Category: CULTURE

  • European Day of Languages

    European Day of Languages

    At the initiative of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, the European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on the 26th of September. Its goal is to encourage plurilingualism, intercultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding through events held worldwide. This year in Alexandria, Egypt an interactive festival will be hosted at the Bibliotheca…

  • Bookshelf: Walking in Athens with Constantine Cavafy

    Bookshelf: Walking in Athens with Constantine Cavafy

    Renowned Greek poet Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on 29 April, 1863. A cosmopolitan by birth, Cavafy travelled for the first time to Greece in the summer of 1901, accompanied by his brother Alexandros. His stay in Athens constitutes the topic of a new book entitled Walking in Athens with Constantine Cavafy. Wandering through Athens with…

  • An innovative platform brings international students closer to Greece

    An innovative platform brings international students closer to Greece

    A new project called “Study in Greece” has been launched by a group of faculty members from the Department of Informatics and Telematics, of Harokopio University, with the help of students (international and Greek) who worked on a volunteer basis, in order to bring the project to life. Their aim was to provide information, support…

  • Pakistan unearths the city defeated by Alexander the Great

    Pakistan unearths the city defeated by Alexander the Great

    Pakistan has unearthed the city defeated by Alexander the Great. The ruins that Italian archaeologists have unearthed in modern-day Barikot, in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, once belonged to Bazira, the city conquered by Alexander the Great. In short, Italian archaeologists working in the Italian-Pakistani excavations in the Swat valley did not go on vacation this summer.…