We are sitting around the kitchen table, preparing dinner. As this is a family dinner, my mother is preparing the family dinner staple, papoutsakia, eggplant stuffed with mince, topped with …

The garden presented as visibly more unkempt than in my previous visits. Here and there, a few wild flowers broke the hegemony of green within the lawn, a presumption that …

If there is one Olympian deity of which there exists no statue, then surely it is that of the goddess Metis, Zeus’ first wife. A daughter of the primordial water …

“When Tasia came to Australia in the mid-Sixties, it was at the invitation of her newly married sister. The plan was for Tasia to help her sister with her baby …

I remember the first and only time I ever drew a swastika clearly. I was six years old and had recently watched the Greek classic film «Οι Γερμανοί Ξανάρχονται» (The …

When I was young, memories of the Second World War in Greece were still fresh and most of the people I knew had either experienced it, or its aftermath. Their …

If Greek-Australian culture is going to survive, then it needs to be neither reactionary, that, is responding solely to stimuli emanating from Greece or the mainstream, nor mimetic. Instead, it …

For weeks I would catch snatches of Torres Strait Islander songs when walking into my childrens’ bedrooms. Then, my eldest daughter appointed me as art critic, as she completed her …

My people and your people, my Syrian Brother, are dead … What can be Done for those who are dying? Our Lamentations will not satisfy their Hunger, and our tears …

“The Cretans are vastly picturesque: great number of blacks, male and female.”: Edward Lear 1846 According to the British consul in Chania, Crete, writing in 1858 about British efforts to …