Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Arab-backed fund signs $434m deal to buy luxury Greek resort
The new agreement includes amended special zoning and spatial planning for the development of Astir Palace. Greece’s privatisation agency said it signed a €400 million ($434.3 million) deal with Jermyn Street Real Estate Fund to sell Astir Palace, a luxury seaside resort outside Athens. Greece’s top administrative court had blocked the sale of the Astir…
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Egypt’s Nour El-Sherbini Becomes Youngest Ever New York Squash Tournament Champion
Egyptian squash players Nour El-Sherbini and Mohamed El-Shorbagy have each won the top titles in the 2016 Tournament of Champions, an annual international squash championship held in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. In front of a sold out crowd at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall, El-Sherbini, 20, defeated New-York raised 22-year-old Amanda Sobhy, the highest ranking American…
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Egypt: fossils and climate change museum inaugurated
WADI EL HITAN (EGYPT) – The “Fossils and climate change museum” was inaugurated in the Egyptian desert and presented as the only one of its kind in the Middle East and probably anywhere the world. Financed by Italian Cooperation, it was built in the area of Wadi El Hitan, the ”valley of whales” that extends…
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Onassis Foundation: Scholarships for Foreigners
22ND ONASSIS FELLOWHIPS PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS 2016-2017 The Foundation announces the twenty-second (22nd) annual Program of scholarships starting on October 1st, 2016 which is addressed to non-Greeks, University Professors of all levels (Ph.D. holders), Postdoctoral Researchers and Ph.D. Candidates.Application Submission Deadline: 26th of February 2016 More information here