Maria Karavia

Maria Karavia has traveled extensively to Eastern countries, including India, Thailand, China, and almost all countries in the Middle East, covering journalistic assignments for the newspapers Kathimerini, Mesimvrini, and the pre-dictatorship magazine Eikones, publications where she worked from the beginning of her career. She studied Art History and, alongside her work in newspapers and magazines, she worked for the Third Program of the Hellenic Radio and Greek Television 1, where from 1975 to 1987 she was responsible for the programming, research, and presentation of the shows Eikones and Eikastika. During the dictatorship period, she lived in London and worked for the Greek Service of the B.B.C. Until 1997, she wrote a column for the Sunday edition of the newspaper Kathimerini. In 1966, in collaboration with director Giorgos Emirzas, she produced the four-hour television series Odessa, the Forgotten Homeland for ET 1, the first extensive research conducted on the Greek community of the region. Her study-album on Odessa was published by Agra Publications in 1998.