Role: Translator

George Mouradian by profession is an engineer, yet also a history enthusiast. He is an American born Armenian who has researched Armenian history since his high school days, taught and was principal of Armenian Sunday School classes, lectured on Armenian subjects, and has been very active in the Armenian Engineering and Quality Management at the American University of Armenian in Yerevan, Armenia. He has traveled in and written on Historic Armenia. He retired from the active work force, but is currently assisting various organizations in the field of quality and reliability engineering. His principle aim in the engineering consulting area is to have companies make more reliable and superior quality products, and to provide better service. His principle aim in Armenianism is to encourage Armenian youth to learn more about their heritage, history, and culture, and to be active in Armenian affairs. He wrote Your Journey Into Armenia because he felt Armenian youth needed a book that relates to their history and culture. He included many illustrations that connect with Armenia's history in order that students also get a picture of what the narrations are about. Two of his previous books, Armenian InfoText and NEVER TO DIE, also covered history to a large extent.

George A. Bournoutian is Professor of East European and Middle Eastern Studies at Iona College, New York. He has taught Iranian history at UCLA and Armenian History at Columbia University, New York University, University of Connecticut, Tufts University, Rutgers University, Ramapo College, and Glendale Community College. He is the author of eleven books, including The Khanate of Erevan Under Qajar Rule and A Concise History of the Armenian People. His translations of primary sources such as The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete; Abraham of Erevan’s History of the Wars: 1721-1738 and documents such as Armenians and Russia, A Documentary Record,1626-1796, Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, A Documentary Record, 1797-1889, have received laudatory reviews in TLS, BSOAS and other important publications. Professor Bournoutian is a member of the Society for Iranian Studies and a member of the Society for Armenian Studies. He is also a frequent contributor to encyclopedias, various scholarly journals, and collections. His work has been cited in major publications and he is considered a world authority on the history of eastern Armenia and Transcaucasia in the Modem Period (1400-1900). South Asia, Central Asia, Russia, Australia, and South America. Professor Boumoutian was born in Isfahan and grew up in Iran. He received his High school diploma from the well-known Andisheh (Don Bosco) institution in Tehran. His B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are from UCLA where he studied with Drs. Richard G. Hovannisian and Amin Banani. Professor Boumoutian has given numerous academic lectures on Armenia and Eastern Europe and has lectured at virtually every Armenian community center in the United States, Canada, and Australia. He is fluent in Armenian, Persian, Russian, and Polish and has a reading command of French and Azeri. He is also very involved in studying and writing on classical music (piano repertoire) and the world of cinema. Professor Boumoutian accompanies his senior and graduate students on annual trips to Armenia and Transcaucasia, Middle East and Iran, Africa, Southeast Asia.

Born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1947. He has lived in Armenia (1966-72), obtaining an MA degree in Philology from the State University of Yerevan. At present he is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne. He has traveled in the Soviet Union, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Basmadjian is the author of four books of poetry and translator of Paruir Sevak: Selected Poems, an English-language edition published in 1973. His poems have appeared in English, French, Russian, Czechoslovakian and Hungarian. He has translated widely from the Armenian into English and has introduced modern American, English and Arabic poetry to the Armenian reader.