EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Made With Love

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Made With Love

On Sunday night, Tasoula invited us to her house for dinner. This was an incredibly kind gesture and we were all very thankful. She, along with some of the other ladies, cooked a delicious meal for all of us as well as many others who came to the dinner also. I sat outside with the ladies for a bit to ask them if they were going to eat too; their answer didn't surprise me, but it might have shocked anyone not familiar with the Greek culture. They said that they didn't want to eat because they had been cooking all day. I had a conversation with Tasoula again yesterday about all the work that she does. She mentioned how she does everything with her heart, and because she wants to. She said she would never cook or clean if she didn't want to; this meant a lot to me because it showed that she truly works with the best intentions. It amazes me how much work all these women do and how they do it with so much love.

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EC Eastern Security Studies Program

In the summer of 2011, as the "Arab Spring" was unfolding and the "Eurozone Crisis" was entering its second year, the Emmanuel College Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program was established in Crete, as a way to make the location the classroom. Beyond the grand theoretical, historical and political understanding that can be achieved through reading and classroom discussion and exchange, a more immediate, intimate and truer appreciation of the complexities can only achieved by experiencing the cultures, languages of personal interaction.

Since 2012 students have been able to combine an intensive curricular study, with the experience of immersion and living in a local setting. The geopolitical and geoeconomic forces that have acted in the region for centuries, can be identified in the classroom, but they can only be understood by being there. This year's EC EMSS Program will add a fourth week of study, experience and exploration and will also travel to the islands of Rhodes, and Cyprus. In Rhodes we will be partnering with the Prefecture of Southern Aegean and the Aegean University, while in Cyprus we will be hosted by the University of Nicosia.