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96.5FM – Monday 11th March 2019 – Egyptian radio show
Hi and Welcome to 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show [ English Edition ] from Melbourne-Australia, I’m Jerry Guirguis
6:00pm Local Weather
6:05pm Monday 11 March 2019 [ 6 – 8pm ]
6:30pm Melbourne Time =
7:00pm Melbourne Time =
Music
Πάλιωσε το σακάκι μου - Στέλλα Χασκίλ, Β. Τσιτσάνης 1948
Please accept my sincere apologies, Due to limited time and the grace to your Listening;
I’ll be shortening a number of wonderful stories & chronological facts to deliver the same sincere message in concise time.
In 2017, Greece, Cyprus and Egypt signed a Memorandum of Understanding, to bring Cypriots and Greeks who once lived and called Egypt home, back to the Egypt
hence ‘Nostos- Return to the roots’ was embraced by the three Government and the public in the Diaspora.
https://neoskosmos.com/en/126660/nostos-return-to-the-roots-forum-comes-to-melbourne/
NOSTOS ~ The return isn't just about returning home physically but also about
retaining certain statuses and retaining your identity upon arrival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostos
Nostalgia = Nos ..... Talgia = [ illness ]
the psychological condition of longing for the past.
Home Sick
The Journey Home
My return home
1] ILIAD [ war of Troy ]
Homer wrote two books
2] Odyssey = Ulyses [ one of the Generals in the Wooden Horse ]
Homer tells us about the length and pain Odyssey feels in wanting to return home
I recall my interview with Egyptian Ambassador to Australia Mohamed Khairat’s son, talking about being a Global citizen Identity,
Academy Award for lead actor for his performance as Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody." Rami Malek [ 1st Generation American-Egyptian ]
Last week, i had the wonderful opportunity to interview 1st Lady Chirine Weheba about being a Diplomat’s daughter and now a Diplomat wife and the Fond memories of Home
Cyprus
The Island of Beauty – Cyprus
Cyprus is also known for the vast deposit of copper
Homer & Hesiod wrote a mythical stories about Aphrodite [ Woman in the shell – painted by Boticelli ]
The story starts when Chronos castrated his father Ouranos
The blood fell on Earth
The Seamen fell in the Sea
Before i get to [ Cleopatra & Julius Cesar [ what do you call a bowl of salad with lots of knives – Cesar salad ]
one of the seven (bodyguards) who served as Alexander the Great's generals, was appointed successor of Egypt, the next Pharaoh
after Alexander's death in 323 BC. Ptolemy's family ruled Egypt until the Roman conquest of 30 BC.
Alexandria - Egypt
Alexandria became an important center of Hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt and Roman and Byzantine Egypt for almost 1,000 years, the link between Greece and the rich Nile valley
Greece
Greeks who became the next Pharaoh
Ptolemy II was the 1st to solve the problem of keeping the Nile free of Salt water, engineers invented the Water Lock around 274 BC
Modern day Egypt
The current Pharaoh, President Sissi got his engineers to build a parallel canal – a Dual Highway to speed the throughput of vessels
The Egyptian Minister of Culture Ines Abel Dayem announced the 150th Anniversary of the Suez Canal exhibition
is Scheduled to open in Egypt in April 2019, at National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
I want to thank these following and Very Special people, who have helped me with recent interviews with
George Kypreos – EEAMA General Secretary
George Cotzas – Egypt's Port-Tewfick Through the eyes of the soul /George M. Cotzas
a detailed story of growing up in Port-Tawfiek, naming every street, shop owner and Club in Suez
https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/php/pdf_pager.php?rec=/metadata/b/d/f/metadata-1427101192-307815-9951.tkl&do=390765_w.pdf&lang=en&pageno=1&pagestart=1&width=612&height=792&maxpage=280
George Theodoridis – Ancient Greek Translator – Euripides’s play MEDEA,
performed at Arcadia Bibliotheca Theatre Alexandria November 2007
The Chorus translated into Arabic, with an Egyptian Happy Ending.
The Spanos family, speaking to Nichola’s son Mina Spanos, The Spanos family sponsored my family’s immigration application forms
Nichola Spanos and Kamal Guirguis [ my father ] worked at Shell Co. Suez
The Spanos Family immigrated to Australia 1964, The Guirguis Family soon followed in 1968.
Thank You
Jerry Guirguis
Presenter
96.5FM - Egyptian radio show
Mobile 0400 718 817
Phone Studio : 03 9457 1718
Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/jerryguirguis
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8:30pm Melbourne Time = George Theodoridis
Greek National holidays
How come the Greeks don’t Celebrate Helen of Sparta [ Greeks over the Turks ]
When did the Greeks kick out the Ottoman [ Turkey ]
Plato’s Symposium – provoking nations to the most brutal acts
Hi George,
How does Queen of Sparta [ Greece ] end up renamed Helen of Troy [ Turkey ]
Are we talking about a Mythological character here or
are we to believe British historian Bettany Hughes [ the real Helen .... was alive around 1250BC ] ?
How did Prince Paris, Prince of Turkey abduct Queen Helen of Sparta [ Greece ] ?
Helen of Sparta [ Greece ] finally chooses and marries Menelaus
The couple had at least one daughter, called Hermione
Helen gets severely reprimanded for leaving Herimone behind to run off with the Prince of Turkey - PARIS
Thank you George
Audio Link;
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vf9IqHOE0Yeu8wc3Ci4wNahEa2w5NaSM/view?usp=sharing
Jerry Guirguis
Presenter
96.5FM - Egyptian radio show
0400 718 817
https://sites.google.com/site/jerryguirguis
Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com
Studio : 03 9457 1718
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96.5FM - Egyptian radio show interview with George Theodoridis [ Monday 18 Dec 2017 ]
And now, I would like to turn to George Theodoridis,
someone who in his previous incarnation, worked with children and their families in a fairly close and intimate way and
as he once told me, learnt more about the way the world works through them, rather than through adults or books.
George Theodoridis was a secondary teacher for many years and what the classroom taught him about humans and humaneness
was extremely valuable and guided his behaviour and outlook of his own fatherhood.
George is the father of two gorgeous daughters and of two also gorgeous grandchildren, a young lady of two and a young man of one.
George, over to you:
Q1] What have you learnt and what do you now know about kids?
You taught the adolescents and you also, along with your wife, of course, brought up the babies!
What happens between babyhood and adolescence, George?
What happens, Jerry -and this looms very large in their lives- is transition. They are forever changing, adapting to changes around them, evolving, learning new things, new ways to deal with changing things. Not only are they dealing with their own physicality, their ever-changing bodies but also their own mental development.
They will need to change the wiring in their brain a great many times as they walk from class to class, from year to year, from relationship to relationship, from their home environment to their school environment, their school yard environment, their environment at their work place -if they're working part time... They will in fact have to be constantly and perpetually moving in every aspect. Intellectually, morally, culturally.
These changes, these transitions can cause many difficulties and the greater the distance between one state and another, the greater the hardship they'll meet to accommodate that change...
let’s talk about distance referred by the great poet and the professor;
National poet Dorothea Mackellar
Historian, Prof Geoffrey Blainey
We live in a vast, vast country. A "sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges and of droughts and flooding rains," as our national poet Dorothea Mackellar put it, way back when this country was still young.
Now, the young poet, loved all this, loved this country for its raggedness and difficult climate but our historian, Prof Geoffrey Blainey also reminded us of the difficulty of distance from what one might call, especially during his day, "the mother country," England. In his History book, he talked of the tyranny of distance, from becoming what are meant to become, social, communal beings.
This tyranny surely impacts upon children far more than adults.
Q1] Do you think this is so? Or is it equally as debilitating to both?
Q2] Are children resilient ?
According to an article by Jessica Longbottom of last November where she quotes the figures from a report by the Youth Mental Health Service, "OXYGEN" and posted on the ABC the teenage suicide rate is the highest in 10 years.
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-30/system-for-suicide-prevention-rates-highest-10-years/8076780)
This suggests to me that either our lives are becoming increasingly more complex, more demanding, more difficult for families to negotiate their way around them or that children, in fact, are not as resilient as we once thought they were.
Are children more fragile, in fact, than their parents, or are their parents so stressed out themselves that they can do no more for them and thus neglect them?
Q3] How do we stop child suicide in Australia ?
A country that prides itself for being rich in economic wealth as well as in cultural and moral wealth? Are we also wrong about that pride as well?
Q4] What about children of Refugees, how do we go about re-wiring their minds ?
People seeking refuge, a safe place away from a perilous life of war or discrimination, death and torture, have an even more difficult time, a far more difficult time of not only finding a safe place to settle down and start afresh
but also to re-wire their minds and hearts to suit the new environment.
Q4] What about the basic laws of Nature and Nurture ?
We've all heard through our early school and University days that people grow up, that is mature, according to two things that affect us, that of. We need both of these to be well tuned if we are to become good adults.
Education by the people around us and a healthy body granted to us by Nature. Good education and good genes.
Now this is a very complex and intricate psycho-biological issue and I don't want us to be too engrossed in it in this little program but children being moved around this vast, vast country need extra strength to survive when either or both of these elements are not up to scratch.
You can now listen to the interview on the following link;
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H3FVPEIne_FRxcu7VTRxYT0iny80zQ43/view?usp=sharing
Jerry Guirguis
Presenter
96.5FM - Egyptian radio show
0400 718 817
https://sites.google.com/site/jerryguirguis
Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com
Studio : 03 9457 1718
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Jerry Guirguis interviews George Theodoridis, Melbourne based Ancient Greek translator, talking to us about SBS documentary - THE GREEKS,
Democracy failed the Greeks then and is failing in it's current context: George will explain why he disagrees.
Mr Theodoridis will be speaking to us on 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show, Melbourne, English edition [ Monday 23rd October 2017, 8:15pm ].
Listen to the conversation between George and Jerry : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxw764WTM0UhWmRGQWhIQXFOSVE/view?usp=sharing
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Jerry Guirguis interviews George Theodoridis, Melbourne based Ancient Greek translator, talking to us about the SUPPLIANT, a play written by Aeschylus and Euripides, do the two plays mean the same thing ?, or Euripides's MEDEA play, is best in describing REFUGEES and how must we treat strangers, Mr Theodoridis will be speaking to us on 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show, Melbourne, English edition [ Monday 10 July 2017, 9:00pm Melbourne ].
George, as we speak, the number of displaced people, of people persecuted for one reason or the other, people who are fearing for their lives, people who desperately seeking some sort of safety away from their homes may well be over 50 million people.
People from Syria, the Middle East, Iraq, All across Africa have to flee their motherland, their homes, their friends, their whole lives, in fact, in many cases they must shed their own identity and become someone else, to get away from that persecution and that life of fear.
Q1] Have the ancient Greeks spoken about such people and what did they have to say. I believe the playwrights have left us something to think about. What was it?
Q2] So "The Suppliants" then must be a popular play, right?
Q3] Didn't Euripides write a play by the same name? Was that also about women who were fleeing from their homes and seeking asylum?
So, here we have a whole lot of foreigners allowed by the King and the people to enter the city and live there happily ever after.
These days we are terribly afraid that if we give refuge to anyone who seeks it, the impact upon us would be far too great.
We are afraid that our lives will be taken over by them and our culture, our religion, our very identity will be changed intolerably.
Q4] How did the Athenians deal with that question?
Q5] How do the two playwrights treat women in these two plays?
You have translated into English all the ancient Greek plays that have survived to our time and published them on your website, you have translated quite a few lyric poets, including Sappho, some Plato, you wrote a considerable amount of your own poetry, some of which has been published in various books and journals and you have even written some Feature film scripts.
Finally, George, what are you up to these days?
What's next?
Jerry Guirguis
Presenter
96.5FM - Egyptian radio show
+61 400 718 817
https://sites.google.com/site/jerryguirguis
Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com
Studio : +61 3 9457 1718
CD copy of this interview can be requested by email to: [ Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com ]
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Jerry Guirguis interviews George Theodoridis, Melbourne based Ancient Greek translator, talking to us about the Euripides's MEDEA play, performed at the Great Hall Bibliotheca Alexandria Egypt and his recent commissioned work, Mr Theodoridis will be speaking to us on 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show, Melbourne, English edition [ Monday 13 February 2017, 8:30pm AEDT ].
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Jerry Guirguis interview George Theodoridis, live to air from our 96.5FM studio – Egyptian radio show [ Monday 13th Sep 2010, Melbourne ]
6:15pm – Our 1st special guests tonight will be George Theodoridis, Melbourne based Ancient Greek translator, talking to us about the Euripides's MEDEA play, performed at the Great Hall Bibliotheca Alexandria Egypt by the Greek Theatre Arcadia 27th Nov 2008.
George Theodoridis, B.A., M.A. (Prel.), Dip.Ed.(Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
http://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/
Hi George and welcome to 96.5FM - Egyptian radio show,
............ can we start with Euripides's Medea , Greek Mythology at it’s best
ancient Greek poet Euripides' [480 BCE – 406BCE] Medea myth
the play was performed at the
Conference Centre Great Hall
Bibliotheca Alexandria Egypt
by the Greek Theatre Arcadia's
27th Nov 2008
ABOUT George Theodoridis
Our own, Melbourne based, translator , George Theodoridis, got the surprise of his life when he was contacted by the Greek Theatre Arcadia, to stage the play in Egypt;
Q1] Welcome to 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show George, can you tell us a bit about that contact, and what followed
q2] as a teacher, how did you pass your Greek mythology to your pupils
Euripides has 95 plays playwright , of only 18 are in circulation
?03) When did you start translating Medea, and how many others have you worked on
ABOUT MEDEA
a joint venture between
Bibliotheca's Mediterranean Research Centre and the
Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
the chorus of Alexandria university students and their speaking their lines in both Arabic and English,
?04) How does Medea help us understand human “reasons for behaviors”
How can we stop ourselves from judging, killing her own kids, there is no excuse that would explain this reason, other than not acceptably normal, no emotion is that strong to lose the plot
?05) When Jason taunts Medea about her oriental, 'barbarian' origins, it sends out a message of phobia, fear and suspicion of foreigners,
?06) Western cultural
Medea to thank her lucky stars that she now lives in the paradise of the 'civilized' West, aren’t those same words used today
ABOUT EGYPT’S MEDEA TWIST
Medea very much a play of the here and now.
In Euripides's text, Medea appears at the end in a chariot drawn by winged dragons overhead, with the bodies of the children beside her.
In Egypt, and more on Egyptian audience's moral sensibility, Medea stabbing herself at the altar with the same sword she used in killing her children
Q7] What’s your take on this twist
Euripides' Medea by Theatre Arcadia, directed by Katarina Paliou, Conference Centre Great Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 27, November, 2008.
You can listen to this interview by going to [ http://sites.google.com/site/jerryguirguis/home ]
or
CD copy of this interview can be requested by email to: [ Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com ]
Jerry Guirguis
Presenter
96.5FM - Egyptian radio show
+61 400 718 817
https://sites.google.com/site/jerryguirguis
Studio : +61 3 9457 1718
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