Author Markar Melkonian to speak

Author Markar Melkonian will present his new book, "My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia" at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, in the Industrial Technology Building, Room 101. The lecture is part of the Armenian Studies Program Spring 2005 Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the Armenian Students Organization.

My Brother’s Road is the story of Markar’s brother, Monte Melkonian, a third-generation Californian, who grew up to become a promising archaeologist, a witness to revolution in Iran, a militiaman in the streets of Beirut, a guerrilla in southern Lebanon, a prison strike leader in France and a commander of 4,000 fighters in the Karabagh war.

Markar Melkonian is a teacher, writer and veteran solidarity worker. He holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Melkonian’s books include “Marxism: A Post-Cold War Primer” (Westview Press, 1996) and “Richard Rorty’s Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century” (Humanities Press, 1999).

Melkonian is a founder and a director of The Monte Melkonian Fund, Inc. (http://www.melkonian.org), a nonprofit organization that assists the needy in the impoverished former Soviet Republic of Armenia.

For more information, contact the Armenian Studies Program at 8-2669.