Jennifer Manoukian is Lecturer in Western Armenian at Rutgers University and Co-Founder of Gesaria Armenian Research and Academic Services.