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Thessaloniki: Battle of the Year Balkans 2012


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 25 May 2012 

Break-dance festival Battle of the Year Balkans 2012 is celebrating 10 years since it first started in Greece. Launch: Vassiliko Theatre, May 26th 2012    (more...)

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Barcelona: Sonar 2012


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 23 May 2012 

Imagine a one week advanced music and new media art party. At the size of Barcelona. Hundreds of thousands of people dancing and partying. A worldwide renowned cultural landmark of electronic attitude. Now stop imagining and start packing… (more...)

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Dialogue On The Transition To A Green Greece


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 17 May 2012 

Despite the difficult economic situation in Greece, the electronic Public Dialogue "Transition to a Green Greece 2010-2020" organized by ELIAMEP, ELET and Panteio University gained the trust and respect of key stakeholders. University professors, experts, representatives of the local government and the civil...

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Greece: UNHCR Expresses Reservations On The New Detention Centres For Irregular Migrants


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 16 May 2012 

A UNHCR delegation visited a few days ago the new detention centre for migrants in Amydaleza (northwest of Athens), in the framework of regular visits to facilities used for the administrative detention of migrants throughout Greece. At the time of the visit, there were 56 persons detained in one cluster...

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Muriel Spark: Morality and Betrayal in “The prime of Miss Jean Brodie”


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 15 May 2012 

Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was an award–winning Scottish novelist, named as one of “the greatest writers since 1945”. Born in Edinburgh, she began writing after World War II and started with poetry and literary criticism. In 1954 she decided to join the Roman Catholic Church and this crucial decision...

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Thessaloniki: Giannis Kyratsos at Mylos Club


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 09 May 2012 

Giannis Kyratsos, three years after his debut album, presents on Thursday, May 10 at Mylos Club his new album "I close my eyes to see", which is released by the company Polytropon. (more...)

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Graham Swift: History as Myth in “Waterland”


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 08 May 2012 

In recent discourses about the methods that historians use, postmodernism has been raised as either a new practice that could help them reach their aesthetic and creative potential or as a dangerous kind of relativism that could dissolve cohesion. Postmodern historiography or “constructivist historicism”...

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Moshin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist


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 01 May 2012 

Moshin Hamid’s[i] novel “The Reluctant Fundamentalism[ii]” is full of allegories and hidden messages. Already from the title the reader tries to redefine the meaning of the word fundamentalist and find how it is connected with the rest of the book. (more...)

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