Greece
My Article in Kathimerini
March 27, 2023The Kathimerini English Edition, the edition of Greece’s leading newspaper published in partnership with The New York Times, has published my latest article. (E Kathimerini means “The Daily” in Greek.)
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Reversing Greece’s Brain Drain
March 8, 2023Demokritos Labs Director and Chairman Dr. George Nounesis is on a mission to bring scientists back Athens, Greece March 2023 As Greece works to recover from the devastating financial crisis of the last decade, one of its most vital tasks is to bring talented individuals back into the country to work and create opportunity for […]
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30. Learning Modern Greek
December 19, 2022This inaugural episode of the Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Podcast from Queens College (CUNY) features Professor Gerasimus Katsan, director of the College’s Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and its assistant director, Professor Maria Athanasopoulou. They speak in both English and Greek with John Metaxas about the Modern Greek language, what it takes […]
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Foreign Direct Investment in Greece: Can Greece Be the Next Israel?
May 29, 2021Until recently, Foreign Direct Investment in Greece focused primarily on real estate, tourism, logistics, and renewable energy. Over the past few years, interest has also increased in other areas such as technology, from artificial intelligence and computer science to chip design and digital health. It is all thanks to several global technology companies who have […]
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NHS TALKS EPISODE 8: CONTROLLING COVID-19 & TOBACCO CHALLENGES IN GREECE
June 22, 2020PANELISTS DR. PANAGIOTIS BEHRAKIS, DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE Dr. Behrakis is a pulmonologist and leading Public Health expert in respiratory physiology and tobacco control. He is the Director and Founder of the Institute of Public Health at the American College of Greece, Director of the George D. Behrakis Research Lab of […]
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U.S. Amb. Pyatt says Greece’s Successful COVID Response is a ‘Moment of National Pride’
June 19, 2020My talk with U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, June 18, 2020 Ambassador says response was guided by scientific advice. Such U.S. companies as Microsoft, Google and Cisco aided with technology. Silver lining of effort was the progress Greece made in digital governance. The interview is an excerpt from the NHSTalks presentation by the National […]
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An Analysis of the 2020 U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Report
June 16, 2020Panelists Hon. B. Theodore Bozonelis, Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, Piero Tozzi and Moderator John Metaxas analyze the 2020 U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Report and its implication for the Ecumenical Patriarchate and religious freedom in Turkey. Presented by the American Hellenic Institute.
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NHSTALKS STORIES — EPISODE 1 — CHURCH & COMMUNITY, A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE – JUNE 11, 2020
June 15, 2020PANELISTS HIS EMINENCE, METROPOLITAN GERASIMOS OF SAN FRANCISCO His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos has been overseeing the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco since his enthronement in April 2005. This region includes 67 parishes in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. He has served as a clergyman in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America for […]
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NHS TALKS EPISODE 7: MUSEUMS, THE STORYTELLERS & INSPIRERS
June 10, 2020PANELISTS: SEAN HEMINGWAY, JOHN A. AND CAROLE O. MORAN CURATOR IN CHARGE, GREEK & ROMAN ART, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Dr. Hemingway serves as Curator of one of the world’s most treasured collections of Greek & Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Dr. Hemingway is a celebrated archaeologist that has excavated prehistoric, classical […]
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Michael Flynn’s Turkey Connection and the Implications for U.S. Security and Democracy
June 1, 2020As the Michael Flynn legal drama comes to its denouement, the media narrative has focused on his guilty plea to lying about conversations with the Russian ambassador and the Justice Department’s late decision to seek to drop charges against Flynn. But Flynn’s other foreign entanglement, with Turkey, may be even more significant to U.S. security, […]
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