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The much appraised documentary entitled Byzantium after Byzantium by historian and researcher Erato Pari, founder and director of the International Center for Hellenic Research, based in Nice, France, was first screened at the Montreal Centre for Greek Studies of...

The coming exhibit featuring Alexander the Great has drawn big interest with The Australian Museum in Sydney launching a special website, which beyond the ticket promotion, contains a range of information for the event that will kick off on...

Greek-American organizations in New York celebrated the anniversary of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising of students against the ruling military junta. A symbolic ceremony was organized at the Stathakio Cultural Center of Federation of Hellenic Societies in Astoria by...

Tasos Sophopoulos, one of Greece'sgreatest musicians, who immigrated to America in the 1950’s, passed away at 78 years old, on Nov. 18.  orn in Petralona, Athens, in 1934, he was a great bouzouki player from an early age. He...

To go along with an exhibition entitled Through the Eyes of Children, depicting is part of Greek history of a post-war migration to help revive the Greek Museum in  Melbourne, noted Greek singers Maria Farantouri and Yiannis Kotsiras will...

A French-Greek journalist and entertainer, known for being host of the French reality program Star Academy, Nikos Aliagas, will be a judge in the French beauty contest 2013 together with other famous people such as the well-known French-Swiss actor,...

The Greek Film Archive is recognized filmmakers who migrated abroad due to financial or political reasons - a phenomenon occurring again because of the country's crushing economic crisis. The archive is working in conjunction with the French Institute of...

One of the best-known Greek saxophone players, with an international career, Dimitri Vassilakis will give three concerts in the British capital as part of the London Jazz Festival. They included appearances on Nov. 15 at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club...

The three most beautiful women in Greece were selected through the Star Hellas Beauty contest on Nov. 14, a glamorous and special designed place in Dream City, where 19 young women impressed the judges and the audience. Ten of...

The Pontifical University Urbaniana in the Vatican hosted this year's International Giuseppe Sciacca Awards celebrating the efforts of young people (aged between 18 and 35 years old) to contribute to the society and provide an example for the future...

The Greek Art Club of Nuremberg in cooperation with Nuremberg Municipality’s Cultural Service Kunst Kultur Quartier Nurnberg and the Greek Film Centre are organizing The Days of Greek Cinema which will be held from Nov. 28-Dec. 3.  In the...

The rapid resignation of CIA Director and former Army General David Petraeus for having an affair with his biographer has put new attention on the affair that Queen Frederika of Greece engaged in with CIA Chief Allen Dulles in...

Laurence Rees, a former creative director of history programs for the BBC and the author of six books on World War II, has put together a report examining the conditions that allowed Adolph Hitler to rise to power in...

Awards for the 53rd International Film Festival of Thessaloniki have been conferred by the International Jury Committee, giving the top prize, the Golden Alexander Theodoros Aggelopoulos-Best Feature Film Award, to the film Kapringen by Tobias Lindholm. Yannis Papadopoulos was named...

The Marathon Flame was lit earlier today in a simple ceremony at the archaeological site of the Marathon Tomb. Despite the cold and the heavy rain, the gathered audience was impressed by the theatrical presentation from Euripides' work "Ιraclides". The...