Khatchig Mouradian

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Khatchig Mouradian is a journalist, writer and translator born in Lebanon on August 22, 1977. He was an editor of the Lebanese-Armenian daily newspaper Aztag [1] from 2000 to 2007, when he moved to Boston and became the editor of the Armenian Weekly[2]. The special publications he edited include "Commemorating Genocide: Images, Perspectives, Research" (2008) [3].

His articles [4] and poems [5] [6] [7] have appeared in many publications worldwide. Many of his writings have been translated into more than 10 languages. He contributes to a number of U.S. and European publications including ZNet [8], Jewcy [9] and the Jewish Advocate [10][11].

Mouradian has interviewed leading scholars, authors and journalists like Noam Chomsky [12], Arundhati Roy [13], Paulo Coelho [14], Chris Bohjalian [15] and Nicholas Kristof [16].

He has lectured extensively and participated in conferences in Armenia, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and the U.S. He has presented papers on genocide and the media at several academic conferences including the 5th [17] and 6th Workshops on Armenian-Turkish Scholarship, held at NYU in 2006 and at the Graduate Institute in Geneva in 2008.

His translations (to Armenian) include Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" [18] published by Hamazkayin in 2004. The book was launched[19]in Yerevan, Armenia in the presence of Coelho and Mouradian.