Born in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon. Current residence: Paris, France 1977-Present

EDUCATION

• Literature, PhD, University of Paris VII, France 1988. Thesis: William Saroyan en quête de son identité d’écrivain:

• Une Lecture de nouvelles

  (William Saroyan in Quest of His Writer’s Identity: A reading of his Short Stories)

• Pre-Doctoral English Studies University of Paris VII, France 1982 DEA; Diplôme d’Etude Approfondie

• Thesis in English: The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills

  Saroyan’s, Rock Wagram (structural analysis)

• Comparative Literature, MA, Sorbonne Nouvelles, France 1981

  Thesis: Le conflit d’identité d’un écrivain arménien-américain

  A Reading of Saroyan’s Novel: The identity conflict of an American-Armenian Writer.

• Philosophy and Aesthetics, MA, Lebanese University, Lebanon 1976.

• Philosophy, BA, American University of Beirut, Lebanon 1972.

   

REVIEWS, LECTURES & APPEARANCES –1980-2000 On Saroyan

• Studies in Haratch Daily and Haratch Cultural Supplement, (Haratch Midk yév Aroust), Paris, France, Senior Contributing Writer

• Front page of Haratch Daily on the day of Saroyan’s death.

• An interpretation of Saroyan’s The Human Comedy.

• Special issue of Midk yev aroust dedicated to Saroyan’s death. The Adventures of Wesley Jackson, Book Review of French Translation.

• Theatre review ,My Hearts In The Highlands, French Version by French actors

• The Institute Of Oriental Languages. Rencontre autour de L’interprétation des signes Saroyanesques (A conference on the interpretation of Saroyaneque signs)

• William Saroyan Literary Foundation International, San Francisco, USA Key speaker on the 8th annual “Celebrating Saroyan” event: “Writing is a Saroyanesque Engagement”

  California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, USA

• Lecture: “The Representation of the Assyrian in Saroyan’s narration”Assyrian TV and Radio, Turlock, California USA

• Interviews on Saroyan’s literature.

Other contributions

• Samuel Beckett: Theatre Review Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Samuel Beckett: Dublin 1906 and Paris 1989. Presentation of Beckett’s theatre inform of obituary

• Bertolt Brecht: The concept of “Distanciation in Brecht’s Theatre”. Reflections on the play The Life of Galileo

• Book review: Georgio Strehler’s reflection through. A Theatre for Life

• Book review: The Empty Space: Peter Brook Thinks on Theatre

  Presentation of “Bread and Puppet” theatre movement

• Book review: The Aesthetic Outlook of Ernst Fischer through: The Necessity of Art

• Essay: “Street Theater”, in Birds Nest, A Photographic Essay of Bourj Hammoud, Ara Madzounian, 2016.