Khatchig Mouradian

Mouradian was born in an Armenian family in Lebanon.[1] He worked as the editor of the Armenian Weekly from 2007-2014. He is the recipient the Gulbenkian Armenian Studies research fellowship to study the Armenian community in China in the 20th century (2014).[2] Mouradian is also the recipient of the first Hrant Dink Freedom and Justice Medal (2014) of the Organization of Istanbul Armenians.[3] In 2016, Mouradian earned the first PhD in Armenian Genocide studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University; scholars Taner Akçam, Debórah Dwork, and Raymond Kévorkian formed the committee that approved his dissertation, titled Genocide and Humanitarian Assistance in Ottoman Syria (1915-1917).[4]

Mouradian has lectured and participated in conferences in Armenia, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, China, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. He has presented papers on genocide and the media at several academic conferences including the 5th and 6th Workshops on Armenian-Turkish Scholarship, held at NYU in 2006 and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 2008, an international conference titled "The Armenian Genocide and International Law" at Haigazian University in Beirut in September 2009, the 2010 "The State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research" conference at Clark University

, the 2010 Armenian Genocide conference in Ankara, Turkey , and the 2014 conference in Washington of the Society for Armenian Studies .

In 2009, Mouradian was the Seventh Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecturer at the University of Minnesota . On April 24, 2010, Mouradian delivered a lecture on the Armenian Genocide in Istanbul, Turkey.[5]

Mouradian was one of the junior editors of the Lebanese-Armenian daily newspaper Aztag from 2000 to 2007, when he moved to Boston and became the editor of the Armenian Weekly. Mouradian holds a B.S. in biology and has studied towards a graduate degree in clinical psychology.[6] He also holds a graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution and Management from the University of Massachusetts Boston

As a journalist, Mouradian has interviewed leading scholars, authors and journalists like Noam Chomsky,[7] Arundhati Roy,[8] Paulo Coelho,[9] Chris Bohjalian[10] and Nicholas Kristof.[11]

His paternal grandparents hail from Konya, and Kilis, while his maternal grandparents hail from Adana, and Amanos.

His articles and poems[6][12][13] have appeared in publications worldwide. A few of his poems in languages other than English have been translated to English and are available online.. Many of his writings have been translated into more than ten languages. He contributes to a number of U.S. and European publications, including ZNet,[14] Jewcy,[15] The Jewish Advocate.[16][17] and Radikal.

The special newspaper publications he has edited include "Commemorating Genocide: Images, Perspectives, Research" and The Armenian Genocide.

He has one academic publication, "From Yeghern To Genocide: Armenian Newspapers, Raphael Lemkin, And The Road To The UN Genocide Convention," (Haigazian Armenological Review, Vol.29, 2009).

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

He judged the New England Poetry Club's 2007 Shelia Motton Book Award, the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award and the 2008 Daniel Varoujan Award.[18]

• Mouradian, Khatchig (2021). The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1918. MSU Press. ISBN 978-1-62895-419-7.