Our golden modern Greeks!

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Aglaia Coronio (nee Ionides)





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Aglaia Coronio and her cousins Maria Zambaco and Maria Spartali were known collectively among friends as "the Three Graces", after the Charites of Greek mythology (Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia), as all three were noted beauties of Greek heritage.


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Aglaia Coronio (1834-1906), for whom this watercolour was painted, was the daughter of Alexander Ionides, an important patron of the Pre-Raphaelites and Morris and Co. She was a confidante of William Morris and a close friend of Burne-Jones. Georgiana Burne-Jones (Memorials, II, p.96) recalled her assist-ance, "his friend Mrs. Coronio, whose perfect taste had helped him a hundred times by finding fabrics and arranging dresses for models". In 1906, severely depressed by the death of her daughter Calliope, she committed suicide.

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Chryss Goulandris, Lady O'Reilly


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chryss_Goulandris


Chryss Goulandris, Lady O'Reilly (born 27 June 1950), also known as Christina or Chryssanthie, is one of the richest women associated with Ireland. Holder of USA and Greek citizenship, she owns a major horse breeding operation located in Ireland, France and other countries, and chairperson of the Irish National Stud for over a decade, she is also the wife of media and industrial magnate Tony O'Reilly and a director of luxury goods maker Waterford Wedgwood.

Goulandris was born in the USA to George Goulandris, a wealthy member of*greek family of ship owners and operators, and of Maria Lemos, also from a Greek shipping dynasty. The family lived at the time in the Savoy Palace Hotel, with homes also in Greece, Connecticut, Switzerland and the Bahamas.


Goulandris owns, breeds, trains and races horses under a number of house names, including at least Castlemartin Stud (shared with her husband), Petra Bloodstock Agency, Skymarc Farm and Hesmonds Stud. Castlemartin Stud is situated on the estate around one of her principal homes, with operations in multiple countries, and her horses are trained in Ireland, England, Normandy in France and in the USA at a stud called Matagorda, with many trainers employed across the various locations.

Two of her uncles were involved in racing, one, George, winning the English Oaks in 1962 and another, Constantin, owning the La Louviere Stud in France. She bought her first racing horse, a yearling filly, in 1976, and in 1978, following her uncle Constantin’s death, took over La Louviere Stud.

At the end of October 2006, Goulandris had around 100 horses in training, and 128 brood mares. Her operations have a policy of selling male foals, and one of those sold won the 1996 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, while one retained was European champion miler in 1991. In all, she has bred 11 Group 1 winners, including two wins at Royal Ascot.


National Stud
In 1993, Goulandris was appointed to the board of the Irish National Stud by the Minister for Agriculture, and in early June 1998, she was made its chairperson by Joe Walsh, in succession to David Shubotham[4], a post she continues to hold.


Wealth
Estimates of personal wealth have varied greatly but have exceeded 400 million USD since the early 1990’s. In June 2004, it was reported that she would be a major beneficiary of the sale of a family-owned unit of land in New York, assembled in the 1970s at a cost of about 25 million USD, for around 400 million USD[5] and in 2005, her personal wealth was estimated at 442 million UK pounds[1].

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english.capital.gr/news.asp?id=448460


Greek Shipowners To Leave London And Return To Greece


The Greek shipowners installed in London are likely to return to Athens due to the new British tax regulations, according to Dow Jones Newswire.

The new British tax regulations will force Greek shipowners to pay some £ 30,000 annually in order to keep their foreign earnings untaxed.

About 100 Greek shipping families are installed in London and control 20% of the Greek fleet, the world´s largest. They are estimated to contribute around £ 12 billion annually to the British financial services.

Many of them are already running part of their businesses from Athens, where they enjoy offshore status and do not pay taxes on their foreign income. Athens already houses a booming shipping industry based on improved infrastructures and a favourable legal framework.

The arrival of the Greek shipping community to Athens could strengthen the city´s bid to establish its position as a global shipping services centre and would be a boon for Greek banks.

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Here you can read many about Hellenism in Britain.

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26.THE GREEKS OF AFRICA


(Mostly Egypt and South Africa)





A.EGYPT


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Egypt


Greeks have been living in Egypt since the ancient times. Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century BCE, wrote that the Greeks were the first foreigners that ever lived in Egypt.

The Greek community of Alexandria was founded in 1843. In 1907 the official census showed 62,973 Greeks living in Egypt. By 1940 Greeks were numbered at about 250,000. The Greek community in Alexandria lived around the Church and monastery of Agios Savvas. In the same area there was a quest house for Greek travellers, a Greek hospital and later a Greek school. The Orthodox bishop was based in Damietta in the church of Agios Nikolaos.

In Cairo, the Greek community was founded in 1856, with the community based in three main neighbourhoods: Tzouonia, Haret el Roum (Street of the Greeks), and in Hamzaoui. The patriarchate was based in Haret el Roum, near the church of Saint Marcus. The monastery of Saint George, in Old Cairo still survives . The monastery is surrounded by a huge wall and on topped by a stone tower. Within its walls there is a Greek hospital, a school and housing for the elderly, and poor.

In addition to the Greek communities of Alexandria and Cairo there were the Greek communities of El Mansurah, founded in 1860, the Port Said founded in 1870, Tanta in 1880, and the community of Zayazik in 1870]. There were fifteen smaller communities across Egypt and mainly around Cairo and Alexandria. In Upper Egypt the oldest ancient Greek community is the one of Minia which was founded in 1862.

The contribution of the Greek population in the financial life of Egypt was very important. It was the Greek agriculturists and farmers that first systematically and with scientific planning, have cultivated cotton and tobacco. They improved the quantity and quality of the production and have dominated the cotton and tobacco commerce doing large exports. Notable families that dominated the commerce of tobacco were the Salvagos, Benakis, Rodochanakis and Zervoudachis.[4] The tobacco breeds used for the cigarettes manufacturing was purely of Greek origin. A thriving commerce between Greece and Egypt was thus established. Other areas of interest for the Greek Egyptians were the fus, food, winery, soap, wood craft, typing industries. The first banks in Egypt were created by Greeks like the Bank of Alexandria, the Anglo-Egyptian bank (Sunadinos family) and the General Bank of Alexandria. There were many Greek theatres and cinemas. Major Greek newspapers were Ta grammata (ÃñÜììáôá) and Nea Zoi (ÍÝá ÆùÞ).[5] The Greek community in Egypt has produced numerous artists, writers, diplomats and politicians. The most famous of them was the poet Konstantinos Kavafis.

During the Balkan wars, the Greek communities of Egypt sent volunteers, funded hospitals, and accommodated families of the soldiers. During World War II (1940 - 1945), more than 7,000 Greeks fought for the Allies in the Middle East. 142 people died while their financial contribution reached 2,500 million Egyptian pounds.[6] After the Suez Crisis the British and French laborers left while the Greeks stayed.

The emergence of*greek aristocracy that consisted of rich industrialists, commercants and bankers has led to the great legacy of Egyptiot Greek philanthropism. These benefactors have donated large amounts for the building of schools, academies, hospitals and institutions in both Egypt and their mother land Greece. Mihail Tositsas has donated large amounts for the building of the Athens University, the Amalio Orphanage and the Athens Polytechnic. His wife Eleni Tositsa has donated the land for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. George Averoff has also helped for the building of the National Technical University of Athens, the Evelpidon Military Academy and the donation of the Greek cruiser Georgios Averof to the Hellenic Navy. Emmanouel Benakis has helped for the building of the National Gallery of Athens while his son Antonis Benakis was the founder of the Benaki Museum. Other major benefactors include Nikolaos Stournaris, Theodoros Kotsikas, Nestoras Tsanaklis, Konstantinos Horemis, Stefanos Delta, Penelope Delta, Pantazis Vassanis and Vassilis Sivitanidis.[4]


Exodus
The exodus of Greeks from Egypt started during and after the revolution of 1952. With the establishment of the new sovereign regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the subsequent nationalisation of many industries from 1957 and afterwards, thousands Greeks had to abandon the country. Many of them have immigrated to Australia, the United States and Greece. Many Greek schools, churches, small communities and institutions have subsequently closed. The Nasser regime was a major disaster for the Greek diaspora which afterwards has dwindled from many thousands to a handful. The dangerous situation in the Middle East has also deteriorated the conditions for the Greeks that stayed back in Egypt. It is estimated that between 1957 - 1962 almost 70% of the Egyptiot Greeks have left the country.


Today
Today the Greek community numbers officially about 3,000 people although the real number is much higher since many Greeks have changed their nationality to Egyptian.[citation needed] In Alexandria, apart from the patriarchate, there is a patriarchical theology school that opened recently after 480 years being closed. Saint Nicolas church and several other buildings in Alexandria have been recently renovated by the Greek Government and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. During the last decade, there has been a new interest from the Egyptian government for a diplomatic rapprochement with Greece and this has positively affected the Greek diaspora. The diaspora has received official visits of many Greek politicians. Economic relationships have been blossoming between Greece and Egypt. Egypt has been recently[when?] the centre of major Greek investments in banking, tourism, paper and oil industry and many others.



Constantine P. Cavafy
Yorgos Seferis
Nikos Nicolaides
Dionysios Kasdaglis
Kostas Skarvelis
Stephanos P. Tamvakis
Antigone Costanda
Jean Desses
Yousef Chahine
Kimon Evan Marengo
Nelly Mazloum
Georges Moustaki
Nagui
Marina Papaelia
Demis Roussos
George Averoff
Michail Tositsas
Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria
Constantin Xenakis
Constantinos Speras
Stratis Tsirkas
Maria Iordanidou
Giannis Loizos
Manos Loïzos
Gina Bachauer
Timos Malanos
Thomas Thomopoulos
Giannis Christou
Konstantinos Parthenis
Antonis Benakis
Emmanouel Benakis
Penelope Delta
Phoevos Polyxroniadis





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B.SOUTH AFRICA


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_South_Africa


The Greek community in South Africa numbers 13,000 people.

Notable people of the diaspora.

George Bizos
Leonidas Messaris
Stanley Christodoulou
George Koumantarakis
Dennis Philippides
Ivan Gazidis
Nic Pothas
Anastasia Tsichlas

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Constantine P. Cavafy


see category : 4.AUTHORS-part (A)

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Dionysios Kasdaglis

from wikipedia

Dionysios Kasdaglis (1880 - ?) was a Greek-Egyptian tennis player. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens
Kasdaglis, the only competitor from Egypt, made it to the finals in both the singles and doubles events. In the singles, he defeated Defert of France in the first round, Konstantinos Akratopoulos of Greece in the second, and Momcsilló Tapavicza of Hungary in the semifinals before facing John Pius Boland of Great Britain and Ireland in the final. Boland proved the better player, and Kasdaglis finished second. The medal is credited to Kasdaglis as a Greek by the International Olympic Committee.

For the doubles tournament, Kasdaglis paired with Demetrios Petrokokkinos in a mixed team.[1] They defeated the Greeks Konstantinos Paspatis and Evangelos Rallis in the first round and the British/Australian pair of George S. Robertson and Edwin Flack in the semifinals. In the final, Kasdaglis again faced Boland, this time paired with Friedrich Traun of Germany. Kasdaglis and Petrokokkinos lost that match to give Kasdaglis his second silver medal.

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Antigone Costanda


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Antigone Costanda was the winner of the Miss World beauty pageant in 1954, representing Egypt. The pageant was held on October 18, 1954 in London, England, 16 contestants participated. In addition to Arabic she speaks Greek, English, Italian and French fluently. Her total points overall in the Miss World event were 7.941, ranked 4th. The Greek-Egyptian beauty was the first Miss Egypt candidate to win the title for Egypt.

According to Eric Morley's 1967 book, "The Miss World Story", Costanda was positively beaming as she claimed her victory was also for third runner-up status of Marina Papaelia, 1953's Miss Egypt.

The following year, during the 1955 Miss World beauty pageant held in London, Costanda did not attend the event because of political hostilities between Egypt and Britain over the Suez Canal. British actress Eunice Gayson crowned Miss Venezuela as the new Miss World.

Prior to winning Miss World, Costanda was gaining experience in the modelling profession, her face appearing in numerous publications. Winning Miss World further helped her to reach the top of her profession, becoming a successful model in the Middle East, France, Italy and Greece. Her career in later years moved into interior design; she ran a company designing the interior of business buildings.

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Jean Desses


from wikipedia


Jean Desses (August 6, 1904 – August 2, 1970), was a world leading fashion designer in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. His designs reflected the influences of his travels, specializing in creating draped evening gowns in chiffon and mousseline, based on early Greek and Egyptian robes.


Biography
Born Jean Dimitre Verginie in Alexandria, Egypt, to Greek parents , he originally set out to study law, but, in 1925, he abandoned his legal studies and began working for Maison Jane, a Parisian couture house where, in 1937, he opened his own couture salon. After World War II, he traveled extensively throughout the world. His work was influenced by his travels, creating draped evening gowns in chiffon, embroidered dresses, sheath dresses with tight jackets and flowing skirts. His fashion was very popular with European royalty and movie stars. Among his clientele were the Queen and royal princesses of Greece, the Duchess of Windsor and society hostess Elsa Maxwell. In 1962, he designed the wedding gown worn by Princess Sophia of Greece (later Queen Sofia of Spain) for her marriage to the future King Juan Carlos of Spain.Valentino worked with Desses for several years in the 1950s and gained much hands-on experience, as did Guy Laroche who in the 1950s was Desses' assistant.

In 1963, at age 60, he retired to Greece because of poor health, where he ran a small boutique which he had opened eight years earlier. He died in Athens in 1970. In the 1990s, his fashion designs saw a revival with the interest in vintage dresses. Naomi Campbell wore a vintage boned bodice and ruched silk Desses gown in May 1999 at a Christie's party. Later, in 2001, Renée Zellweger wore a lemon yellow strapless 1950s Desses gown to the Academy Awards. Similarly, Jennifer Lopez wore a vintage moss green Desses gown, made with 50 yards of chiffon, to the 2006 Academy Awards.

The fashion designer Jean Desses brought also out a perfume called Kalispera.

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Kimon Evan Marengo


from wikipedia


Kimon Evan Marengo (January 22, 1904 – December 2, 1988), better known for his pen name Kem, was an Egyptian-born British cartoonist in Zifta, Egypt. He was the son of Evangelos Marangos, a Greek cotton merchant.[1]

Marengo grew up in the Greek community in Alexandria, Egypt. In his childhood he produced his own satirical hobby magazine. In 1929 he went to study at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris, graduating in 1931. He began to draw cartoons for newspapers, including Le Canard Enchaine, Le Petit Parisien, the Daily Herald and The Daily Telegraph.

Marengo attended the University of Oxford in 1939, but when World War II erupted, he joined the Ministry of Information and drew 3.000 propaganda posters, leaflets, and political cartoons in various languages, including three dialects of Arabic and Persian. This included British propaganda effort to get the support of the Persians. He wrote eight books. He was also involved with the Political Warfare Executive in the French and North African and later Middle East matters.

After the war Marengo went back to his studies in Oxford and graduated at the end of 1946 due to accelerated BA programme. His eventual thesis was The Cartoon as a Political Weapon in England: 1783-1832.

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Nelly Mazloum


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Nelly Mazloum (1929-February 21, 2003) was an Egyptian actress, dancer and choreographer of Greek origin who taught ballet, modern dance, folkloric Egyptian dances and artistic oriental dance. Known for her sense of humor, she is famous for her role in the movie Ibn Hamidu along with Ismail Yasseen.

The golden years
In the '40s and 50's the strikingly beautiful young woman danced in all the choicest venues, creating her own choreographies, and as an actress in the theatre and in the cinema, for a total of about 17 films. Of those, she danced oriental dance only in two. One is Shahrazad (1941) starring Hussein Sedky, Elham Hussein and Samia Gamal, the other one was Soliman's ring (1946), directed by Hassan Ramzy (the uncle of percussionist Hossam Ramzy). Simone Gasser (Meissoun)[1], a Swiss oriental dancer who took seminars with her, says: "According to her, the reason why she didn't do Raqs Sharqi in films was because "everybody else did it" and they wanted her to do other dances because she could". According to her daughter Marianna, "There were some 300 Egyptian dancers doing oriental very cheaply, they could be hired for 5 pounds per film, while my mother commanded a hefty cachet of 100 pounds because she was the only modern dancer in Egypt at that time - so why 'waste' her on something everybody else did?" She also ran a successful ballet school, which provided young artists for the National Opera of Cairo Nelly liked the luxuries in life, and she enjoyed life to the full. She was married six times. One of her husbands was a Greek-Egyptian named Andreas Roussos (contrary to what many websites state, totally unrelated to engineer Yorgos Roussos, the father of Demis Roussos). She was married to him for four years, and he was the father of her two children, Emanuel and, 2 years later, Marianna (also known by her pet name and stage name Marhaba). Marianna says:

My father was very rich, the owner of a candy factory. He didn't want my mother to dance, so she stopped performing and concentrated on research. Although her main training was in ballet, she never missed a chance to learn Egyptian dance forms. When I was small I remember we visited my father's sweet factory and when there was a festivity, we watched the girls dance to music from the radio. Outside the building there was a cul-de-sac where these poor people always held their weddings, borrowing the tables from the factory.Moreover, she took the car and chauffeur and went around to watch people in their original surroundings, Bedouin marriages in the desert etc... She traveled the whole country for many years, from the desert to the villages, souks, cities, always looking for new dance movements.During her visits to the rich Egyptian ladies, on the other hand, she would watch their dance too: a different sort of dance, more refined than the beledi or the shaabi - she calls it hawanem. She absorbed it all. An avid reader, she never visited a bookstore without coming home with 30-40 books. She once took a whole year to study books in the National Egyptian Museum, looking for descriptions of dances and costumes in ancient times. The director gave her a special permission, and she had to handle the fragile manuscripts with gloves...

In 1964 the government changed, and the minister of culture Sarwat Okasha fell in disgrace, together with all his proteges. Most of her dancers were lured to Mahmoud Reda's company, with a higher pay and the new people in favour made life for Mazloum very difficult, starting a slander campaign in the press. So much so that she decided she didn't have to take it any longer: she packed all her belongings, put her children temporarily in a boarding school and left Egypt to go live in Greece, starting afresh. There, she buried all the tokens of her past career in a series of trunks and vowed never to dance again, but concentrate on teaching and propagating the art of dance, founding the Athens International School where, again, she taught ballet and modern dance. She even changed her name again to Nelly M. Calvo, so that people wouldn't associate her with her past self.

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Georges Moustaki


see category 24."the Greeks of France"

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Georgios Averoff

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


George M. Averoff (1815-1899), alternately Georgios Averof, was a Greek businessman and philanthropist.

Born in the Aromanian (Vlach) town of Metsovo, Averoff moved to Alexandria while still young. He was known through most of his life for founding numerous schools both in Egypt and Greece.

As a benefactor, he contributed funds for the restoration of the Panathenian Stadium in readiness for the 1896 Summer Olympics. This he did at the request of Crown Prince Constantine. The stadium was refurbished in 1895, its second refurbishment in the 19th century, using white marble from Mount Penteli pursuant to Averoff's request. The cost was initially estimated at 580,000 drachmas but eventually reached 920,000.

He also served as a member of the reception committee for the foreign competitors at the Games.

In gratitude for his contributions, a statue of Averoff was commissioned and placed in front of the stadium. It remains there today. In addition, a Greek cruiser, the flagship of the Hellenic Navy, was named after him.




see also category 16.the Vlach benefactors.

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Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Patriarch Theodore (Theodoros) II of Alexandria (born Nikolaos Horeftakis on November 25, 1954) is the current Eastern Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa. He is formally styled His Divine Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of the Great City of Alexandria, Libya, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, All Egypt and All Africa, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Prelate of Prelates, the Thirteenth of the Apostles.He is the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in Africa and Madagascar.


[edit] Biography
He was born on the Greek island of Crete in 1954, where he completed his schooling. He is a graduate of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School in Athens and holds a degree from the Theological Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He also studied History of Art, Literature and Philosophy in Odessa. From 1975 to 1985 he served as Archdeacon and Chancellor of the Holy Metropolis of Lambis and Sfakion in Crete, where he developed significant Preaching and Philanthropic activities (hostels for needy youth, etc). From 1985 to 1990 he served as Patriarchal Exarch in Russia, based in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, during the tenure of Patriarchs Nicholas VI and Parthenios.

Theodore established the Institution of Hellenic Culture and the Philiki Eterea Museum with 600 children, where they were taught a thorough knowledge of Greek. In 1990 he was ordained Bishop of Kyrene and was appointed Representative of Patriarch Parthenios in Athens (1990–1997). He always accompanied Patriarch Parthenios on his travels throughout Africa and to many international, interfaith and theological conferences.

In 1997 he was appointed Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria by Patriarch Petros VII to assist him at the outset of his Patriarchate and after ten months he was elected as Metropolitan of Cameroon. He greatly developed missionary activity there. He built churches, schools and hospitals, helping many Africans and local Greeks. In 2002 he was transferred to the Holy Metropolis of Zimbabwe, where he established four missionary centres in Harare, a Hellenic Cultural Centre for 400 delegates, two large missionary centres in Malawi, with a hospital, technical schools and nursery schools. Aided by the Greek Parliament he renovated the Hellenic Square (School-Church-Vicarage) in Beira, Mozambique. He founded churches and contributed to the establishment of the Hellenic Communities of Botswana and Angola.

In the wake of the death of Patriarch Petros and other senior bishops in a helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea, Theodore was unanimously elected on October 9, 2004 by the Synod of the Alexandrian Throne as Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa. The enthronement ceremony took place at the Cathedral of Annunciation in Alexandria, on Sunday, October 24, 2004, in the presence of distinguished religious and civilian representatives and a great number of faithful.

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Constantin Xenakis

from wikipedia

Constantin Xenakis was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 28 December 1931.
He has lived in Paris since 1955. In 1996 he was awarded the Prix Delmas by the Institut de France, at the recommendation of the French Academy of Fine Arts.

1970, Scholarship of the D.A.A.D Arts Programme, Berlin.

1980, Research Scholarship from the French Ministry of Culture.

Community Action
Member of Administrative Committee of the Salon de Mai, Paris, from 1968 to 1983 Member of Founding Committee and Judges Panel for the "Vitry-sur-Seine" Painting Prize, France, from 1969 to 1990.


Teaching
1971-1973 Professor in Visual Arts Programme at Schiller College, Berlin

1973 Taught at Seminar at the University of Fine Arts, H.F.B.K., Berlin

1973-1996 Lecturer at Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique, Cachan, France

1976-1982 Member of ENSET Examining Committee on modelage

1978-1983 Member of French Examining Committee for Agrégation in Visual Arts


Awards
1986 Knight of the Arts and Literature, awarded by the French Republic

1991 Opening of the "Constantin Xenakis" hall at the Community Center of Fameck, France

1996 The Delmas Price of the French Institute, awarded at the recommendation of the French Academy of Fine Arts

1998 "Award of Appreciation" at the 24th Olympiad, by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea


Spectacles
1969 "EK-STASIS", spectacle with electrically-kinetic sculptures by Constantin Xenakis, electronic music by J. Bruzdowicz, mime by Jaroszewics and Marceau.

1982 "La grande journée", co-production C.F.D.T.-Antenne 2, text J.P. Faye, music J.V. Bosseur, sets C. Xenakis, choreography Pomares


Monumental Constructions
1985 Creation of relief and ceramic semiotic routes (670m2) for the sewage pumping station of the town of Crosne, France. Architect Monique Labbe.




www.constantinxenakis.com/

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Stratis Tsirkas

www.toseekoutnewlife.com/tsirkas.html

Konstantinos Parthenis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Konstantinos Parthenis (10 May 1878 – 25 July 1967) was a distinguished Greek painter. Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and introduced modern elements together with traditional themes, like the figure of Christ, in his art.

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Benakis family



Antonis Benakis


from wikipedia


Antonis Benakis (1873-1954) was a Greek art collector and the founder of the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, the brother of author Penelope Delta.

Benakis was a member of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1949 until 1951.




see also category 20.OTHER BENEFACTORS



Emmanuel Benakis





Penelope Delta


see category 4.AUTHORS-part (B)

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Stelios Papadimitriou


www.onassis.gr/enim_deltio/foreign/01/story_01.php



Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation



Stelios Papadimitriou was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1930. He studied at the Tossitsas Hellenic Community Boys School and at the Averof High School of Alexandria. In 1953, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Alexandria.

In 1954, Stelios Papadimitriou met Aristotelis Onassis who entrusted him with the legal coverage of a project he was pursuing at that time: the transportation of the entire production of Saudi-Arabian oil. For the purposes of this project, S. Papadimitriou settled in Saudi Arabia (1954-1960) and participated in the drafting of important Saudi-Arabian shipping legislation statutes.

In 1960, he returned to Alexandria, where he practiced law at a well-known law firm specializing in shipping cases. In 1966, Stelios Papadimitriou moved with his family to Greece; he passed the qualifying examinzation set by the University of Athens’ Faculty of Law leading to the recognition of equivalence of the degree in Law obtained by the University of Alexandria, and he then became a member of the Piraeus Bar Association. He began practicing as an attorney in 1967. In 1977, he joined his son Anthony in the “S. & A. Papadimitriou & Partners” law firm.


A strong professional and friendly bond, which lasted until the death of Onassis, was forged between Stelios Papadimitriou and Aristotelis Onassis. It is revealing that in 1970, when Stelios Papadimitriou was only forty years old, Aristotelis Onassis, appreciating his integrity and professional skill, appointed him, among others, as Legal Consultant and member of the Board of Directors of Olympic Airways, as President of Olympic Air Navigation and as a member of the Board of Directors of Banque de Dépôts, his private bank in Geneva. It was then that Stelios Papadimitriou got first acquainted with Paul Ioannidis, Apostolos Zabelas and Paraskevas Ioannidis – then Olympic Airways executive officers – with whom he forged bonds of brotherly friendship. Not long after, Onassis entrusted Stelios Papadimitriou with the general management of his fleet comprised of 70 ships, mainly tankers.


Stelios Papadimitriou was the person who made sure that the late Aristotelis Onassis’ will was drafted according to his wishes. Onassis appointed Stelios Papadimitriou as one of the five executors of his will, according to which half of his estate was bequeathed to the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, in memory of his son. In his will, Aristotelis Onassis also appointed Stelios Papadimitriou as one of the fifteen (15) founding and life members of the Foundation.

After Christina Onassis’ death in 1988, Stelios Papadimitriou was elected President of the Business Foundation and then President of the Public Benefit Foundation. In her will, Christina Onassis appointed Stelios Papadimitriou as a member of a five-member committee, which administered the estate of her daughter, Athina Roussel, during the 1988-1999 period.

Under his presidency, the Business Foundation increased the initial capital bequeathed by Aristotelis Onassis in his will.
On July 1st of 2005, Stelios Papadimitriou joined by Paul Ioannidis and Apostolos Zabelas, the other two life members of the Board of Directors, decided to retire from the Presidency of the Foundation so that the next generation would step in – and indeed it did, after an unanimous decision by the fifteen-member Board of Directors. Of course, the retired members retained their life membership status. The Board of Directors, as an expression of gratitude for the valuable services rendered to the Foundation, honored Stelios Papadimitriou with the title of Honorary President.

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B.SOUTH AFRICA.


George Bizos


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bizos



George Bizos born 1928 in Greece, is a distinguished human rights advocate who fought against apartheid in South Africa.


Bizos joined the Bar in Johannesburg in 1954. He was counsel to Trevor Huddleston of Sophiatown in the 1950s, and since then has also been counsel to Nelson Mandela. He was part of the team that defended Mandela, Govan Mbeki and Walter Sisulu in the Rivonia Trial in 1963–64, in which the defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment, but spared the death penalty. Although it is sometimes said that he claims to have drafted Mandela's famous speech spoken at the trial, he says that his main contribution was to advise the use of the words "if needs be" before Mandela said that he was prepared to die. Bizos believes that this may have contributed to the avoidance of the death penalty by having Mandela not appear to seek martyrdom. This trial heralded the arrival of*group of tough human rights lawyers — Joel Joffe, Arthur Chaskalson and Harold Hanson. He has defended Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on more than 20 occasions.

Bizos was counsel at the inquests into the deaths in detention of Ahmed Timol in 1971, of Steve Biko in 1977, and of Dr Neil Agget in 1982. He has represented the family of Chris Hani, and defended Mac Maharaj during the Little Rivonia Trial.

In the 1970s Bizos helped start a Greek school, called SAHETI.[2] It embraced Hellenism, yet was non-exclusionist, even during the heart of apartheid. It was here that people like Chris Hani's children were educated.[3]

He has been a senior member of the Johannesburg Bar since 1978. He is a member of the National Council of Lawyers for Human Rights, which he helped found in 1979. He is Senior Counsel at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg in the Constitutional Litigation Unit. He was a judge on Botswana's Court of Appeal from 1985 to 1993. Bizos was counsel to United Democratic Front leaders, including future provincial Premiers Patrick Lekota and Popo Molefe in the Delmas Treason Trial, 1985-89. In 1990 he became a member of the African National Congress's Legal and Constitutional Committee, and at Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) he served as advisor to the negotiating teams and participated in drawing up the Interim Constitution. He was involved of the drafting of legislation, and particularly the Truth and Reconciliation Bill and amendments to the Criminal Procedures Act, to bring it into line with Chapter 3 of the constitution, guaranteeing fundamental human rights to all citizens of South Africa.

In the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, he was the leader of the team that opposed applications for amnesty on behalf of the Biko, Hani, Goniwe, Calata, Mkonto, Mhlauli, Slovo and Schoon families. He was appointed by then President Mandela to the Judicial Services Commission which, in terms of the constitution, recommends candidates for appointment as judges and proposes reforms to the judicial system to erase its apartheid past. Bizos was the leader of the team for the South African Government to argue that the death penalty was unconstitutional, and counsel for the National Assembly in the Certification of the Constitution by the Constitutional Court.

He was part of the team that successfully defended the Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change's leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who was charged with planning a coup d'état by conspiring to assassinate President Robert Mugabe before the 2002 general elections.

In 2005, Bizos was legal advisor to Nelson Mandela in a bitter legal dispute with Mandela's former attorney, Ismail Ayob.






Anastasia Krystallidis

Executive Head - SAHETI School

www.saheti.co.za/2009_Exec_head.htm

S.A.H.E.T.I. – South African Hellenic Educational and Technical Institute – was established in 1974 by a group of founders under the leadership of Advocate George Bizos. Their vision was to establish a school which would provide a modern education, whilst inculcating the ethos and values of Hellenism.



IN GREEK,ABOUT SAHETI...

omogeneia.ana-mpa.gr/specials/africa/part_d/saheti.htm

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria

Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria





The Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, also known as the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches. Oficially it is called the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria to distinguish it from the non-chalcedonian Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria. Further in Egypt members of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate were also known as Melkite, because they remained in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople after the schism that followed the Council of Chalcedon in 451.


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The greek orthodox cemetery of Alexandria,Egypt,some pics.


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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery,_Mount_Sinai





Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai,Egypt.


Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of an inaccessible gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in Saint Katherine city in Egypt. The monastery is Greek Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / Ref: 954) and website hereunder, this monastery has been called the oldest working Christian monastery in the world.The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I between 527 and 565, enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush ordered to be built by Helena, the mother of Constantine I, at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush; the living bush on the grounds is purportedly the original. It is also referred to as "St. Helen's Chapel." The site is sacred to Judaism,Christianity and Islam.