My first conversation with the late Peter Jasonides relating to Epirus took place at a Pontian «παρακάθ’». The traditional Pontian song «Τρυγόνα» was playing and we were comparing lyrics, as …

My tresses having acquired the consistency and style of an over-excited hedgehog, it was that day that I chose to traipse down to the Russian hairdresser near my office, only …

It was while driving to one of the outer suburbs in order to visit a client, marvelling at the extraordinary spread of the urban conglomeration that is our city, narrowly …

In the building hopefully accompanying these words, over the course of three years, Anna Chatzinikolaou, lecturer in Modern Greek Studies at Melbourne University, changed my life and that of all …

Austrian historian Robert Musil has observed that “there is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.” Despite their intended purpose to commemorate, memorial artworks and monuments often have …

-Δε θα νάρτου αύριγιου στν’ κκλησιά, the old lady, of northern Greek extraction informed her friend after the Saturday liturgy. – Γιατί καλέ; Αύριο έχει μνημόσυνο, her Peloponnesian friend replied. …

Dean Kalimniou The whole thing, being based on false pretences was doomed from the start. In December 1803, Count Froberg lately of Germany, received authorisation from Britain’s Secretary at War …

“I hate silence when it is time to speak.”- Saint Kassiane It is Saint Kassiane’s hymn, chanted during the Matins service of Holy Saturday that penetrates my mind as I …

“Lord Byron’s portrait on the wall And the cast iron statuette With folded arms and eyes bent low, Cocked hat and melancholy brow.” – Pushkin, Eugene Onegin Only the initiated …

Theia Tsintesa was not anyone’s auntie but try telling her that, when she fixed you with her penetrating green eyes and twirled the hairs on the mole that adorned her …