Dean Kalimniou reflects on the merchants and businessmen who set about securing the necessary infrastructure that would ensure the viability of an emerging Greek state

Dean Kalimniou’s daughter’s love of a παραμύθι (fairy tale) is understandable, but the Greeks who revel in the tales of newfound Hellenism, not so much.

Italian or Greek? Dean Kalimniou delves into the origins of pasta.

Dean Kalimniou reflects on the 90s, when the epigonoi of the first generation migrants were kings and ruled their limitless world.

Media commentary over the funeral of the Old Calendarist Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Fthiotis Kallinikos reveals an unnerving Dadaesque preoccupation with his corpse.

Dean Kalimniou looks at the significance of the term ‘OXI’ through Greek history.

Dean Kalimniou on why Cavafy’s poem Poseidonians still resonates today.

Dean Kalimniou on the revelation that members of his ‘tribe’ are possessed of a certain renown with regard to the resonance of their voices.

‘Within the dark of anguish/I inhabited your footsteps/these you told me/ are the yeast of resurrection’.

Dean Kalimniou addresses mainstream journalists who posit that ‘wog’ is a term of endearment.