Eleni Mahaira-Odoni: Biographical Note

ELENI MAHAIRA-ODONI, political scientist. Mahaira-Odoni has taught political theory and international law for several years. While an Editorial Associate of Telos, she translated extensively from French and Italian on Western European politics, economics, philosophy, and culture. She also published critical reviews with partiuclar emphasis on the political philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre; among them, ``Sartre Revisited'' (Telos, no. 80, 1989), and ``Sartre's Paradox'' (Telos, no. 81, 1989). In 1991, she produced her debut vocal recording ``Mistral,'' released by Zoning Records. In 1992 she translated and edited for the Pontiki Press the Greek version of Monteagle Stearns's Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy in Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus (Council on Foreign Relations, 1992). She has contributed a long chapter on Greek ``Government and Politics'' for the volume Greece: A Country Study (Library of Congress, 1995). She is the Greek translator of the book, The Greek Paradox: Promise vs. Performance, G. T. Allison and Kalypso Nicolaidis, eds., (M.I.T. Press, 1997). She is currently translating from English and French a collaborative volume on byzantine agricultural economy to be published in Greece by the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece. She is co-chair of the Greek Study Group at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University.