Houri Berberian is associate professor of History at California State University, Long Beach and the director of the Middle Eastern Studies minor program. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Armenian History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993 and 1997, respectively. She is the author of several published and forthcoming articles, including the prize-winning "Armenian Women in Turn-of-the-Century Iran: Education and Activism,² in Iran and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2000). Her book, Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: ³The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland² (Westview Press) appeared in 2001. She is currently working on two projects: one on issues of Iranian-Armenian identity and memory and the other, a co-authored work with Sebouh Aslanian, tentatively titled ³The Cosmopolitans: A Commercial Biography of the Sheriman family of Julfa and Venice.²