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The first expedition to the "Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan, central Asia, had a Greek scent. More than four decades ago a crater opened up in the desert of northern Turkmenistan, likely the result of a drilling mishap. The Darvaza Crater,  known...

An Arab version of the classical Greek play "Antigone" was brought to life on stage by students of Georgetown University in Qatar. The play focuses on the social, legal and spiritual dynamics of a war-torn dynasty, with the daughter of...

“Playing with Fire” is a new documentary by Greek director and actress Anneta Papathanassiou who decided to teach Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy Antigone to women in Afghanistan. The documentary was shot one year ago in Kabul and depicts the lives of women...

In light of the last World Cup game between Greece and Costa Rica, played in 2014, we decided to focus on the “Greek side” of Costa Rica, and more specifically on three towns in the country which have Greek names. Grecia, which...

A photo exhibition, “The Greeks of Cairo,” is being hosted at the Museum of Modern Art Mahmoud Mukhtar in the Egyptian capital. Paul Kozalidis and Athena Casole captured with their photo cameras, the Greek history of the community in Cairo from the...

Costa Rica stunned the football world by beating former champions Italy and Uruguay in the World Cup. Here are 5 things you need to know for this surprise World Cup team!

It seems like Greece is attracting more and more Chinese tourists. Sun Yanan, officer at the visa issuing organization in Beijing, China stated that about 40,000 Chinese tourists applied for a visa in 2013. The total number of tourists travelling...

Tattoos -- especially those depicting Kanji characters -- have become some of the most talked about body art failures in Asia during the 2014 World Cup. It takes a global event on a World-Cup scale, to realize how foreign cultures really...

Religious vandalism has been on the rise during the last few years, perpetrated mainly by Muslim and Jewish adolescents.  Their aim is to vandalize monuments, temples, holy sites, as well as cemeteries of other religious communities. On June 13 new...

  Sotiris Chatzakis, artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, was invited to Beijing to attend the 2nd International Master Workshop of Theatre and Theatre Companies Management from June 6 to 8 which was organized by the China Collaborative Innovation Center...