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NHSTALKS STORIES — EPISODE 1 — CHURCH & COMMUNITY, A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE – JUNE 11, 2020
PANELISTS 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…
NHS TALKS EPISODE 7: MUSEUMS, THE STORYTELLERS & INSPIRERS
PANELISTS: 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…
Michael Flynn’s Turkey Connection and the Implications for U.S. Security and Democracy
As 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,…
NHS Talks: COVID-19 Perspectives
Moderated by John Metaxas Recorded: Thursday April 30, 2020
James Marketos, Esq. on “Why We Remember Smyrna”
American Hellenic Institute PODCAST #2: AHI board member James Marketos, Esq., recounts a genocide taunt by Turkish soccer fans this year and speaks on the importance of remembering the Smyrna Catastrophe of 1922 and the need to hold Turkey to account for the destruction of the Christian population of the city. Marketos’s remarks on October…
Prime Minister Mitsotakis tells John Metaxas that Greece’s Brain Drain can be Reversed
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tells John Metaxas that Greece’s Brain Drain Can be Reversed. The prime minister answered my question during a public conversation he had at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, moderated by former Ambassador Nicholas Burns, on September 26, 2019. Runs: 6 minutes CLICK THE PLAYER TO LISTEN You may…
Hughes Hubbard’s George Tsougarakis on Pro Bono Recovery of Looted 9th Century Manuscript
Hughes Hubbard & Reed partner George Tsougarakis tells WallStreetNorth’s John Metaxas the fascinating story of his firm’s recovery of a 9th Century handwritten copy of the New Testament that was looted from a monastery in northern Greece by Bulgarian soldiers during World War I and went missing for 99 years. Despite the voluntarily return of…
Tasoula Hadjitofi: The Icon Hunter
John Metaxas interviews author Tasoula Hadjitofi about her book The Icon Hunter and her quest as a refugee to reclaim her nation’s stolen heritage. “As a girl growing up in Cyprus, I never imagined I’d learn as much as I have about the inner workings of art trafficking,” says Hadjitofi. Despite suffering from war, cultural…