Afshin Yusuf, Author at Hellenic Observer

European Union Reverses Earlier Announcement That It Was Suspending Development Aid to Palestinians

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

BRUSSELS — The European Union late Monday reversed an earlier announcement by an EU commissioner that the bloc was “immediately” suspending development aid for Palestinian...

How Ancient Greek Knowledge Was Saved by the Islamic Golden Age

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to the...

Netanyahu’s Cyprus Visit Highlights Complex Israel, Cyprus, Greece Ties – Analysis

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

Amid signs of warming relations with Turkey, the Israeli prime minister strengthens ties with traditional allies Cyprus and Greece. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped...

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Synod Tells Pope Francis He Has Made ‘painful’ Statements

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

During a meeting in Rome Wednesday morning, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic synod of bishops told Pope Francis some of his gestures and statements have...

Ljubliana, Plovdiv, Turin: Europe’s Best Under-the-radar Cities, According to People Who’ve Been

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

‘Seriously underrated’: Travellers share the European cities they unexpectedly fell in love with. There’s nothing worse than visiting the destination of your dreams only...

Lost Something? Make This Greek Saint’s Cake

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

WHEN ALEXANDRA PITTAS WAS IN the sixth grade, she lost a Bible that she had brought for church service at her Greek immersion school. It...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis Offers Free Holiday to Tourists Who Fled Rhodes Wildfires

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

Greece’s prime minister has offered a week-long free holiday in Rhodes next year for tourists whose vacation was cut short by wildfires. Blazes fanned...

Ancient Greek Mathematician, Philosopher Created Pythagorean Comma

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

The ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, who lived 2,500 years ago, applied his genius to music as well throughout his brilliant career, creating...

Greece Votes in Parliamentary Polls for Second Time in Five Weeks

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
1 year ago

Voters expected to give former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s conservative party a second term in office. Greeks are voting for a second time in little more...

In This Greek Island, Women Hold Power

Posted by Afshin Yusuf
2 years ago

In contrast to most of patriarchal Greece, the women of Olympos play a commanding role in village life. Karpathos, Greece: “Here it is women...