Category: Destinations

🔎 Discover Ελληνικά Ιστορικά Αρχεία Ανατολικής Μεσογείου - EΛΙΑΜ, a new digital archive celebrating the rich heritage of Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean.

📌 ELIAM achives unique family documents, photos, films, and oral histories from the 19th and 20th centuries—showcasing Greek diaspora stories from Egypt to Jerusalem and beyond.

🎤Historian and co-founder of ELIAM, Alexander Kitroeff spoke to us about this exciting new project that will bring together printed, visual and audio (e.g. interviews, music, songs) material, following international standards for registration and documentation.

❗️Explore, share, and help keep this vibrant legacy alive at https://eliam.gr

As it is known, the Greco-Roman civilization has formed the foundation stone for Western culture; hence, Greek and Latin were for centuries an integral part of formal education in the West.
It thus natural that Greek quotes often be used in the official insignia of various institutions and organizations, as well as in inscriptions on public buildings, especially schools and universities.

📚📚Οn the occasion of the publication of his new book "Silkboy" (Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο - Ekdoseis Metaixmio, 2024), Reading Greece spoke to writer Kiriakos Haritos about what made him turn to writing #children's books and the challenges of addressing such demanding readers as children.