Alexander Billinis
Features –
Forgotten merchants: The pioneers who shaped early Greek American success
Our standard Greek American narrative tells the story of a late nineteenth and twentieth century mass migration of largely poor villagers, part of the huge wave of Southern and Eastern …
Dialogue –
Post-mass-Diaspora age: Toward a new motherland-Diaspora model
Ages are often defined by the media and technologies available. We now live in a world as a virtual café, where, however, the “sidebar chats” off-screen and offline may not …
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Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ mandate and the diaspora: Opportunities for meaningful change
Now that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won his runoff election with a substantial mandate, it is perhaps worth asking about some of the prime minister’s priorities. Mitsotakis is an …
Life –
My visit to the Hydra Nautical Academy: Present and Past
Everyone who visits Hydra sees the Nautical Academy, as it is at most 50 meters from the Hydra pier where the transit boats dock, just set your gaze above the …
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Exploring Spetses through its historical archives
Spetses was never off my horizon, at least during my youthful summers on Hydra, or in subsequent years, when I visited my cousin’s house, with its unmatched sea views. A …
Dialogue –
Diaspora Stories: Did a small number of Greek cotton merchants change the course of the American Civil War?
Such questions are hard indeed to answer with any certainty. The American Civil War (1861-1865) hedged on a number of issues, and not least among them was the role of …
Dialogue –
The Diaspora, voting, and the question of engagement
As on other Sunday afternoons with considerable regularity, New York’s Lou Katsos hosted an online panel under the auspices of the East Mediterranean Business Cultural Alliance (EMBCA). On January 15 …
Dialogue –
Greeks and Ukraine, a diaspora story beneath the headlines
The Greeks’ presence on the northern shore of the Black Sea, what is now Ukraine and Russia, goes back millennia, even before the Classical Greek era. The Myceneans, one of …
Diaspora: Time to read history and compare notes
How often do we speak across the Diaspora, aside from people who are family? How often do Greek Americans coordinate and communicate with Greek Australians? What about with Greeks in …
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The Treaty of Kucuk Kayndardji and the Greek Revolution
Few events could have been more important in the road to Greek national agency than this treaty in 1774 which ended the Russo-Turkish War. The war itself had been devastating …