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Alexander Billinis

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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.

Features

Hello Anatolia

Chrysovalantis Stamelos guides us through Greece and Izmir.

Features

American Saints, and Sinners, in the Hell of the Smyrna Catastrophe

A book review of The Great Fire by Lou Ureneck.

Features

Unofficial histories: 1821

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

Features

Our great Church … in captivity

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

Features

A partisan’s odyssey

Boris Pasternak contemporary Alexis Parnis talks to Neos Kosmos about his time in the resistance and how this had impacted life in the Greece of today

Features

Bulkes: the Greek “republic” in Yugoslavia

Greek communists were shipped off to Bulkes, in former Yugoslavia, and created a mini-Greece.

Features

The ghosts of Smyrna in Izmir

The Hellenic spirit still lingers in Smyrna, writes Alexander Billinis.

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