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Yeghia (Yeghig) Jerejian ( hy, Տոքթ. Եղիկ Ճէրէճեան, born in 1957, in
Beiruth) is a Lebanese-Armenian author and political figure,
Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) ( hy, Սոցիալ Դեմոկրատ Հնչակյան Կուսակցություն; ՍԴՀԿ, translit=Sots’ial Demokrat Hnch’akyan Kusakts’ut’yun), is the oldest continuously-operating Armenian ...
Central Committee Member (since 1995). From 1992 to 2009 (for four times) he was elected as a member of the
Lebanese parliament from
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
.
Biography
Dr. Jerejian was born in Beirut, in a family which comes from
Hadjin
Saimbeyli, alternatively known as Hadjin ( hy, Հաճըն, translit=Hajěn), is a township and a district in the Adana Province, Turkey. The township is located at the Taurus mountains of Cilicia region, 157 km north of the city of Adana. The dist ...
. A graduate of Beirut Hovagimian-Manoogian Armenian School, later graduated
Yerevan State Medical University
The Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU, hy, Երեվանի Մխիթար Հերացու անվան Պետական Բժշկական Համալսարան), is an Armenian medical university located in Yerevan, Armenia.
History
On ...
. He is a member of
Ararad Daily editorial staff, a former editor of "Ararad Youth", and an author of 12 books and many articles on Armenian and Middle East history.
In 2014 in Beirut he published his sixth book entitled, “From the Ones Who Built the Road to Eternity.”
Yeghig Jerejian Presents “From the Ones Who Built the Road to Eternity”
/ref> In 1995 he published a monograph on the Armenian genocide
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...
in Arabic.
He is married to Houry Jerejian.
Books
*Martyrs on Bloody Path, by Dr Yeghia Jerejian, Beirut, 1989
*Panturanism, 1998
*Pandukht, 1999
*The Ottoman Parliamentary Elections of 1912 and the Western Armenians, 2007
*From the Ones Who Built the Road to Eternity, 2014
*Medzn Mourat, 2016, 248 pages,
References
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Ethnic Armenian historians
Politicians from Beirut