2nd Ambassador’s Forum in Greece

US Ambassador outlines US foreign policy
(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) Within the framework of the Foreign Ministry’s of Greece. 2nd Ambassadors’ Forum – an initiative aimed at promoting discussion and dialogue on foreig,n policy issues – U.S. Ambassador to Athens Daniel Speckhard spoke on American foreign policy. Main issues addressed included national security, global economy, environmental problems, [...]

Hellenic Culture Abroad

Greek Cinema in Edinburgh
(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) The Greek Film Festival is returning to Edinburgh for the first time in three years, featuring classic and contemporary films that celebrate the quality and diversity of Greek cinema. The festival will open with the film “A Touch of Spice,” an epic story about the Greek minority in Istanbul. [...]

Hellenic Culture Abroad

Greek Poetry in Turkey
(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) The works of Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis, Constantine Cavafy and Yannis Ritsos, three of the most distinguished Greek poets of the 20th century, have been translated into the Turkish language, thanks to poet Özdemir İnce. İnce, who begun his Greek endeavor with Ritsos and won the Turkish Language Institute’s [...]

Greek excavations on Kuwait’s Failaka isle reveal Hellenistic period findings

(ATHENS NEWS AGENCY-MACEDONIAN PRESS AGENCY)  Archaeological excavations on Failaka Island, located 20 km off the coast of Kuwait City in the extreme western end of the Persian Gulf, have brought to light a series of significant Hellenistic period findings, beginning roughly during the period immediately following the death of Alexander the Great. Remains of a [...]