Dean Kalimniou
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Diatribe: Flying the flag on Australia Day
Kevan, an Armenian from Iraq, was made a citizen of this country on Australia Day, a few years ago. The year after, he came by my house and happened upon …
«H λυρική στιγμή»: Ethics and aesthetics in the poetry of the late Archbishop Stylianos
Dean Kalimniou «Ἄν γράφει ὁ ποιητὴς εἶναι μονάχα γιὰ νὰ μαρτυρήσει ὅτι τὰ πάντα εἶναι ἄρρητα κι εἶναι τῷ ὅντι σὰν νὰ μὴν ὑπάρχουν ἀφοῦ δὲν ὑποτάσσονται». Συζυγίες (Νεροσυρμὴ 2002). …
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Diatribe: The Dickensian Papadiamantis
“If she lived to celebrate other Christmasses, the heartless mother-in-law and unwitting infanticide did not enjoy a happy old age.” Alexandros Papadiamantis, “The Christmas Bread.” One of my favourite ways …
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Kazamias 2024: Dean Kalimniou predicts the events set to take place in the new year with a twist
ΚΑΖΑΜΙΑΣ 2024 Having observed every single New Year’s custom made mention of on the internet, including but not limited to: the ritual hurling of the fortuitous pomegranate upon the threshold …
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Diatribe: Neobyzantine Christmas
Isidoros, known to the general populace as Izzy, is a Neo-Byzantine. What this means is that even though the last vestiges of Byzantine power fell in the fifteenth century, they …
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Diatribe: The Mehmed Marbles
Had Greece not been liberated, we may have been speaking today of the Mehmed Marbles, rather than the “Elgin” Marbles, a colonialist-imperialist term whose use by our national broadcaster, has …
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Diatribe: Greeks of Görlitz – A study in German collaboration
I first learned of the Greeks of Zgorzelec in Poland (formerly the German imperial city of Görlitz) from Preston-based Faye Mangos, who describes in her autobiography “A Cry of the …
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Diatribe: At the Greek Book Fair
“Not so much peeved as content,” I responded. “This is my zen face.” Buddhist manuscripts in cursive Greek, dated later than the second century AD, have been recently found in …
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Diatribe: When women kill
The ancients feared the Strix as the worst kind of monster; a malevolent bird that would emerge under cover of darkness in order to feast on the blood and flesh …
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Greek weddings under the Southern Cross
The stiff, studio-posed wedding photographs of my newly arrived relatives haunt me now. The people they depict have either long departed or, have placed me in the position of living …