“Artsakh Diary” – In English
In Beirut, Armenian reporter and Yerevan-based Civilitas Foundation expert Tatul Hakobyan's book, Karabakh Diary; Green and Black or Neither War nor Peace, was published in English and Western Armenian with classical orthography. 1500 copies of the English volume and 1000 copies of the Western Armenian volume were issued.
In the fall of 2008, the book's first publication in Eastern Armenian was issued in Tehran, Iran. Last February, the book was published in Russian in Yerevan.
In the book's forward, Raffi K. Hovhannisian, the Armenia's first foreign minister wrote, "The author successfully depicts the full panorama of the death and destruction from that time, and details the determination of the Artsakh Armenians to defend themselves against a stronger and larger enemy. In this way, Hakobyan is able to portray the victorious David and Goliath nature of the Artsakh war, with an added emphasis on the impact on the ordinary people caught up in the conflict." Hovhannisian added that the book "stands as a chronicle-documentary set against the background of the Azerbaijan-Karabagh conflict."
Hakobyan's second book, Looking from Ararat: Armenians and Turks, will cover the difficult relationship between Armenia and Turkey, spanning from the time of the Armenian Genocide to the football diplomacy of the present.
