The building where the acclaimed Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy lived in Alexandria, Egypt, has been lovingly restored and opened to the public. The house in Alexandria, Egypt that was once home to ...

Cavafy’s poetic narratives are often like parables, rarely extending beyond 30 or 40 lines, and rather than depict history as a progress from one era to another, this one ironizes the idea of ...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (RNS) — He was born and died in Alexandria, Egypt, then home to a large Greek community that began immigrating to Egypt in the 19th century. Writing primarily in Greek and little ...

The more or less undying fascination with the poetry of Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), largely but hardly exclusively by the gay audience he addressed both expressly and subliminally, has not ...

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The youngest of seven sons of a prosperous Greek merchant, Constantin P Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1863, where he spent most of his life, working as a government clerk in the area of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I am talking to Laurie Anderson, sprite-turned-grande dame of New York’s contemporary arts scene, about her ...

My obsession with C.P. Cavafy, the definitive poet of modern Greek, started almost 40 years ago. Neither classicist nor philologist, certainly not a systematic scholar of anything, I was captivated by ...

A documentary from the Onassis Foundation that surveys the influence of poet C. P. Cavafy. To mark the 160th anniversary of C. P. Cavafy’s birth, the Onassis Foundation hosted a week-long festival in ...