Category: CULTURE
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Three Greek photographers on Thomson Reuters team to win Pulitzer Prize
(www.ekathimerini.com)
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Greek-Cypriot author Georgiou wins 2016 European Literature Award
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On Alexandria’s Fouad Street, some have a longing for the elegant past
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: Along Fouad Street, a Costa coffee shop near old buildings with Italian and French architecture reminds Egyptians that commercial ventures threaten to erase traces of Alexandria’s aristocratic past. Named after King Fouad I, who died in 1936, the street is a throwback to a time when the arts flourished in a cosmopolitan city…
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Alexandria’s ancient sites face extinction due to stalled renovation
Eighty percent of the province’s sites, meanwhile, have not been touched by conservators for tens of years. Archaeologists have told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the whole history of Alexandria is threatened with extinction, especially since the only UNESCO-registered ancient Coptic site, the Abu Mina archaeological zone, may be removed from the organization’s world heritage record due…