Role: Author

Arman J. Kirakossian received his Ph.D. in history from the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the history of the Armenian Question. He currently serves as the ambassador of the Republic of Armenia in Washington. Arman J. Kirakossian is deputy foreign minister of the Republic of Armenia and author of The Armenian Massacres, 1894–1896: US Media Testimony (Wayne State University Press, 2004), The Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide, Essays on the History of Armenian Question and the International Recognition of the Armenian Genocide, among other books.

Arman Vartanyan was born in Istanbul in 1930. He has written seven plays during the years 1976-1980.

A boy of nine at the beginning of the genocide, Armen Anush witnessed the cold-blooded atrocities that the Turks committed against thousands of innocent Armenian deportees, before and after reaching the infamous city of Der-Zor in the Syrian desert. Surviving the carnage almost miraculously, Armen Anush was raised in the orphanages ofAleppo, and went on to become a distinguished educator and author.