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Albert Arsene Aghazarian (1950 – 30 January 2020) ( Armenian : Ալպերթ Աղազարեան ) was a Palestinian - Armenian historian and scholar , best known for leading the Palestinian media delegation to the 1991 Madrid Conference alongside Hanan Ashrawi .
His life
Albert Aghazarian was born in 1950 in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem to parents who had fled Anatolia after fleeing the massacre of Armenians by the then ruling Ottoman Empire. He studied at Birzeit College (later Birzeit University ), where he received a diploma in Middle Eastern studies in 1970, then moved to the American University of Beirut , where he received a BA in political science , and an MA in contemporary Arab studies from Georgetown University in 1979.
Albert worked for Al-Quds newspaper between 1973-1976, and was a founding member of the Arab Intellectual Forum Society in Jerusalem in 1977. [6] He also worked in translation , as he was fluent in Arabic, English, French, Armenian, Hebrew, Turkish and Spanish. He worked as a professor of history and then as director of public relations at Birzeit University between 1979 and 2002.
In 2006, he received a high medal from King Albert II of Belgium in appreciation for the services he provided to explain the issue of Jerusalem in particular and the Palestinian issue in general on the international scene.
He published books in collaboration with other authors, the first book entitled “Outside Jerusalem?: Christian Voices from the Holy Land” in 1997, and the second book entitled “Christian Voices from Jerusalem: On the Eve of the Third Millennium” in 1998. He also participated in a study in a collective book published in French under the title “The Mediterranean Basin between Reason and Madness” in 1998.
He died on January 30, 2020 in Jerusalem, at the age of seventy.
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