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To those who think that Greece does not matter today, let me say that they could not make a bigger mistake. Today, like old Greece, is of the utmost importance for anyone looking to find himself.

Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American author

The Greeks You Should Know 500+ individuals and organizations from around the world who keep Hellenism alive
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The Greeks You Should Know 500+ individuals and organizations from around the world who keep Hellenism alive
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Yannis Develekas
Writer
21 Articles
2+ Years
Views In the footsteps of writing The Voice of the Citizen Story Politics-Greece
Yiannis Develekas was born in 1956 in Ioannina. After completing his studies at the Evelpida Military School, he specialized as a military engineer and received an academic education in the fields of civil engineering, business administration at the University of Athens and logistics.
He was for a number of years commander of Engineering Units, supervising engineer of technical and fortification projects and director of administrative support of the GES.
After his retirement, he founded the AHEPA Chapter HJ-23 in Ioannina, with the aim, in coordination with the community, of promoting Hellenism and philanthropy. He took over from 2014 to 2018 the General Directorate of the Continental Opera of the "Tsakalov" Spiritual Center.
He writes articles in the newspaper "Proinos Logos" of Ioannina and in the electronic press. He is a writer, composer and lyricist. He is married and has four sons.
WRITING WORK

[see the Books page for details]
2017: "Aspasia - For the child and the opera". Album, (Publishers, "Apiros Chora"). (ISBN: 9789609394222)
2018: "Raw Footage from Greece". Literature, (Publishers, 'Smashwords', 'Amazon'). (ISBN: 9781005800772)
2019: "Unedited Shots". Literature, (Publishers, "Smashwords", "White Ink"). (ISBN: 9781005219871)
2020: "Love Is". Poetry-Theater, (Publishers, "Smashwords"). (ISBN: 9781005765231)
2021: "With Breakfast Coffee", Chronographs, (Publishers, "Smashwords"). (ISBN: 9781005743765)
2022: "Gossip", political satire., ("Smashwords" Publications (ISBN:9781005773915)
2023: "Erotic Complications", Theater, poetry, satire., ("Smashwords" Publications (ISBN:9780463762271)
2022: "Ordinary People", Poetry, (To be published)
MUSICAL WORKS
Album
"Time", Music Album – Audiobook, (Under publication).
Partnerships
Sonia Theodoridou: "It's love", "My beloved corner", "Unknown you"
Nikos Venetakis: "Shattered Dreams", "Gardener", "The Dream"
Lampros Tzokas: "Macedonians and Gianniotes", "From woe and pain"
Nikos Kypriotis: "Come back home" (instrumental)
Children's Choir: "Epiros mana" (anniversary)

My Articles

THE HORNY HEADED AND THE BRAINLESS

THE HORNY HEADED AND THE BRAINLESS

Last weekend I decided to escape from everyday life for a few hours. That's how I found myself on a nearby beach. I didn't have any great ambitions, nor would I seek the meaning of life there while watching the sunset. Nor would I seek...

SUMMER ROUTES

SUMMER ROUTES

"That summer, my poor mother nearly went crazy with anxiety. I had to communicate with her for over a month and she was ready to look for me through the police or even through the Greek Red Cross which, towards the end of the 1990s...

THE COMMUNICATION ADVISORS

THE COMMUNICATION ADVISORS

After the terrible accident, the communication consultants arrived at the scene of the crime. They sat invisible on the sidelines, they created a profile of each victim, they issued lengthy instructions. Their anxiety? To hide the causes... And their urgency? To save...

GO HOME

GO HOME

Come home! There... in that corner where you learned pre-school and spelling, your first indelible memories await you, the warm bread, your mother's song and an understanding smile. Your dusty books with the...

ORDINARY PEOPLE

ORDINARY PEOPLE

Ordinary people on the street walk in the park, kiss, sing at night. Ordinary people, Peter and Mary, take the suburban train to a certain starting point.……Ordinary people and consistent passersby in society's moments in the world's...

FROM BURNS AND PAIN

FROM BURNS AND PAIN

With a little star in the sky I send you my kiss, may the dawn come, may my wish come true…….May the dawn come, may it enter your dreams, may it adorn your hair, may it steal your heart…….May it adorn your hair, may it become a talisman, may it become a suki...

THE SHADOWS OF THE SEA

THE SHADOWS OF THE SEA

"It wasn't the sea that drowned me, but that kiss of hers that left me half alive, bound to her silence." These are the only words I remember with absolute precision, from that meeting I had many years ago on a barren island in our Archipelago, with a...

SANTA CLAUS' GIFTS

SANTA CLAUS' GIFTS

Many strange things are happening these days of Christmas above and below our feet! On the lower side, the elves are feverishly fighting to cut down the tree that holds the values ​​and ideals on Earth, so that they can then sow...

WIND TURBINE IN… GOOD HANDS

WIND TURBINE IN… GOOD HANDS

            I was very troubled by what happened to me the other night, for no apparent reason or cause. That is, to inexplicably take the paved streets of the lower city of Ioannina towards the unknown! Mysterious things! It all started at the time I had...

MODERN GREEK IN ACTION

MODERN GREEK IN ACTION

Lalakis is a private employee without significant professional development. In fact, he has remained in the same position since the day he was hired, through a medium, at an insurance company in the capital during the era of great waste in Athens...

GO HOME  

GO HOME  

Come home! Here... In that corner where you learned pre-school and spelling. Your first indelible memories await you, the warm bread, your mother's song and an understanding smile. Your dusty books with the...

SANTA'S LETTER 

SANTA'S LETTER 

I had not gone more than a few meters from the hotel when something unexpected happened to me! Second day of Christmas! After the rich meal offered by the hotel management, my stomach felt heavy. It was also her revival...

THE COMMUNICATION ADVISORS

THE COMMUNICATION ADVISORS

After the tragic accident, the communication consultants arrived at the scene of the crime. They sat invisible on the sidelines, profiled each victim in detail and issued instructions. Their anxiety, to hide the causes and premura, to save the...

Greece, Mana

Greece, Mana

Fifty years had already passed since Mr. Michalis first set foot on the wharf of the port of Adelaide, in distant Australia. He hadn't had time to fold the diploma he got from the Greek Army into four, when he called him...

BEYOND ALL LOGIC

BEYOND ALL LOGIC

Although the Holy Monastery of Kastritsis is so close to the city of Ioannina, it will not be more than two or three times that I have visited it over the years! And yet, I should visit her more often, after the beyond all reasonable event I experienced there,...

 FOR EXAMPLE…

 FOR EXAMPLE…

Time was taking its first steps in the ¨70s. In the frozen, unheated room of the six-grade Boys' Gymnasium, fifty-five final students of the practical department, crammed three by one on the desks, we waited uncomfortably for the ancients professor...

AFTERNOON AT THE BEACH

AFTERNOON AT THE BEACH

(Pictures from the beach) The sand is burning the sun... a lady is baking. A girl feels the sea with her fingertips and finds it cold. ….. The sand is burning two children are building a state tomorrow for them it is far away none of it matters ….. The sun...

AND WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?

AND WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?

            European elections are coming, and day by day the political thermometer is getting closer to the red. The first stabbings between the candidates have already begun. Below the belt for men, above the belt for women and in unspecified places...

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