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Marios Hakkas tells the tale of a man whose soul is divided between rebellion and compliance. Will he choose the uncertainty of raising his fist against the powers that be? Or will he cower in his corner, secure in his settled life? Hakkas’ short story is a wonderful example of political literature. Download the file here and find out more (pdf, 2.6mb).
Author biography here.
p.s. You will require the latest version of Adobe Acrobat to open the file. This is free and can be found here.
Today I would like to highlight a documentary from ERT’s Online Archive. The documentary explores the historical ties between Venice, the Byzantine Empire and what is now Greece through the centuries. The documentary is in Greek and runs for about 30 minutes. You can watch it here, or alternatively click the image below. You can pause and restart at your leisure.
Enjoy and don’t forget to comment, this is your forum 
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Archive.org is an online repository of shared material. Here you can find audio, video and text-based material whose licence has expired or whose creators have chosen to make it available to the world for free. The resource is fully searchable and is a wonderful resource. It contains films, images, audio recordings (including audio books), books in .pdf format for Acrobat and many other formats. Some examples below:
Newsreel from the riots in Cyprus in 1959 (click to view)
The Ant1 ‘News at 18.00′(click to view)
Ernst Curtius’ History of Greece
Just search and play! You can watch all videos online and download all the books on your PC at home. Users can also upload any data they may have the rights to, or whose copyright has expired. However, recently the government has outsourced the digitisation of House of Commons archives to a private company, which digitises records with its own watermarkand ‘copyright’, and makes these files commercially available. There seems to be an issue with the ownership of public records. Since they belong to the public, how can they be exploited by private companies for profit? See the full discussion in the Times Higer Education website here.
