Dean Kalimniou
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Multicultural marriage
‘Multiculturalism is like a marriage: you have to remind each other how good it is’
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Constance the Falcon – ruler of Siam
Of all the obscure and yet impossibly implausible Greeks that have graced the pages of history, perhaps the most alluring is Constance Hierax, or Phaulkon – literally ‘the Falcon’.
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Museum of our innocence
“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory of this there is no doubt.” Orhan Pamuk.
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Death of a stereotype
From the ‘80s to now, Dean Kalimniou looks at how perceptions and stereotypes have changed for Greeks and Australians
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Silence speaks from Sinai
Dean Kalimniou looks at the life of the young Australian monk, Father Theophilos who lives in the monastery of Saint Catherine’s in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Saying yeah to SAE… again
In this week’s diatribe, Dean Kalimniou looks at his own experiences with SAE and how Greeks of the diaspora can be treated as Greeks rather than strangers.
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Ömer’s Olympics
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has asked the IOC officials to return the Olympic flame to its origin – Mount Olympus in Western Anatolia.
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Twitter twits
A tweet by Greek Olympian Voula Papachristou brings the racial debate back onto the public platform.
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Community gardens
“The vast majority of the Greek community is possessed of rural roots,” writes Dean Kalimniou in this week’s diatribe.