ERT spreads its wings, packs its most valuable content and embarks on a journey to connect with the Greek diaspora, bringing them closer to Greece. Under the banner “ERTFLIX: Bringing you closer to home”, ERT’s international expansion aims to serve as a communication bridge between the Greek diaspora and Greece. ERT’s new TV series, Greek cinema and music programs offer diverse entertainment options as well as excellent scientific and historical documentaries and cultural programs, all of which paint a vivid picture of Greece’s rich history while revealing its modern identity. “ERTFLIX envisions a global Greek community, proud of the image…
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Pablo Picasso once described artists as political beings, constantly aware of the heartbreaking events happening in the world. “Painting is not made to decorate apartments,” he says. “It is an offensive and defensive weapon.”For many artists from the Arab world who witnessed the war takes place in Gazaturning their art into a weapon became for them the only way to deal with tragedies.A black and white print of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem serves as the backdrop for Emirati artist Aysha Almadhani’s latest work, which she shared on Instagram last week. On top, it is finely embroidered with flowers…
Greek organization Corallia helps small businesses grow and conquer global markets through a network of business accelerators and mentoring programs. In this episode of Smart Regions, we met the people behind Corallia, a unit of the Athena Research Center in Greece that brings together high-tech clusters, business incubators and extensive entrepreneurship programs. Corallia’s goal is to help local businesses and start-ups grow from scratch and reach the international stage.Corallia works with more than 500 innovative companies and has created three high-tech clusters, an attractive proposition for investors, who have so far injected more than €500 million of private and foreign…
When we think of the American Jewish diaspora, our minds generally don’t think of the South. This is God’s country – more specifically, Jesus Christ’s country. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t thousands of Jews living in the area. Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem and Adam Carlin, co-directors of Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum in North Carolina, connect to this community through social practices. The museum, which has no physical headquarters, began in 2019 when Gugenheim Kedem was invited to become an artist in residence at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She worked in the small Jewish studies program, which brought…
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, Kappa Upsilon Omega chapter hosted the largest Cluster VI reunion September 22-23 in Aiken. More than 950 members were welcomed to USC Aiken, where history was made with the largest sit-down meal served in the school’s Convocation Center.Aiken is known for its thoroughbred horse racing, African-American history and was the perfect theme for the event, Soaring to the Aiken Races.During the cluster meeting, members demonstrated their service to the Aiken community by donating more than 2,500 food items to support the sorority’s Childhood Hunger Initiative Power Pack program. These donations will provide local children with…
“You appreciate the burnt amber of falling leavesAnd you want to delayAs you feel their breath as they whisper”It won’t hurt you to betray nowIf you just bow down”» -Elvis Costello, “You Bowed” I live on Staten Island, right next to St. John Villa Academy, a former Catholic school that New York Mayor Eric Adam’s administration had turned into a shelter for incoming migrants (due to security violations fire in the building that the migrants have had since then). been moved to a hotel in Manhattan). To say the shelter had become a hot topic among local residents would be…
A doctoral student in chemistry wins the sixth edition of the Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge Published on April 11, 2023 by In 2019, East Carolina University graduate student Elizabeth LaFave was analyzing samples for the Country Doctor Museum to Bailey. This relationship quickly revealed that the museum was suffering from the effects of COVID-19 and had few visitors. This experience inspired LaFave to create Invenire, an app that presents virtual tours of small museums, helping to grow their audiences and expand their reach beyond those accessible by car. This innovative thinking led her to finish first in this year’s competition. Pirate…
India calls for parity in diplomatic presence in the face of Canada’s allegations. | Picture: P.A.In a sharp rebuttal, the Foreign Ministry rejected the idea that India had violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a claim made by the Canadian government on Thursday. The whole debacle began after Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly confirmed that Ottawa was following New Delhi’s order and expelling 41 Canadian diplomats from India. The confirmation of the departure follows two weeks of negotiations between India and Canada after New Delhi demanded “parity” in the number of diplomats present in the two countries.In a statement…
When Pidgeon Pagonis was born in a Chicago hospital 37 years ago, her doctors saw something that alarmed them. “I was born looking feminine on the outside,” Pagonis said, “and then it was discovered that inside my body I didn’t completely have the parts that would be considered feminine.”Pidgeon (whose birth name is Jennifer) looked like a little girl. But instead of ovaries there were internal testicles, and instead of XX chromosomes, Pidgeon had the XY male combination. Pidgeon Pagonis was born intersex. And she’s not alone. According to statistics cited by the United Nations, 0.05 to 1.7 percent of…
Ohio gained its first World Heritage Site, becoming the 25th in the United States and one of approximately 1,000 sites worldwide.The African nation of Rwanda has had its first two inscriptions on the World Heritage List.Three new “memory sites” – places where an event occurred that a nation and its people, or certain communities wish to commemorate, according to UNESCO – were added during the session.The World Heritage List has designated 42 world treasures as the latest UNESCO World Heritage List. World Heritage sites. Since its creation in 1972The World Heritage Convention has inscribed sites of “outstanding universal value” and…