Interviews
Archaeology
Greek Antiquities Expert Foils Auction of Priceless Artifacts from 480 BC
Greek professor Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis, who has been previously profiled in Greek Reporter for his relentless pursuit of art thieves, has once again stopped what would have been another theft of a priceless piece of Greek history.
A Greek wine...
Celebrities
John DeDakis Talks ‘The Situation Room,’ New Book and Digital Age
Author and journalist John DeDakis spoke with Greek Reporter recently about his new book "Fake (A Lark Chadwick Mystery)" and his Greek heritage.
The longtime television editor explains "I was a copy editor for CNN's 'The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer'...
Business
Can Greece Become a Filming Hub? New Incentives Attract International Productions
With Mickey Rourke currently filming in Aegina and few more international projects lined up for the summer, Greece is in the process of making further improvements to its highly successful 2018 incentive scheme for audiovisual productions, with the aim...
Greece
American Philhellene On How You Can Help Greece From Afar
Dorothy Lobel King, an American author and archaeologist who lives and works in London, is a noted philhellene who has spent much of her professional life writing about ancient Greece and its enormous contributions to western civilization.
She is also...
Greece
Greek Diaspora Struggles to Maintain Ties to Homeland in Coronavirus Times
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By Sean Mathews
As the coronavirus drags on and lockdown fatigue increases, Dino Gerousis says he has found himself dreaming of the small fishing villages on the Ionian island of Kefalonia an average of 3 times a week.
For Gerousis, a...
Business
Greeks Resort to Cutting Hair at Home as Black Economy Thrives Amid Lockdown
“I don't believe it,” says hairstylist Giannis Dionysopoulos of the the poll which showed that visiting the barbers or the hairdressers is a top priority for Greeks once the lockdown is lifted.
Dionysopoulos, whose shop in the town of Pyrgos...
Greece
Irresponsible Ten Percent Threaten to Undermine Greek Coronavirus Success
Despite the travel restrictions imposed by Greek authorities to contain the spread of the coronavirus, many city dwellers have still somehow managed to travel to the Aegean islands to celebrate Easter.
Speaking to Greek Reporter on Friday, Jonathan Wickens, a...
Environment
The Quiet Earth: Seismic Noise in Greece Has Fallen Tenfold Since Lockdown
A study by Greek experts on "seismic noise" in the country since the imposition of the severe restrictions on movement this Spring has shown that this background noise has been reduced by a factor of ten.
Seismic noise is a...
Greece
Greece to Lose At Least Half of Tourism Revenues Due to Coronavirus
The Greek tourist industry is facing an unprecedented crisis in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and is set to lose at least fifty percent of its revenue in 2020, Grigoris Tasios, President of the Greek Hoteliers Association, said...
Greece
Greece's Aegean Islands Dread Spread of Coronavirus Over Easter
Following the imposition of curfew measures for Santorini and Mykonos on Sunday, mayors of some smaller Greek islands are demanding a ban on all arrivals, especially over Easter, to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Among those islands is Tilos, in...
Greece
MSF Says Greece's Moria Migrant Camp is a Coronavirus "Time Bomb"
The migrant camp at Moria, on the island of Lesvos, the largest in Greece, is a "time bomb" waiting to explode as the coronavirus has spread to the local population, an official from the group Doctors without Borders (MSF)...
Greece
Greece Emerges as International Model for Coronavirus Early Response
Greece's early response to the Coronavirus pandemic has been praised by international experts as well as many media outlets. We asked an international health expert and a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Imperial College, Filippos Filippidis, to asses Greece's response.
The early recognition...
Diaspora
Exclusive: What It’s Like to Live Under Coronavirus Lockdown in Italy
"We are totally in the black since yesterday evening, like we are under arrest.” So says Anna Ioanna Patiri, a Greek woman living in the town of Imola, just outside the northern Italian city of Bologna. She, along with...
Greece
Homesteading British Couple Create Blissful Greek Haven on Crete
A millennial couple who quit their routine, predictable lives in the UK to live an alternative life outside a small village on the Greek island of Crete say that it was the "best decision they could have made."
Stephanie and...
Culture
Hundreds of Students Celebrate Greek Language and Culture in Italy
Hundreds of students from Italy and Greece participated in the five-day-long celebration of the Greek language which took place in Naples this week.
Prominent lecturers and historians explained how the Greek language developed, shaped and expressed the majority of scientific...