hellenes without borders

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  Erik Bruns, a Dutch Rhodian

  I have known Erik Bruns for many years, meeting, as one often does these...

  • Posted October 27, 2016
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  Byzantium: Hidden in Plain Sight

  Today, when I am writing this, is May 29. For many Greeks, and other...

  • Posted June 26, 2016
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  Mystra: Byzantium’s Indian Summer

  Mystra figures less prominently in historical commentary and touristic itineraries than other Greek sites,...

  • Posted April 30, 2016
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  The Athenian: Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, an American-Greek

  We met the way most people do these days, digitally, due to common interest...

  • Posted March 24, 2016
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  For a Generation of Greeks, is Cyberspace the new “Thalassa”?

  My readers will know that I have not been particularly bullish about Greece in...

  • Posted January 10, 2016
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  Hello Anatolia: a belated review, and a chat…

  In the world of digital information bombardment, I somehow missed it. It was only...

  • Posted October 26, 2015
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  Homeland: The Greeks of Utah

  After visiting Greek communities in so many parts of the world, it only makes...

  • Posted September 25, 2015
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  Book Review: “The Great Fire”, by Lou Ureneck

  Smyrna’s (Izmir’s) destruction by fire and sword during the horrible month of September 1922,...

  • Posted June 28, 2015
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  Hydra: Summers on my Father’s Isle

  For this month’s column, I wanted to avoid discussing the existential situation in Greece...

  • Posted May 18, 2015
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  Another Lesson from 1821

  Once again this year I listened as my daughter’s Greek School here in the...

  • Posted April 11, 2015
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  Greece: Where the Sidewalk Ends …and the IDs Look Fake

  I pondered a great deal as to what to write in my monthly column....

  • Posted February 18, 2015
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  The Eloquence of Humble Architecture: Homes Lost …and Refuge Gained

  Stone by stone we built, A poor corner. Our lives we enclosed, in Kokkinia...

  • Posted December 24, 2014
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  Modern Greece and Greeks …In Whose Image?

  Many Greeks and foreigners consider today’s Hellas to be the resurrection of a lost...

  • Posted November 14, 2014
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  Should “Hellenes without Borders” be allowed to vote in Greece?

  My vote on this, for what it’s worth, is “No.” I am not making...

  • Posted October 19, 2014
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  Rhodes Riches: An NGO Model for Greece

  In the course of living and writing in Serbia, I had the great fortune...

  • Posted September 13, 2014
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  My Favorite Greek Road Trips: Athens to Nauplion

  When we lived in Athens several years ago, just before the cracks in the...

  • Posted June 6, 2014
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  Unofficial Histories: 1821

  This past weekend we celebrated our ancestors’ Revolution against the Ottoman Empire with a...

  • Posted April 16, 2014
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  Skopje (FYROM) 2014

  In choosing the title, “Skopje 2014,” I am referring not to the costly, kitsch...

  • Posted February 16, 2014
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  Edifice Complex: Erdogan and Agia Sophia

  Memo To: “Sultan“ Erdogan From: Emperor Justinian Subject: Agia Sophia YOU DIDN’T BUILD...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Posted May 2, 2013
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  Xanthi Redux

  Thrace always draws me, its beauty, mystery, and somehow its remoteness and foreignness from...

  • Posted March 6, 2013
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