Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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New Provincial Governor in Alexandria
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi appointed on Saturday 11 new provincial governors. The governors were appointed to the governorates of Alexandria, Suez, Gharbiya, Kafr El-Sheikh, Aswan, Port Said, Sharqiya, Minya, Giza, Qalyoubiya and Beni Suef. Below are brief descriptions of the appointees, five of whom are from police ranks, four from the Armed Forces and two are civil…
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GOCMV offering new summer course on Hellenism
Transterritorial Hellenism is the next course being offered this summer at the Greek Community of Melbourne’s Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture. Run in association with the School of Languages and Linguistics of La Trobe University, the course will explore issues in the modern construction of ethno national, civic, multiple and other identities. The concept of…
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Archaeologists claim they cracked Phaistos Disk’s code
Archaeologist and coordinator of the program Erasmus of Crete Technological Institute Gareth Owens gives a different version of Phaistos Disk mystery. He said that following new data found in his research the focus is no longer the “pregnant mother”, as originally estimated, but a “pregnant goddess” that takes shape in the face of Astarte, the…
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From Greece to Egypt on a Sailboat
By Tanya El Kashef In July 2015, I took part in a sailing voyage from Athens to Hurghada with the purpose of delivering four sailboats to Egypt. A daring journey for a group made up of mostly novices, it took nineteen days of sailing through six Greek islands, the wrath of Meltemi winds, long late…