Cavafy

Ion Karousis was among the victims of yesterday’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.

He was a Greek citizen living in Jerusalem, originally from Thessaloniki, with his family and the city’s Greek community deeply mourning his loss.

In the last few months there have been encouraging signs that what Cavafy might have termed "mia kapoia lysis" to the vexed question of the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens might be found.

Odysseus Elytis was one of the most important Greeks. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979. He was one of the select members of the so-called "generation of the nineteen thirties" in the field of artistic creation.

During these festive days along with the joy and happiness of the holidays we see before our eyes - albeit sometimes almost imperceptibly or by association as the Alexandrian poet Cavafy would say - images of unhappiness and incapacity.

Greek academic and literary figure Dinos Christianopoulos died Tuesday in Thessaloniki, where he had resided since his birth. He was 89. 

In the solo show "Night Garden," Farida El Gazzar presents viewers with a glimpse of her private world, influenced by her mixed Egyptian-Greek heritage, a fascination with the work of David Hockney, Thomas Demand and Karen Kilimnik, Byzantine iconography, Arabic literature and the poetry of C.P. Cavafy.