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Christmas and New Year’s Carols From All Over Greece Kalanta, Nikiforos Lytras, 1872. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Although Greece is known internationally as a top summertime destination, the Mediterranean country is also quite festive during the winter. Greece is steeped in fascinating holiday traditions, with its Christmas carols, or  kalanda, being some of the most heartwarming seasonal customs. Every year, Greeks anxiously await Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, and January 5, the day befor...

Press release UNESCO assembles peoples around transnational traditions like couscous, one of 32 new inscriptions on its Intangible Heritage Lists 16/12/2020 Share this article Paris, 17 December — During this year’s session (14 to 19 December, online), the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed three elements on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, and 29 elements on the Representativ...

Historical revisionist Arben P. Llalla. Arben P. Llalla, who lives permanently in Tetovo in North Macedonia, published a new book. The book is funded by the North Macedonian Ministry of Culture – that makes some of the most ludicrous claims that the only response is to laugh. The claims in the book are so laughable that the so-called historian claims Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as the words of Zeus, Nemesis and Rhea, are Albanian. He even claims that 60% of Greeks are Albanian, b...

Polyphonic Caravan selected for UNESCO Register of Safeguarding Epirus folk songs December 18, 2020 644 Views The Polyphonic Caravan, a project researching, safeguarding and promoting the Epirus polyphonic song has been selected in 2020 on the UNESCO Register of Good Safeguarding Practices The Polyphonic Caravan is a longstanding project aimed at researching, safeguarding and promoting the Epirus polyphonic song. Performed for centuries, the Epirus polyphonic song is performed by a group of s...

Epirus acquires two more allies in the effort to implement the expansion of the Ionian Road from Ioannina to Kakavia. Both the Hellenic Motorists Federation and KEDE are in favor of the construction of the section that completes the Ionian Road. A few days ago, the president of OFAE, Apostolos Kenanidis, was in Ioannina and captured the difficult reality of motorists, especially those who make international transports and experience -aside from other difficulties-anxiety, as they are constantly...

Nonfiction by "Wild Swims," a new collection by the Danish writer, showcases her ability to use narrative blank spots and unresolved situations as devices to lure readers into her work. One of the great joys of oral storytelling is the intimacy often forged between a talented speaker and an audience, which can transform any room into a two-person confessional, a late-night phone call, or a conversation with the stranger at the nearest barstool. I’ve been thinking about this kind of intimacy ...

Modern Greek Literature,  Inside (and) Out It has never been possible to speak of Greece in terms of a simple opposition between what it contains on the inside, and what lies beyond its borders. Even before the founding of the Greek state in 1830, independence was actively pursued by bourgeois, cosmopolitan Greeks living in cities as far-flung as Istanbul, Alexandria, Odessa, and Marseilles. Greece was, then, an idea long before it was a reality—an idea promoted, in large part, by the litera...

Biographical Note Emily Mackil (Ph.D. Princeton University, 2003) is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon (Berkeley, 2013). Nikolaos Papazarkadas (DPhil Oxford, 2004) is the Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a senior editor of SEG and co-editor of From Document to His...

Election. and i would say with all respect to my friend from pennsylvania, senator santorum, there is a big difference between being a good team member and changing the game. >> and i cant believe im actually saying this, but the man we hated to see leave the race may have summed it up all rather accurately. >> well, it wasnt a super night for anyone when you think about it being super tuesday. >> please, rick, come back. all is forgiven. joining us now, our panel, michele cottle, a writer for n...