I met Sanaz, now an ACT Government Solicitor, on my first day of Law School, at the University of Melbourne. She was a new arrival to Australia. Having fled Iran …

Just before the commencement of the most important part of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy, the priest intones “The Doors, the Doors, in Wisdom let us attend.” This is an injunction …

Open the Orthodox Synaxarion in any given month and you are bound to come across a number of persons who achieved martyrdom for either refusing to convert to Islam, or …

Here is an idea: If you have some left over footage, from the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, for example, instead of discarding it, why not recycle, rehash and reproduce it …

Simonides of Ceos was a man of many talents. According to legend, he was responsible for the invention of the Greek letters ω, η, ξ, ψ. If I had invented …

“Wait a minute,” Mehdi said and hurried to his shop’s counter. A few minutes he returned bearing a glass of steaming Persian, cardamom tea. “I’ve put a strand of saffron …

“Greece is both still Europe but also already the Orient.” Marc Chagall   At first instance, Modernist painter Marc Chagall’s relationship with Greece is not immediately apparent. Referred to by …

As Greek-Australians, we seldom relate Greek fairy tales to our children. Such tales as are recounted, generally derive from the approved canon of the Grimm compendium, with a dash of …

«Σήκου γιόκα μ’ κι βάλ’ του στου ιννιά. Aρχίζ’ου Ντέμπρας,» my grandfather would say, patting me on the head. You knew you were lowest in the family pecking order when …

“She thought: sometime soon she’s going to remember what happened and realise that she’s lost everyone. And then what? Her mind moved over different possibilities… moving laboriously westwards in the …