By ignoring all these legitimate reasons
for Turkey's failure to win the Security Council seat, Foreign Minister
Cavusoglu falsely attributed his country's defeat to its reluctance to
abandon "its values for the sake of getting more votes."
Publisher of The California Courier
Ever since I was a child, I loved
storytelling. I used it in making my own Muppet shows, in-school
fanzines, and invent stories when I was at home. It...
I am a writer in english and greek of scripts, children stories and fiction.
As long as the Samaras-led government
continues to act pompously and unsympathetically toward its citizens,
Greece will have its head shackled to the guillotine. Until, and if, the
axe drops, that is!
I first heard of the knives of my native
Lefkada a long time ago when an important collector arrived, seeking
out the few remaining specimens of the renowned blades of the Ionian
island that were, for years, meticulously handcrafted by the artisans of
the local village of Poros.
It's unusual to write about Ph.D. dissertations, but
when the topic deals with digital firewalls and Internet censorship,
it's an attention grabber in an era of disclosures on surveillance by
countless governments.
Director of Media Unlimited in Lebanon
Albania was sealed off to foreigners for
almost the entirety of the Cold War. With democracy came an influx of
visitors from the rest of the world. No one knew quite what to expect.
But getting to the pristine beaches of the Albanian Riviera is not an
easy task.
Avid traveler and former lawyer Insta: JSBaumeister
The leading political lights in Europe
-- Messrs. Hollande, Valls and Macron in France and Mr. Renzi in Italy
-- are raising a big stink about fiscal austerity. They don't like it.
And now Greece has jumped on the anti-austerity bandwagon.
Professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
Suddenly, people all around the world know of the island that my father was from.
Ikaria, an island in eastern Greece close to the Turkish border,...
Author. Blogger. Adventurer. And everything in-between.
Ikaria's remoteness helped shape a culture of solidarity, self-reliance, and, to use a catchphrase of the day, mindfulness.
Greek-American chef, cookbook author, TV cooking show host, and collaborating chef at Molyvos Restaurant in New York
Our time could easily become another
dark age. Christianity and Islam are hovering over each other, fighting
global crusades in the Middle East. The horror of the Middle East is
played out in the context of an even larger horror: the globalization of
ruthless business practices threatening our Mother Earth.
Since mid-August, Greece has been living
the discovery of the tomb of Amphipolis as if following a daily
soap-opera, with the public at large mesmerized by the constantly
updating developments of the excavation.
Evanthia Condakes left a few days ago to
journey to her beloved husband, Leo, with whom she lived a life
centered on Orthodoxy, Hellenism and family a...
When our son was born, my husband and I decided to
make a concerted effort to expose him to as many different languages,
cultures, religions, foods, historical sites and natural wonders as
possible early in life as we believed that it would be beneficial for
his development.
Amid the degeneration and loss of freedom and
wellbeing of millions, an ember of civility and civilization in the form
of a video entitled "The Greek Secret" has emerged. It is sweeping
around the world.
President and Founder, The Washington Oxi Day Foundation
I admit that it's plausible for a
48-year-old woman to transform herself at will from an invisible hag
into a noticed and admired woman, but when you're 60, or 70 (as I am)
you're permanently in the 'invisible' category, unless you're, say, Joan
Collins or Jane Fonda.
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