The Ararat-Eskijian Museum will host a presentation of the new publication Armenian Constantinople (Mazda Publishers), edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Simon Payaslian. The featured speaker will be Dr. Joseph A. Kechichian, political scientist and historian specializing in the Middle East, as well as editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies. Prof. Hovannisian, who holds the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA, will also be present and will offer remarks. Armenian Constantinople is the ninth volume of the proceedings to be published from the UCLA conference series, “Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,” organized by Prof. Hovannisian. Under Ottoman rule, Armenians in the capital registered impressive cultural and economic achievements despite their legal status as second-class citizens, and they witnessed an enlightenment and cultural reawakening in all spheres of literature and arts led by such intellectuals as Bedros Turian, Hagop Baronian, Srpuhi Diusap, Zabel Yesayan, Rupen Sevag, Taniel Varoujan, and Siamanto, the last three falling victim to the genocidal policies of the Young Turk regime. The military and economic decline of the Ottoman Empire, however, caused severe tensions between Turks and Armenians, further exacerbated by strains in international relations.