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Diaspora youth group but not as you know it
Hellenic pride in young diaspora is healthy in part thanks to Greek Youth Generator (GYG) which came about during COVID-19 as a way for Greek youth to connect and GYG …
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Greek Dance: An enduring expression of identity
For Greeks dance since ancient times been a core expression of identity. Plato wrote “the dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is …
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Greek woodcutters give energy crisis the chop
Huddled around a campfire sipping hot tea, a group of Greek lumberjacks take a badly needed break in an oak forest not far from the Albanian border. With petrol and …
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From the Temple of Poseidon to the stadiums of Doha: The Humanities and Human Beings
Cape Sounio Back in the days before the COVID-19 Pandemic, I made my first pilgrimage to Athens to mark my 40th birthday. It used to be something of a regular …
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Calatrava’s St. Nicholas: a symbol of forgiveness and forward movement
Twenty-one years after St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has created a beacon for reflection in …
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Meleros: Melissa Pateras creates a cocktail of colour and flavour for your face, made in Greece
Melissa (Mel) Pateras has been dreaming about launching her own business for over a decade. Her passion for all things beauty, love and Greece flowed together in 2019 to set …
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Michael Christofas’ ‘Persona’ explores the lives and works of contemporary veteran artists
Visual artist and photographer Michael Christofas unveiled the online component of his latest project ‘Persona’ last month, in collaboration with writer Gabriel Holmes and the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum …
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What did the Ancient Greeks look like?
The topic of ethnicity and racial identity is a hot potato. Dark memories of Nazi Germany’s eugenic racism from the 1930s and early 1940s and more recently ethnocentric rhetoric from …
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Andreas Manos: a century of life defined by war and migration
“My old friend, what are you looking for? After years abroad you’ve come back with images you’ve nourished under foreign skies far from you own country.” -George Seferis ‘The return …
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“We created our own village here in Australia”
Two Greek Australian couples from Melbourne, who recently celebrated their double wedding anniversary of 60 years told Neos Kosmos about how life became sweeter and more bearable once their fellow …