With deep respect for the tragic loss of this human being, I would like to bring attention to the Greek/American aspect that defined the life of Zak Kostopoulos, an American-born…
Despite the case’s continued developments, it is worth recalling the initial media narrative about the incident. The first headline was “Man who attempted to rob jeweler in downtown Athens dead,”…
“The new words of the day are: sea, highway, road trip and shotgun. A sea is a leather chair with wooden armrests, like the one in the living room. Example:…
I am glad Greece has exited the Third Memorandum. But the closest metaphor I can think of is the case of the man released from prison into the same environment…
We’re done with bailout programs? Seeing as dialogue has long since been abolished in Greece, let’s begin the discussion from what exactly is meant by ‘bailout’: it doesn’t mean obligations…
What do we know now that we didn’t know at the start of the crisis? Here I΄m going to run through some information that would have been useful, but which…
On August 20, Greece is set to complete its final “support programme” or, as it has been more commonly known throughout the crisis, its last “bailout”. The fatalities from the…
More than fifteen years ago Hamid Dabashi had written that, “The re-emergence of civilizational thinking at the last two decades of the 20th century …is a defense mechanism, a futile…
The devil, as they say in English, lies in the details. Being ‘back in the markets’, ‘turning a page,’ even declaring ‘the end of the Greek Crisis’ have all become…
In the summer of 2015 Greece was on every television screen and newspaper front page in the United States. That summer we, like the rest of the world, were captivated…