Alexander Billinis
Features –
Greeks in Hungary: a history in two acts
Alexander Billinis explores the Greek presence in Hungary; one of the oldest and most interesting in Greece’s modern diaspora.
Dialogue –
In the Balkans, beware the thaw of frozen conflicts
Alexander Billinis explores several factors that may be colluding to produce a violent thaw in the region in the near future.
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Greeks in Utah, my home state
Having visited and written about Greek communities in various parts of the world, Alexander Billinis turns his attention back home, to his own Greek community.
News –
Chicago: Greeks of the ‘Second City’
Chicago is a case study in chain migration, as relatives and fellow villagers sponsored others to come over, and this process continued for several generations
Dialogue –
2017: A rejection of the mosaic, and a return to primary colours?
Greek American Alexander Billinis reflects on the state of world politics as we prepare to bid farewell to 2016.
News –
Modern Greece’s first diaspora
What happened in Venice in the years immediately prior to and after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 in many ways set the stage for all subsequent Greek migrations.
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American Saints, and Sinners, in the Hell of the Smyrna Catastrophe
A book review of The Great Fire by Lou Ureneck.
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Unofficial histories: 1821
Greek American Alexander Billinis contemplates whether every revolution, every war of independence, is also in some ways a civil war.
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Our great Church … in captivity
Alexander Billinis believes the Ecumenical Patriarch should “exile” himself from Turkey to truly be free in this actions