Over the last ten years, AGBU's Young Professionals (YP) have continually been successful at uniting young Armenians around the world and today the network is the only one of its kind to span 22 groups on five continents. Congratulations on their continuing success!

We also congratulate Camp Nubar in upstate New York for celebrating 45 glorious years as a summer getaway for Armenian youth.

In Yerevan, AGBU publicly presented the Armenian Virtual College to a captive audience. The AGBU Virtual College is the organization's latest initiative which aims to make Armenian education more accessible than ever before. The online college will formally launch in January 2009.

This month, we've added two new features to the AGBU Newsletter: one, an expanded This Week in Photos that offers you a glimpse of AGBU's impact around the world, and two, a new From the Archives section that will highlight a photo from the organization's online historical archive.

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Young chess players square off during the UN Cup Chess Festival that was co-sponsored by AGBU and took place in Yerevan, Armenia on September 19, 2008.

Cheerleaders participate in the opening ceremonies of HMEM Nubar Cairo's 50th- anniversary basketball tournament on October 3, 2008.

2008 Yerevan Summer Intern Program (YSIP) participants at the Khor Virap church near Mount Ararat.

Young Professionals Break New Ground - Networking Never Felt This Good

The only Armenian network of its kind spanning five continents, the AGBU Young Professionals (YP) make Armenian communities around the world thriving, better places in which to live, through civic involvement and international cooperation bound by one common mission - to promote the Armenian identity and heritage.

Inspiring their peers to get involved and stay involved, the open-door policy of the AGBU Young Professionals has garnered them a worldwide reputation for promoting a sense of community and belonging for young Armenians ages 22 to 40

Proof positive, the AGBU YP Network swelled to 22 groups with welcome additions abroad in Brazil, Australia, and Germany, while stateside, Washington, D.C. and Fresno, California joined the fold. Discussions are also ...>>

Cairo Hosts "Armenia - Arab World: Past and Present" Forum

An unprecedented international forum "Armenia - Arab World: Past and Present" took place at the Faculty of Arts of the Cairo University on ... >>

Camp Nubar Celebrates 45 Years of Memories and Friendship

October 2008--On September 13, over 200 guests from several generations gathered in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood to ... >>

Armenian Virtual College Presented To Armenian Public

On Sunday, September 28, 2008, hundreds of individuals gathered in Yerevan, Armenia's Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall to watch the ... >>

New York, USA. Friday, October 17
YPGNY invites you to Oktoberfest-ivities 2008
Paris, France. Friday, October 17
Lecture & Cocktail Reception With Entrepreneur Rafi Haladjian
Chicago, USA. Sunday, October 26
Chicago Open House/Community Meeting
New York, USA. Sunday, October 26
New York Armenian Home Visit - Fall 2008
Toronto, Canada. Sunday, October 26
Toronto Art Exhibition
Los Angeles, USA. Friday, October 31
YPLA Halloween Bash
Toronto, Canada. Saturday, November 1
"Righteous Turks and Armenian Righteous Among Nations: Rescuers in the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust" a Lecture by Richard Hovannisian
Toronto, Canada. Sunday, November 2
Annual Bazaar and Food Sale
Toronto, Canada. Sunday, November 9
Krikor Satamian one man show: "Shad Mi Sirer, Adel Ga, Shad Mi Ader, Sirel Ga" (Don't Love too Much, There's Hate, Don't Hate too Much, There's Love.")
Brussels, Belgium. Thursday, November 13
"A Journey of Cultural Rediscovery: Armenian Heritage in Turkey," a conference organized by AGBU Europe

Complete calendar listings

Archeology of Madness: Komitas
Rita Soulahian Kuyumjian

Komitas, clergyman and founder of Armenian classical music, became a symbol of the Armenian suffering of the 1915 Genocide. His capture, eventual release and subsequent mental illness elevated him in the eyes of Armenians to martyrdom. Published by Gomidas Institute through a grant by AGBU.

Hardcover, 241 pages.

Courtyard of the Aleppo Ottoman barracks, converted into a reception center for genocide survivors returning from their places of deportation. Aleppo, probably late 1918.