Role: Author

Richard N. Demirjiari, a true American of Armenian descent, was born in 1927 on a farm near Byron, Michigan and attended grade schools in Byron, Cleveland and Detroit, graduating from Detroit's Southeastern High School in 1945. During these formative years he watched a world at war and developed a true sense of patriotism, honor and love of country. This, along with his Armenian heritage, helped establish the path he would follow for all the years to come.\

Born in Montreal, Rima Elkouri is a journalist and columnist for La Presse. Winner of the Jules-Fournier Prize of the Superior Council of the French Language, she published Pas envie d'être arabe (Somme toute, 2014). MANAM is her first novel. She lives in Montreal.

Rita Kuyumjian M.D. F.R.C.P.(C) is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal. She is the director of the Outpatient Psychiatry Department at St. Mary’s Hospital.