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Edifice Complex: Erdogan and Agia Sophia
Memo To: “Sultan“ Erdogan From: Emperor Justinian Subject: Agia Sophia YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT! It was not three months ago, when writing to express my outrage at the conversion of Trabzon’s Agia Sophia Cathedral-Museum into...
- Posted December 14, 2013
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Rigas Pheraios: My Kind of Hero
I “met” him rather early in life, through his immortal words of the Thourios Ymnos, drummed into our heads by our Greek School Teacher in anticipation of the March 25th Celebration. In the Pantheon of Modern Greek...
- Posted November 13, 2013
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A Partisan Chat: Alexis Parnis
“You see, I still live like a partisan,” as he showed me his house on the slopes of Mt. Hymnetus, in the rapidly suburbanized and gentrified suburb of Peania, outside Athens. The modest house with an attached...
- Posted October 10, 2013
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Ghosts of Communist Greece in Serbia
In spite of a very different climate, in Serbia you are really never far from Greece. The culture, the history, the religion, and even the DNA are often eerily similar. Greek-Serbian interaction goes back from the Byzantine...
- Posted September 7, 2013
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Balkans: End of the First Balkan War
The Treaty of London, signed by the belligerents in May 1913, ended the First Balkan War. The Balkan League, an alliance of four Balkan Orthodox states, had crushed the Ottoman Empire and sent the borders of Turkey...
- Posted June 19, 2013
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Coffee with the Serbian Ambassador to Greece
Greeks and Serbs have a special relationship. “We’re brothers,” goes the saying, but of course siblings often as not have no love for each other, yet my own experience, as a Greek-American married to a Serbian-American and...
- Posted May 2, 2013
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Xanthi Redux
Thrace always draws me, its beauty, mystery, and somehow its remoteness and foreignness from the “Heart of Greece” captivates me. Last year, visiting relatives in Kavala, with a zippy car and no obligations my destination was obvious—Xanthi....
- Posted March 6, 2013
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Ghosts of Smyrna in Izmir
There is something about travel to our lost homelands that creates spectral yearnings in me. I have had the great fortune to visit and to experience nearly every country bordering Greece, or where the Byzantine legacy still...
- Posted January 10, 2013
