About the Author
Matthew Karanian has lived and worked in Armenia and Karabagh for several years as a writer, photographer, and a professor of law. He has a degree in international law from Georgetown University, and his writings about Armenia, Georgia, Karabagh and Turkey have been published in the US, UK and Canada.
Robert Kurkjian has lived and worked in Armenia as a professor of environmental studies and as a research director at the American University of Armenia. He earned his Ph.D. in geochemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz and he has studied photography in New York and Los Angeles. Photographs from his extensive travels have been published in numerous books and periodicals worldwide.