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Arpa jan, yes, its been a really really long time. 3 years ago I moved back to Armenia, now we live in a house in Ashtarak which I have renovated for good 4 month, have a baby daughter 1 year old and life seem to finally kind of settle down. Too many years I spent wondering around and realized there is only one place I want to be - my country. How is life been treating you?

Thanks... its awfully quiet here these days, eh?

When I was working on this, I was thinking what ճանապարհ means, where does it begin, where does it end, the narrow escapes, sharp and long curves, circles which take you to the starting point and a big white space around. Its a beautiful word with a lot of subtle meaning.

I have to correct what I said above about Holbein's works not depicted in Volkmar's book. They are, the patterns in the carpets painted by Holbein are analyzed extensively. This study of Oriental Christian carpets is monumental and Armenians are forever indebted to this scholar for giving them the deserved credit. If you don't own this book - go buy it, you'll spend hours and hours with it.

Well, I am proud to say that my works and article on Armenian calligraphy were finally published in http://www.amazon.com/The-World-Encyclopedia-Calligraphy-Writing-History/dp/1402733682/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385796138&sr=8-1&keywords=encyclopedia+of+calligraphy - of course this work was done on pure enthusiasm, but at least we are now represented properly in a book which is widely circulated. If any of you want to stay in touch - I have a group dedicated to Armenian calligraphy on Facebook - you are welcome to come and join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/173475532663571/ And I will be more than happy to catch up with old friends. Be well!

Strange to find a reply to my 3 years old post but thanks Arpa. I have made some progress in my research but for now its stalled because I didnt find funding. Here are two links, check it out : http://15levels.com/art/armeniancalligraphy/ & http://independent.academia.edu/RubenMalayan/Papers I also have some works on facebook but dont know how to post them here...

its been taken care of.

Time is running out.. 3 more days and the site will go down... friends, please send out some messages, lets find that 99$ to keep the site alive....

Still searching for help... anyone?

Our project www.Armeniangenocideposters.org needs sponsorship for the coming year. We need one time donation of $99 payed by a credit card or PayPal to a hosting company by 8th of November 2008. If we fail to pay the bill the site will go offline and the project will cease to exist after 6 years. Can anyone help?

One of the three Israeli solders killed in Gaza yesterday is an Armenian boy, David (21). I know his family. My deepest condolenses to them.

Amos Oz, Al Gore among 2008 Dan David Prize recipients By Haaretz Correspondent and AP , By Tamara Traubmann Israeli author Amos Oz and former U.S. vice president Al Gore are among the recipients of this year's Dan David Prize for influential scientific, technological, cultural or social achievements, the prize administrators announced in Tel Aviv yesterday. The winners will receive the award in Israel in May. The prize, which is based at Tel Aviv University, awards three prizes of $1 million each in categories representing the past, present and future. Oz, who is one of the most widely read Israeli writers in the world and has won the Goethe and Israel prizes for his writing, was chosen "for portraying historical events while emphasizing the individual, and for exploring the tragic conflict between two nations from a very human point of view," stated a statement from the Dan David Prize. Several of Oz's works represent the pre-state era "as a backdrop for his psychological insights and his thoughtful in-depth characterizations," according to the statement. Oz has written both fiction and non-fiction, and his books include "The Hill of Evil Counsel," "My Michael" and "A Tale of Love and Darkness." Speaking from his home in Arad, Oz said he is working on a new collection of stories, though he wouldn't say what the book is about. "I'm reluctant to expose my pregnancy to X-rays," Oz said. Shared prize Oz will share the prize money with the two other winners in his category, called "Creative rendering of the past: Literature, theater, film": British playwright Tom Stoppard and Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan. Gore, a Nobel Prize laureate who wrote "Earth in the Balance" and produced and starred in the Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth," both about climate change, was the sole winner in the Present category, which focused on social responsibility and the environment. He was honored "for his multiple contributions in raising the conscience of the world to the challenge posed to the continuing sustainable function of the global environment and life support system." The Future category went to researchers Ellen Moseley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson at Ohio State University for their studies of geological and environmental records in ice cores and Geoffrey Eglinton of Britain's University of Bristol for findings on inhabitants and climates of ancient worlds through his studies of organic chemical fossils.

Anyone of you guys have work in a pipeline? Will be really appreciated...

The site is offline. To restore it a fee of 99$ needs to be paid. Can anyone help, please, before it falls down on Google search rankings. All is needed to login to the hosting service and pay the fee with credit card. Please help me, if we lose this project it will be a loss for all of us.