It is a crisis that is testing Greece’s limits. Over five weeks, a team of journalists from Northeastern University traveled oversees to cover the Syrian refugee crisis in a country already beset by economic collapse. The coverage spans from social issues and healthcare to needs as basic as shelter. Our work is housed on the…
Video by Olivia Arnold and Isaac Feldberg · ATHENS, Greece – After years of praying out of sight in old warehouses and basements, Athens’ Muslim population is preparing for the opening of the city’s first state-funded mosque. The city, despite being home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims, stands as the only European capital without one.…
Story by Brandon Carusillo · ATHENS, Greece – He moved away years ago, has earned millions and is considered one of the great, young stars of the National Basketball Association. But here, in the gritty, working-class neighborhood he grew up in, Giannis Antetokounmpo is something else: An inspiration who has shown that you really can get out.…
Story and video by Gwendolyn Schanker · GLYFADA, Greece – It’s a sunny, slightly breezy day in Anavyssos, Greece, and loggerhead sea turtle Angeliki is ready to return to her home in the ocean. Angeliki, whose name means “angel,” was found off the coast of the Greek island Lefkada in December 2016 with a head injury that…
Story by David Harbeck · Desperate for cash and looking for a way to pay back international creditors, Greece is selling rights to its major state assets including airports, railways and ports to foreign companies with decades-long contracts that will most certainly become lucrative again, robbing the country of any financial benefit. A place where tourism…
ATHENS, Greece – The capital is full of neighborhoods, mostly organized around its churches. But there is another defining factor in this city of ruins and gods: its artists. Tucked around side streets and down cobbled roads, neighborhoods full of artisans dot the sprawling city in every direction. One, Psirri, has an especially vibrant story to tell.
Essay and photos by Sydne Mass · At 6 in the morning, in Thessaloniki, the streets are quiet. The sun slowly rises as people get ready to start their day. Aristotle Square, at the center of town, is practically empty, with the only signs of life coming from a few bakeries and, down a side street,…
Story by Bridget Peery · Chatter echoes through the two-story, open working space of Ok!Thess, an incubator in Thessaloniki nearly a year old. In the conference area, more than a dozen people listen to an instructor give her slideshow presentation. In the seminar space, just around the corner, another speaker commands the room. On the second-floor…
Story by Alexa LaVersa · The names of fish – sardines, mackerel and sole – ring out at Athens Central Market, known as Dimotiki Agora, where kiosks also display a colorful assortment of crustaceans, squid and octopus. Even in the middle of a weekday, crowds bustle through, tourists wandering in with big hats and cameras while…
Video produced by Alexa LaVersa and Bradley Fargo · ATHENS, Greece – The Athens and Epidaurus Festival is held annually in Athens starting in May and running through July. The festival is over 60 years old – attracting international performers alongside homegrown Greek talent. Split between locations in downtown Athens and the southern coastal city Epidaurus,…
Story by Brandon Carusillo · THESSALONIKI, Greece – Crowded Komninon Street and its worn, cracked charcoal-colored cement suggests there’s important history contained here in these vibrant storefronts, and, more importantly, in the people who occupy them. One, a shop with the red lettering “Kunio,” has a story to tell that’s perhaps more compelling than most. Spotless,…
Story by Cody Mello-Klein · ATHENS, Greece – Four figures hunch in front of a television at GROW Games Expo – Athens’ first showcase for Greek game developers – silhouetted by the light from the screen. They can’t take their eyes off “Moribund,” a violent, multiplayer brawler developed by local gaming company Traptics. Two of the four…
Story by Isabelle Hahn · THESSALONIKI, Greece – Efthimis Papadopoulos is screaming into a microphone as blue and pink strobe lights pulse over him at the Silver Dollar, a bar at the center of this seacoast city. It takes a moment to realize that the song is a heavy metal cover of Beyonce’s 2003 pop hit…
Story by Paxtyn Merten · THESSALONIKI, Greece – It’s a Sunday morning at the towering New Osia Xeni Church and people are meandering in and out of arched entryways into a circular rotunda where hundreds are settled in rows of wooden chairs, observing a service that includes traditional Greek Orthodox chanting and the sort of sermon…
Story by Gwendolyn Schanker · THESSALONIKI, Greece – Large plastic blue bins dot the streets of Thessaloniki, intended for citizens to dispose of their plastic, paper and aluminum. The ubiquitous – and often chock-full – receptacles signify rising awareness of recycling initiatives, but Greece still has a long way to go in embracing environmental awareness. The EU…
NU Journalism Abroad - Greece 2017 