I love crossing borders, whether official ones with their lines and barriers, or ‘Schengen’ borders, which give the dangerous illusion that intra-European Union crossings matter as or less than those …

We Hydriots are a proud, yet prickly, people. Our island is rough hewn and to a degree, so are we, though our hearts are big and our minds quick. I …

A centuries-old conflict in a region known for discord has returned, once again, to the headlines. The so-called Macedonian Question—in this case, most specifically, what name to assign to this …

It had been a long day and, as is often the case when travelling in Greece, a frustrating one. No doubt for my then six-year-old son, sweating in his new …

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 …

The legacy of the population exchange, and the scar of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, is everywhere in Greece.

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

Alexander Billinis’ love of Byzantine remnants took him on a journey through southern Italy where he encountered the Griko people, language and culture.

Alexander Billinis explores the Greek presence in Hungary; one of the oldest and most interesting in Greece’s modern diaspora.

Alexander Billinis explores several factors that may be colluding to produce a violent thaw in the region in the near future.