Category: CULTURE
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Constantine Cavafy: The Poet of the Diaspora
This is the simple, personal biographical note left by the famous Greek poet, Constantine Petrou Photiades Cavafy (1863-1933), who was born in Alexandria, lived between England, France and Istanbul and visited Greece on occasion. He is remembered for his humble, solitary lifestyle and the underlying, implied homosexuality in his writing. He is revered for the…
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Cavafy’s Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Liminality
Cavafy was born (in 1863) and spent most of his life in the periphery of the Greek-speaking world, in Alexandria, Egypt, where he died in 1933. Although a fervent patriot and lover of all things Greek, his cosmopolitan experiences (he spent some years of his childhood in England and of his late adolescence in Constantinople)…
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Archaeologists uncover 17 mummies in Egyptian necropolis
The discovery was made in the village of Tuna al-Gabal, a vast archaeological site on the edge of the western desert. The area hosts a large necropolis for thousands of mummified ibis and baboon birds as well as other animals. It also includes tombs and a funerary building. “It’s the first human necropolis to be…
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Movie review: ‘The Promise’
I urge you to watch The Promise. It’s an epic movie. Actor Christian Bale plays a great character as Chris Myers, an American reporter, who exposes the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocide. Chris Myers was a true American reporter who reported on the truth. Not what you see in today’s fake news American media outlets…