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    LECTURE, OPEN HOUSE AT NAASR

    Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA
    Nov 22 2006

    Dr. David Gaunt, professor of history at S?t?University College,
    Stockholm, Sweden, will give a lecture entitled "Massacres and
    Resistance: The Genocide of the Armenians and Assyrians Based on
    New Evidence from the Archives" on Thursday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. at
    the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
    Center , 395 Concord Ave., Belmont.

    This lecture, Gaunt's first in the Boston area, will be co-sponsored
    by NAASR and the United Assyrian Association of New England. The
    lecture will begin promptly at 8 p.m.

    Preceding and following Gaunt's lecture, NAASR will hold its annual
    holiday open house, featuring a special sale in NAASR's bookstore,
    refreshments, music, gift-wrapping, and slide presentation of
    highlights from NAASR's recent 50th Anniversary Celebration. The
    bookstore will open at 6 p.m. and remain open until 11 p.m.

    The lecture will be based on findings from Gaunt's recently-published
    book, "Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations
    in Eastern Anatolia during World War I," which will be on sale and
    available for signing by the author.

    Gaunt will detail how the persecution of Armenian and Assyrian
    Christian minorities was organized on the national and local levels
    in places where Armenian and Assyrian populations overlap. His work
    is based on unique access to hundreds of documents in the archives
    of Istanbul and Ankara, as well as documents of Iranian, Russian,
    Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, French and German origin. Most of these
    documents have never been published before. The new documents fill
    in some of the blank spaces in the history of genocide.

    Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). For more
    information call 617-489-1610, or e-mail [email protected].
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