Conferment of Padma Shri Award to Greek National, Prof. Nicholas Kazanas
The Embassy of India has great pleasure to announce that Prof. Nicholas Kazanas, a Greek national and a distinguished Indologist, has been awarded the...
A special event from a School like no other
The teachers from the worldwide Greek School The Greek Online School, recently received the amazing news that all their students who were Ellinomatheia Exams...
Meteora: a magical 14th century necessity
The six monasteries of Meteora are justifiably a magnet for tourists. The ascetic Greek Orthodox monks who strove for mystical connection with the divine...
Greece dubs 2021 Vaccination Process “Elefteria” on the Bicentennial Commemoration of Greek Independence of 1821
Special to the Hellenic News of America
The first of the 1.2 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines estimated to be received by end of...
“Cultural Diplomacy – The Contribution of Diaspora” web conference organized by AHEPA PATRAS HJ – 25
The contribution of the Hellenic Diaspora in the forging of bilateral cultural relations between Greece and third countries is the key issue of the...
Giannis Antetokounmpo’s play-calling, for defense against COVID-19, in our “court” known as life
Special to the Hellenic News of America
The Greek government launched its latest awareness campaign against Covid-19 just in time for this year’s restricted and...
Greek civilization treasures are not for export or sale
By Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos
In early December 2020, the Greek parliament approved a law for the export of antiquities, including entire museum collections, to foreign...
Greek and Cypriot American organizations receive response from the National Security Council on Varosha Beach
The National Security Council (NSC) responded to an October 30, 2020, joint letter supported by AHEPA and several Greek and Cypriot American organizations that...
Tripping over Pyrgos on Santorini
When I first saw Pyrgos in 2014 it was late afternoon through swirling fog rolling up 700-foot-high cliffs. The mist hugged the low flat...
Greece hopes to emerge as the post pandemic new “Land of Dreams”
Historically, America has been dubbed “the land of opportunity” because millions of immigrants left their own homes to find something in this country not...
A Traditional 2020 Christmas in Greece
How is Greece celebrating 2020 Christmas? Pitsa and Christos Macarounis described strict quarantine measures, with police patrolling the streets of Tripoli, in the Peloponnese....
Tripping over Greece: Naxos
Greece’s long and turbulent civilization lay scattered throughout the country. It’s as easy to stumble across millenniums old remnants of everyday life in the...
Erdogan’s picnic at Varosha
By Andreas Theophanous*
It was not the first time that Erdogan visited the occupied northern part of Cyprus to celebrate the anniversary of the “independence”...
Memories of Greece: Agia Marina, Aegina
Aegina is an easy island to the Athens mainland to go. A sandy beach is what tourists dream of. Before the 2020 pandemic, I...
Greece’s seasons in 2020: Winter, lockdown 1, summer, lockdown 2
Undoubtedly the year 2020 is one of those years that no one will ever forget as it was defined by a pandemic that shifted...
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Conferment of Padma Shri Award to Greek National, Prof. Nicholas Kazanas
The Embassy of India has great pleasure to announce that Prof. Nicholas Kazanas, a Greek national and a distinguished Indologist, has been awarded the...
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ΑΠΟΝΟΜΗ ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟΥ PADMA SHRI (ΠΑΔΜΑ ΣΡΙ) ΣΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΑ ΥΠΗΚΟΟ
Η Πρεσβεία της Ινδίας με μεγάλη χαρά ανακοινώνει ότι στον καθηγητή Νικόλαο Καζάνα, Έλληνα υπήκοο και διαπρεπή Ινδολόγο, απονεμήθηκε το υψηλού κύρους Βραβείο Padma...
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A Christmas Celebration, hosted by Syracuse AHEPANS
By Michael Labatos
Syracuse AHEPA Chapter 37 sponsored the Christmas Dinner for the residents of the AHEPA Home on December 25, 2020. The Syracuse...
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Memories of Greece: Zorbas BBQ, Lasithi, Crete
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past, and we look back on it we do...
Culture
A special event from a School like no other
The teachers from the worldwide Greek School The Greek Online School, recently received the amazing news that all their students who were Ellinomatheia Exams...