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📚📚Regional #libraries play a crucial role in preserving, processing, maintaining, and promoting the intellectual heritage of communities, offering free and equal access to all. Libraries also preserve both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, through the collection, documentation, and digitization of personal testimonies and memorabilia, transforming them into sources of information, research, and education for both Greece and the wider world.

Reading Greece spoke to Paraskevi Choudalaki, Head of Libraries & Creative Activities Center for Children of the Municipality of Chania, about the libraries of the Municipality of Chania, the great wealth of #books and archives that are housed there, the main challenges they are faced with, and the prospects ahead.

Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη Χανίων
Δήμος Χανίων - Municipality of Chania
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Reading Greece: The Libraries of the Municipality of Chania as Dynamic Centers of Culture and Incubators of Knowledge and Democracy
Regional libraries play a crucial role in preserving, processing, maintaining, and promoting the intellectual heritage of communities, offering free and equal access to all. Every citizen is served without discrimination and encouraged to participate actively. Libraries also preserve both tangible a...
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📚📚Distinguished translator Εleana Ziakou spoke to Reading Greece about the challenges of translating Greek #literature into Albanian and vice versa, and the crucial role of #translators as cultural ambassadors fostering deeper understanding between peoples and cultures.

"Translators are the invisible hand that ensures the perpetuation of the author’s name and work beyond national borders. A world without translators would resemble the setting of the Tower of Babel, doomed to incoherence".
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Reading Greece: Eleana Ziakou on the Decisive Role of Translators as Cultural Ambassadors Fostering Deeper Understanding between Peoples and Countries
Eleana Ziakou graduated from the Department of International and European Studies of Panteion University and the Department of Literature and Albanian Language of the University of Tirana. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental and Energy Law from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium...
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🎬🇬🇷 Celebrating the cinematic genius of Mikis Theodorakis on what would be his 100th birthday!

🎵From the unforgettable “𝘡𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘢’𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦” that swept across the world, to powerful scores for films like 𝐙, 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐨, and 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐚, Theodorakis didn’t just compose music — he brought stories to life, often under incredible personal hardship like imprisonment and exile.

His music earned him Golden Globe, Grammy, and BAFTA nominations and awards, and continues to resonate far beyond Greece’s borders.

👉 Read more about his extraordinary cinematic legacy: [http://bit.ly/4eDGFzy]

📷Edith Piaf, under the direction of Mikis Theodorakis, sings the theme from the film “Les Amants de Teruel”

#mikistheodorakis #greekcinema #filmmusic #100yearsofmikis
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