Greek Community of Alexandria

Author: Athanasios Koutoupas

  • Movie review: ‘The Promise’

    Movie review: ‘The Promise’

    Finally, a film on the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocide hit mainstream US theatres.

    I urge you to watch The Promise. It’s an epic movie. Actor Christian Bale plays a great character as Chris Myers, an American reporter, who exposes the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocide.

    Chris Myers was a true American reporter who reported on the truth. Not what you see in today’s fake news American media outlets and newspapers such as CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, New York Times, Washington Post and other establishment, globalist-owned media outlets.

    The movie briefly shows the US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morgenthau. Morgenthau exposed the genocide of the Christian Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks by Muslim Ottoman Turks in the US. The US Congress during the genocide issued resolutions against the genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks.

    The movie shows the start of the genocide and the Armenian resistance on Musa Dagh where French Naval forces helped saved a few thousand Armenians.

    The genocide of the Christian Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks by Muslim Ottoman Turks has been exposed to mainstream America and the world via Hollywood. The outlaw war criminal Muslim tyrannical government of Turkey can no longer deny or keep the genocide secret anymore. It’s out in the open. Islamic tyrant Turkish President Erdogan can’t say anything. Turkey spent millions since the 1950s bribing the US Department of State, US Department of Defense, US bureaucrats, and the US Congress to deny the genocide. Turkey fails. We win!

    The Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks must not become wimps and look only at numbers. Turkey is a huge nation with money, but we have persistence on our side. Three and a half million Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks were eliminated from 1914 to 1923. We must expose Turkish war crimes to never forget the victims.

    This goes to show you how persistence pays off. The Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks must never give up on our issues.

    As famous Rocky Balboa says in one of his Rocky movies, “It’s how hard you get hit hard and keep moving forward.”

    Alex Aliferis has worked in Washington DC on issues linked to Greece and Cyprus, as well as activating and mobilising America’s ethnic Greek voters for Republican candidates. Alex is also focused on strengthening bilateral ties between Greece and the US.

    (neoskosmos.com)

  • Greek seal to expand to more types of commodities

    Greek seal to expand to more types of commodities

    The Athens Chamber of Small and Medium-Sized Industries (BEA) is planning to expand the use of the mark indicating products of Greek origin to non-food categories, such as apparel, furniture and toys.

    This effort started in the summer of 2015, but without any substantial response from the competent Ministry for the Economy and Development. Now BEA and the Hellenic Marketing Academy (ELAM) are trying to attract the government’s – and enterprises’ – attention through the first “Made in Greece” symposium on May 31, with the participation of government officials, entrepreneurs, academics and certification authority officials.

    The aim of creating a Greek brand is to consolidate consumer confidence in products certified as Greek and to avoid misleading phenomena. It is also aimed at protecting the interests of Greek producers from imitations and unfair competition and strengthening the competitiveness of Greek enterprises.

    To date, the certification has been awarded to 524 products belonging to the categories of dairy and alcoholic products, with olive oil products soon set to follow, as the necessary procedures have just been completed.

    (www.ekathimerini.com)

  • E-Khorda: An Opportunity for Egyptians to Make Gold from E-Waste

    E-Khorda: An Opportunity for Egyptians to Make Gold from E-Waste

    E-waste is one of the fastest growing wastes in the world. Communication and technological literacy is increasing, and access to electronics and electric appliances is rapidly growing, and consequently so is electronic waste. Material such as lead, cadmium, mercury, zinc, and many more, are all found in all electronic and electrical devices used daily in our lives, which turn into health and environmental hazards if not disposed of properly.

    E-Khorda, a project which forms part of the Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) Programme, is an electronic waste recycling entrepreneurship support program that aims to help build operational e-waste companies by end of 2017.

    Egypt is seen as a high potential market. According to a study conducted by the ‘Best of 2 Worlds Project’, between 2017 and 2025 up to nine tons of gold can be extracted from e-waste. “Other findings also revealed that up to 17.96 tons of silver can be extracted from end-of- live (EOL) mobile phones in 2025. An estimate of cumulative potential gold and silver in EOL desktop and notebook computers, is approximately 3.73 & 22.71 tons respectively in 2025”, stated Dr. Fathya Soliman, Senior Consultant of Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE).

    The program, E-Khorda, will offer 10-15 potential e-waste startups from Egypt 10 full day training sessions on business and technical topics such as business modeling, cash flow analysis and technology assessment. It will also provide 60 hours of individual technical consultancy sessions, and five business sessions related to finance, marketing and pitching through Startup Reactor Accelerator.

    The top three performing startups will be identified through a panel of experts and will continue to receive full acceleration benefits of Startup Reactor Accelerator by Innoventures. This includes office space, training, mentoring, marketing benefits, legal registration and investment opportunities for an additional six months. Successful startups will also get a chance to pitch in the event during the Global Entrepreneurship Week in November.

    The training and technical consultations will be provided by Chemonics Egypt Consultants and Cleantech Arabia in association with the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Meanwhile, the investment matching and workshops are provided by Innoventures’ Startup Reactor.

    Those who wish to take the opportunity to build a business that makes a difference should complete the online application before March 5.

    Cairo witnessed the launch of the SRI Project in July in Egypt as the result of the agreement signed between the Egyptian Government, represented by the MCIT, and the Swiss Government, represented by the Swiss Embassy in Cairo.

    The main goal of the project is to support the sustainable integration and participation of small and medium enterprises in the recycling of e-waste in Egypt. Non-hazardous resourceful management of secondary non-renewable resources will be optimized, and local capacity of formal and informal sectors will be improved, ensuring sustainable e-waste recycling and job creation.

    (egyptianstreets.com)

  • Treasure from Alexander the Great’s reign found in Azerbaijan

    Treasure from Alexander the Great’s reign found in Azerbaijan

    Ancient coins minted 2300 years ago were discovered in Kyzylkend village of Azerbaijan’s Imishli region.

    Villager Etiram Rzayev discovered nine coins with an image of Alexander the Great, ruler of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia.

    A group of specialists of Azerbaijan’s National Academy have already visited the village and explored the found coins.

    According to the preliminary version, these are silver drachmas, issued during the reign of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC).

    Alexander the Great led a military campaign throughout the Middle East and parts of Asia. He is credited with founding some 20 cities that bore his name, including Alexandria in ancient Egypt, and spread Greece’s culture east. He died in Babylon, the present day Iraq, in 323 B.C.

    The specialists also observed the territory where the treasure was discovered, and revealed here an ancient habitat and necropolis. In the near future, archaeological excavations will be carried out at the site.

    The ancient trade and caravan routes run through the territory of Imishli region, located in the Kura-Aras Lowland.

    Earlier, ancient coins have been discovered in Shamakhi (1958), Gabala (1966) and Agsu (1972) regions.

    Azerbaijan was on the path of the Great Silk Road bringing together two different worlds – the East and the West. The Silk Road in Azerbaijan passes several cities and settlements in the north-western direction, including, Baku, Shamakhi, Basgal, Lagich, Gabala, Sheki and others.

    Bilateral land and sea routes linked Azerbaijan with China, Syria, India, Asia Minor, Iran, Egypt, Russia, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa and Europe. The British used to lay their routes to India via Azerbaijan, Indian merchants traded in spices and cashmere fabrics with Baku and Shamakhi.

    (www.azernews.az)