Yeghia (Yeghig) Jerejian (Armenian: Տոքթ. Եղիկ Ճէրէճեան, born in 1957, in Beiruth) is a Lebanese-Armenian author and political figure, Social Democrat Hunchakian Party Central Committee Member (since 1995).[1] From 1992 to 2009 (for four times) he was elected as a member of the Lebanese parliament from Beirut.[2]

Yeghig Jerejian in 2016

Biography edit

Dr. Jerejian was born in Beirut, in a family which comes from Hadjin. A graduate of Beirut Hovagimian-Manoogian Armenian School, later graduated Yerevan State Medical University. 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.[3]

In 2014 in Beirut he published his sixth book entitled, “From the Ones Who Built the Road to Eternity.”[4] In 1995 he published a monograph on the Armenian genocide in Arabic.

He is married to Houry Jerejian.

Books edit

  • 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, ISBN 978-9939-860-22-0

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