"On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, The Institute of Oriental Studies at RA National Academy of Sciences published the book by professor Nikolai Hovhanissian. The book is entitled "The Armenian Genocide Highlighted by the Arabian Historians." It is published by state assistance and by the decree of the State Committee for the Arrangements Dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The author dedicated his work to the memory of all the victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, "to all the young Armenian girls that couldn’t become brides and all the young Armenian boys that didn’t become men," as well as "to all the generous Arabs that were kind enough to reach a helping hand to the Armenians in the hard days of 1915 on their way to Golgotha."
The book thoroughly represents the researches of the Arabian historians on the reasons and the essence of the Armenian Genocide, as well as the methods and mechanisms of its implementation. The author emphasized the importance of the fact that the Arabian historians began using the term "Armenocide" (elimination of the Armenians). They stated that the Armenian Genocide was the dark page of the XX century. At the same time, the Arabian historians say that the Ottoman Empire is a country of massacres carried out not only against Armenians but also against Arabs, Greeks, Assyrians, Slavonian nations, as well as against other non-Turkish minor nations that lived there.
The author pays special attention to the facts of rendering help to the Armenians by Arabs in the years of the Genocide".
By Ruzan Poghosian
AZG Armenian Daily #022, 09/02/2005