Once upon a time, a young Turk, working as a press attaché in the Turkish Embassy in London, began to feel homesick. Post-war 1947 London, still reeling after the bombings …

Kyr Yiannis, whom I encounter most Sundays at church, despairs of the Greek race, past, present and emerging. So much so in fact that every time he sees me, he …

«Μες το μαχαλά πέφτει κουμπουριά Οι ζεϊμπέκηδες χορεύουν στου Ντελή Θρακιά Πίνουνε ρακί τρώνε παστουρμά Και χτυπάνε τα ποδάρια με τα γεμενιά..» The year is 2002 and it is Grigoris’ …

The Calabrian word for bagpipes is zabogna, from which the Greek islanders derive their own term for the instrument, τσαμπούνα. Ultimately, the word is descended from the Greek συμφωνία, which …

“Live on then, and yet hang, condemned one, but, lest you are careless in future, this same condition is declared, in punishment, against your descendants, to the last generation!” Ovid, …

A few days ago, while contemplating my next move upon the giant chessboard before the State Library of Victoria, I overheard a university-aged girl with large plastic rimmed glasses and …

I can’t drive past our community day schools, Alphington Grammar, St John’s College and Oakleigh Grammar, without feeling an immense sense of pride and achievement. Visiting Oakleigh Grammar the other …

The other day I attended the commemoration of the Battle of Crete at the Shrine of Remembrance. In a solemn and poignant ceremony, members of the Australian and Greek armed …

To paraphrase a certain Marxist, a spectre is haunting Australia. The spectre of Genocide Recognition. South Australia was the first Australian state to officially recognise the genocide of the Armenians, …

The Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians as the First Peoples of Australia and a formal acknowledgment of the manner in which their land was taken from them by the colonialists …