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📚📚Distinguished translator Eleana 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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Reading Greece3 days ago
ΤHE INTERNATIONAL CAVAFY SUMMER SCHOOL IS ON!

The International Cavafy Summer School returned for its seventh year, inviting academics and early-career researchers from across the world to attend a week of seminars, presentations, and discussions centering on Cavafy’s work in relation to Egypt.

Twelve researchers and students from Universities in Greece and abroad meet in Athens for a series of workshops, presentations, and discussions on the multiple ways the Alexandrian poet's work engages with Egypt. The participants discussed Cavafy's Alexandria, his engagement with Hellenistic antiquity, as well as the varying forms of nostalgia expressed in the works of Cavafy, Marinetti, and Ungaretti.

This year's Cavafy Summer School sessions will continue until Saturday, July 12.

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International Cavafy Summer School 2025: Cavafy and Egypt | Educational program | Onassis Foundation
The International Cavafy Summer School is returning for its seventh year, inviting academics and early-career researchers from across the world to attend a week of seminars, presentations, and discussions centering on Cavafy’s work in relation to Egypt.
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Reading Greece3 days ago
📚📚Τhe 8th Θερινό Βιβλιοστάσιο opens its doors on Friday 11 July at the Μunicipal Market of Kypseli [Δημοτική Αγορά Κυψέλης] and for 3 days will turn the center of Athens into an oasis of #books at the heart of the summer!

Book lovers will once again will have the chance to meet and talk about books, #literature and theory, exchange ideas, and escape from the everyday life of the city. Living in a demanding and often suffocating surrounding environment, books continue to touch our innermost chords, motivate us, bring us into contact with the unfamiliar, with the new, push us to build new communities, provide an occasion for reflection and creative development, aiming widen the cracks of an uncanny reality.

To learn more 👉https://www.facebook.com/bibliostasio

Stay tuned and enjoy the festivities!
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