Dean Kalimniou reviews Alexander Billinis’ latest book, Hidden Mosaics: An Aegean Tale.

Happy New Year 2020. Let’s turn the clock back 200 years, to 1820, just before the Greek Revolution in 1821. In the century or so prior to the Greek Revolution, …

The Eagle Has Two Faces: Journeys through Byzantine Europe is a recently released ‘travelogue’ by Alexander Billinis, exploring the remnants of the Byzantine.

There are few cities so sublime as Trieste. It is a work of art, architecture, geography topography and variety. Its people are a mosaic, at once Byzantine, Hapsburg, and Italian, …

Given the Greeks’ large-scale migration to the area, the Austrian capital is historically one of the most significant for modern Hellenism.

I remember it well, particularly on a freezing day here in Chicago, though over three decades have passed. We anchored our boat at Molos, a small bay well south of …

Greek American Alexander Billinis contemplates whether every revolution, every war of independence, is also in some ways a civil war.

I have had the pleasure of writing for Neos Kosmos on occasion for the past several years. This is truly one of the best publications in the Diaspora, and I …

Last August my family and I packed our bags and left Chicago, the anchor of the American Midwest, for South Carolina, the heart of the American South. The ‘South’ conjures …

Alexander Billinis believes the Ecumenical Patriarch should “exile” himself from Turkey to truly be free in this actions