By the decision of RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Ani Avetisyan was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Biography:
Born in 1991 on December 16, in Yerevan.
EDUCATION
Graduated from Yerevan School No. 67 named after Yeghishe Charents.
2008-2012 - Yerevan State University (Bachelor of Oriental Studies).
2010 June - 2010 September – Arabic language course (Arabic Teaching Institute for Non-Arabic Speakers), Damascus, Syria
2012-2014 - Yerevan State University, Master of Oriental Studies (with honors)
2014 August - 2015 March - Paideia - European Institute of Jewish Studies, Sweden
2015 January – International School of Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
2015 April - 2018 June – MA in Jewish Civilizations HFJS, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2019 October - 2023 September - University of Cambridge, PhD in Middle Eastern Studies
WORK ACTIVITY
2014 February - 2014 August - "Matenadaran" Ancient Manuscripts Research Institute, Junior Researcher
2019 February - 2019 October - Bryusov State University, Foreign Relations and International Cooperation Specialist (founded the first Hebrew Language and Culture Center in Armenia)
2020 March - Rutgers University, New Jersey, Guest Scholar, (Lectured on "Judeo-Arabic: An Introduction and Overview of Sources" and "Lost Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Matenadaran Collection")
2021 October - 2024 October - "Matenadaran" Ancient Manuscripts Research Institute, Project Specialist* (Researched the topic "Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Matenadaran Collection", the grant was awarded by the Government of the Republic of Armenia)
2022 October - 2023 June - University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, supervisor.
*(Taught MES 5 (Modern Hebrew) course to undergraduate students, counseled students individually and in groups on academic programs relevant to their interests)
2023 July - University of Cambridge, Hebrew Summer School, Lecturer*(Taught modern Hebrew to a group of international students)
2025 September - 2026 May - Brandeis University, Israel Studies Research Institute, Researcher (Fellow)
2024 January - present Cambridge, Wolf Institute, Research Affiliate
2024 September - present St. Edmund's College, Research Associate
2024 September - to date Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
2025 September - to date Yesa and Maria Mazmanyan Foundation (Cooperation and partnership relations), member of the Board of Trustees,
2026 from September - Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
Avetisyan, A. "Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, and Garshuni Versions of Ibn al-Akfānī's Treatise on Bloodletting. Linguistic Variation in Late Judaeo-Arabic", Études sur le judaïsme medieval, Brill (published)
Articles published in peer-reviewed journals
Review of Joshua Blau's Notes on R. Saadya Gaon's Translation of the Torah, Part I – Genesis, European Journal of Jewish Studies. Brill, 2022
Avetisyan, A. "Ripe apples with bread?" T-S Ar.43.225", Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, March, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.99637)
Avetisyan, A., Makaryan V. "Arabic Medical Handbooks of Matenadaran Collection", Manuscript Studies. A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2023
Avetisyan, A. "Judaeo-Arabic as a Language of Healing." Medical Knowledge and Community Literacy in the Medieval Islamic World", Al-Masāq; Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (in press)
Avetisyan, A., Moreno A. "Egypt as a Global Migration Hub. A Historical Perspective", Journal of Migration History, Brill (in press)
Works published in collections
Avetisyan, A. "MS No. 1751 Judaeo-Arabic medical manuscript of the Matenadaran Collection", in: E.M. Wagner, Ottoman Arabic Handbook and Reader, University of Cambridge, 2021. Open Book Publishers:
Avetisyan, A. "Introduction to Manuscript MS 1751 Judeo-Arabic Medical Manuscript", Banber Matenadaran, Yerevan, 2021
Other publications:
Venara R. Makaryan, Ani J. Avetisyan, Christine P. Kostikyan, Ani A. Avetisyan "Catalogue of the Arabic-script Medical Manuscripts of Matenadaran Collection (Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Judaeo-Arabic)", Literary History of Medicine, Brill (under contract)
Avetisyan, A., Grigoryan A. "Armenian-Hebrew Thematic Dictionary", Antares Publishing House, Yerevan, 2022
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, LECTURES
Lecture "Between Script and Community. "Judaeo-Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Matenadaran Collection", November 11, 2025, Harvard University
"Armenia and Armenians in the Global Middle Ages." Texts and Manuscripts", international workshop, June 13-14, 2024, Matenadaran, Yerevan
58th International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 11-13, 2023, Western Michigan University
AJS 54th Annual Conference, December 18-20, 2022, Boston, USA
"Judaeo-Arabic in the Past and Present." Coordinator of the New Perspectives event, October 19-20, 2022, Cambridge University
34th Deutscher Orientalistentag, September 12-17, 2022, Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin)
AIS 38th Annual Conference: "Conflicts and Mobility in a Diverse Society", June 27-29, 2022, Bar-Ilan University
BAJS Annual Conference: World in Crisis, 5-7 July 2021, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton
"Questions of Armenology and Oriental Studies, dedicated to Armenologist and Orientalist Prof. International conference on the 100th anniversary of Hakob Papazyan, July 1-2, 2021, Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Matenadaran
"Armenian Studies and Israel Studies. New Scholarship, Shared Themes, Mutual Lessons" workshop, September 13, 2021, Bar-Ilan University
Lecture "Judaeo-Arabic. An Introduction and Overview of Resources", March 12, 2020, Rutgers University
Lecture on "Lost Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts of the Matenadaran Collection", March 13, 2020, Rutgers University
Coordinator of the event entitled "Perspectives of Hebrew Studies", November 7-8, 2012, Yerevan State University
LANGUAGES AND TECHNICAL SKILLS
Armenian - mother tongue
English - fluent
Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Assyrian - advanced
German, Biblical Hebrew - intermediate
Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Access programs - intermediate level
AWARDS AND AWARDS
Paideia Scholarship (2014-2015)
EVZ Scholarship (2015-2016)
Calust Külpenkean Foundation International Excellence Scholarship (2019-2022)
Rothschild Foundation Rare Europe Scholarship (2019-2022)
AGBU Scholarship (2019, 2021)
AIWA Scholarship (2019, 2021)
MyStep Foundation Scholarship (2019-2022)
Wolf Institute Honorary Doctorate (2019-2023)
