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NAASR announces winners of the 2026 Aronian Book Prizes

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) has announced the winners of the 2026 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes. The prizes are awarded for books published in 2025. Dr. Houri Berberian and Dr. Talinn Grigor were recognized for "The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979" (Stanford University Press), which presents the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. The other prize went to Tenny Arlen and Dr. Jesse Arlen for the book "To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?" (Tarkmaneal Press). Berberian is the director of the Center for Armenian Studies at the University of California, Irvine campus, and Grigor is a professor of art and architecture history at the University of California, Davis campus. According to the organization's statement, Tenny Arlen died in 2015, before taking part in a doctoral program.

This story is based on the organisation's press release.