Irene Archos

Freelance Journalist, Editor, Scholastic Journalism Teacher

United States of America

Independent journalist working across the US, Middle East and Europe writing on culture, travel, business, environment, science, technology, education, and issues of concern to women esp women of the Hellenic Diaspora

Portfolio
Brooklyn Eagle
07/05/2019
How one urban farm is breaking down barriers to healthy food

For over a decade during the Great Recession, Linda Goode Bryant gathered research and edited segments for an independent documentary about the global food crisis, which had pushed prices so high that people with limited income faced serious barriers to access to healthy food.

Interviews and In-depth Profiles

Gulfnews
12/26/2006
Olive wood carvers under siege

Eisa Khalid Gareeb and his two sons, Walid and Mansour, did not seem very busy as they grouped in their small workshop in Beit Shahour. The Gareebs who have been carving wood for nearly a century are considered relatively newcomers in comparison to Palestinian families which adopted the profession several centuries ago.

Greek American Girl
03/20/2018
Father Moses Berry: From Hippie Bad-Boy Cool-Cat to Humble Rassaphore Orthodox Priest - Greek...

You wouldn't suspect that the jovial Orthodox priest who carries the gold chalise with such reverence from behind the iconostasis of "Mother of Unexpected Joy" church was once a drug dealing, rambling hippie and coffee-house owner with his own underground band, not to mention an illegitimate descendent of Nathaniel Boone, the son of the legendary American hero Daniel Boone.

Science Journalism

KSU ASNE
07/17/2014
Take a Walk on the Wild Side to Find Invisible Ecology on Campus

by Irene ArholekasAcross the Kent State campus, there are hundreds of species sprawled across 900 acres, not including the airport and stadium. It is home to a wide variety of natural habitats, including wetlands, lakes and forests. While most casual walkers cannot fail to notice the ubiquitous black squirrels, they do not see the interconnected...

Vox Magazine
More than Music for Your Ears

report on the use of music therapy in hospital settings in US shown in studies to aid recuperation, lower stress and blood pressure; overview of music therapy across cultures

Voxmagazine
Nuts roasting

Guys, watch those laptops. They are really frying pans for your juevos, as they say in Spanish. For years, researchers have known that tight boxers, hot tubs and sitting for extended periods of time can zap a man's chances of extending his genetic legacy. A study published in February's Human Reproduction adds laptops to that list.

Travel Writing

Ins and Outs
08/30/2013
Tel Aviv: City of Promises

one of many travel piece for former lifestyle magazine Ins and Outs of Long Island City

Nymetroparents
04/28/2015
Places & Spaces, Amazing Astoria!

Astoria, consecutively called 'Little Malta', 'Little Athens", 'Little Pakistan", and 'Little Croatia", has always been home to families, striving artists, and lots of friendly people. Astoria is a living testament to the reality that peace, good will, and neighborliness can exist in a community with so much ethnic and racial diversity.

Pravoslavie
02/29/2016
Hermitage of the Holy Cross Monastery / OrthoChristian.Com

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Ins and Outs
05/14/2014
Movin' On Up

Updates on the real estate and development industries of Long Island City

Greek American Girl
05/26/2013
St. Catherine's and Mount Sinai: The Ungraspable Mystery

Travel essay about the pilgrimage to Mount Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery recounting history and latest digitizing of the library; included interviews with Bedouin guides, non-Christian pilgrims, monks, and hospitality workers

Religious Journalism and Spiritual Essays

Православие.RU
The Importance of Being

That is the real struggle with the modern man-the struggle to be still, the struggle to pray, the yearning for silence even when he struggles by all means to avoid silence. To keep silent even when it is so easy to keep talking.

PEMPTOUSIA
04/23/2017
Morning is a miracle

Morning is such a miracle. I take it for granted on most days. There is no guarantee that I will rise. Or that you will for that matter. It is God's mercy that allows my bones to creak and groan and rise, like a crumpled, crooked marionette , pulled to life and standing by those invisible strings.

Orthodox Christian Network
01/08/2015
Bringing Order out of Disorder: The Trials of a Housewife

The root for the Greek word "teleo," meaning "perfect," is "complete," "finished." In other words, for something to be truly perfect, it must be finished, in all its details. If not, it is imperfect. For the past three months and more, I have been living in a constant state of "unfinishedness."

PEMPTOUSIA
07/15/2014
It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy - Part 2

The Lord in His mercy has taught me a hard lesson. You see, I'm the type of person who complains-a lot! My entire life I have tried to find that mystical and mythical pot at the end of the rainbow-I have been searching for the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect school for my kids, I have been a restless soul always on the lookout for the next big thing.

This Week in Palestine
My Big Fat Palestinian Wedding

humorous essay telling the love story that led to marriage between two cultural opposites-an American and a Palestinian