Hannah Arendt

The Greek Film Archive presents films from different parts of the world in a two-day tribute to gender equality. "50/50 Equality in Cinema," starts on Thursday at 8.30 p.m.

Twenty years in peace are like 20 days of war. During the bombings of Serbia and Kosovo, I wrote from the point of view of any anonymous woman living her daily life in Belgrade, with children, friends… fishing for food, water, electricity, cigarettes… Necessity was the mother of invention, so I invented the first internet war diary, before bloggers or blogs existed.

The government-appointed Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing the Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army alleged on Tuesday that Julia Kristeva was an agent of the Communist-era security apparatus.

"Manifesting one's own identity and distinctness is an action of citizenship," epic German thinker Hannah Arendt famously said.

This applies also to states and people. Manifesting one's identity and distinctness is actually an action of universal citizenship and the hallmark of nation-states.