Ruben Safrastyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ruben Safrastyan

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1955

Place of Birth: Yerevan, Armenia

Profession: scientist

Nationality: Armenia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ruben Safrastyan (Armenian: ?????? ??????????; born 5 October 1955), is a professor, director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, full member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, and professor of history and Turkish studies at the Yerevan State University.
He has also served as a counsellor of the Armenian Embassy in Germany.
In recent years he has received various fellowships, including Humboldt (Germany), Fulbright (USA), and International Policy (Hungary) fellowships and conducted researches at the universities of Bochum, Berkeley, and Budapest.
His publications include 12 authorized and edited books and 130 articles and papers.
He specializes in Turkish, Ottoman, Genocide, Middle Eastern and Regional Studies.Safrastyan is also the founding editor of the academic periodicals The Turkic and Ottoman Studies (since 2002) and Contemporary Eurasia (since 2012), as well as editor of the academic yearbook Peoples and Countries of the Near and Middle East (Yerevan, Armenia).