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Rita Vorperian (Armenian: Ռիթա Որբերեան) is a journalist, writer, translator, and researcher. She has served as teaching fellow and lecturer in Western Armenian at UCLA. She was the former executive director of the Armenian Relief Society in the Western United States from 1998 to 2005 and is currently the senior administrator. ==Life and works== Of Armenian descent, Rita Vorperian was born in Aleppo, Syria and graduated from the local Karen Yeppe Armenian High School.〔 She continued her studies at the St. Joseph University in Beirut where she studied Armenology.〔 After moving to the United States, Vorperian enrolled and graduated UCLA, where she received Bachelor of Arts degree in Near Eastern Studies, Master's degree in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and a Doctoral Degree in the field of Armenian literature and literary criticism.〔 Her dissertation is titled ''A Feminist Reading of Krikor Zohrab''.〔 She has a strong interest in feminist topics, about which she made many presentations and contributed articles in Armenian publications in the United States and abroad.〔 She has been a senior lecturer in University of California, Los Angeles for seventeen years from 1983 to 2000. She has been an active journalist and has submitted to many Armenian newspapers such as Aztag (daily) in Beirut, Azat Or in Greece, Asbarez in Los Angeles, Artsakank in Cyprus, and Hairenik in Watertown, Massachusetts.〔 She has also contributed to Pakine in Beirut with literary works. She was one of the moderators for the University of California, Los Angeles World Conference in Contemporary Armenian Literature on April 7–8, 2011. She speaks seven languages including Armenian, French, Arabic, Turkish, English, Spanish and Russian.〔 She is a translator of numerous Armenian books such as ''Javakhk: A World That Cares'' by Jennifer Salmassian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.abrilbooks.com/books/14083.html )〕 She is also one of the founding members of the Western United States branch of the Armenian Hamazkayin Cultural Organization.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hamazkayin.com/organizations_regions-chapters.php?Lang=en®ionID=11 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rita Vorperian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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