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TI AMO AND THE SOUNDTRACKS OF OUR LIVES
I am just old enough to remember pale-blue suited and immaculately permed uncles and older cousins entering into the matrimonial estate in the eighties. In furtherance of the ancillary inductive...
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Urë Me Një Hark
“Five more hours and it will be a thousandtwo hundred, sixty-six years and a day,since the bridge-way here fell crumbling to the ground.” Dante, The Inferno.Award winning Albanian novelist Ismail...
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SPEAKING GREEK AT THE MARCH
It was a few years ago now that I was engaged in marching towards the Shrine of Remembrance, clad in full revolutionary regalia. Two elderly women, who were marching directly in front of me, were busy...
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ZOGRAPHOS: ARCHITECT OF AUTONOMOUS EPIRUS
During the month of February, when Epirotes around the world commemorate the declaration of the autonomy of Northern Epirus, now part of the Republic of Albania, my thoughts often turn to one of them...
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SPEAK GREEK IN MARCH
Not a few things made a profound impression upon me at the launch of the Speak Greek in March campaign, which took place last Sunday at the new improved Greek Orthodox Community HQ. The first was the...
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: GREEK AUSTRALIAN WOMEN AND EDUCATION
Is it possible in this day and age to articulate or identify a particularly Greek-Australian attitude to girls and education? This was the question I asked myself as I listened to a distinguished group...
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HAITI AND THE GREEK REVOLUTION
“Haiti’s connection with Greece has more to do with modern Greece than with Ancient Greece,” writes Caribbean writer Jean Charles. He goes on to say: “The culture of faking the sentiment of patriotism...
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SPEAKING GREEK IN MARCH, IN OLBIA
"Kαι τώρα πώς εξέπεσαν, πώς έγιναν, να ζουν και να ομιλούν βαρβαρικά, βγαλμένοι -ω συμφορά!- απ'τον ελληνισμό.» Cavafy.If Cavafy's poem «Ποσειδωνιάται» is anything to go by, the phenomenon of...
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ORLOV: FIRST DRAFT AT A GREEK REVOLUTION
“The Orlov rebellion… was absurd in conception, devoid of genuine libertarian teleology and brutal and chaotic in execution.” J. C AlexanderIn the popular Greek imagination, there was the fall of...
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PARADE
Every year while attending the Greek Community's annual 1821 Revolution Commemoration at the Shrine of Remembrance, I am reminded of the verses of Epirote poet Panagiotis Noutsos' brilliant poem...
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THE BYZANTINES OF CORNWALL
In the common consciousness of the Greeks, Byzantium and its last ruling dynasty, the Palaeologus family came to an end on 29 May 1453, when the last Emperor, Constantine Palaeologus, fell in battle,...
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It is quite difficult for Greek Australians to oppose the erection of statues of Kemal Ataturk in various sites around Australia, and indeed the proposed erection by the City of Hume in order to...
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ANZAC PARADE
"Australian soldiers, sailors and pilots saw columns of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek women and children being forced along the countryside in death marches. They saw their pitiful, bedraggled state....
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BEYOND PONTUS: THE HYPERPONTIAN PRINCIPALITY OF THEODORO
Of the Empire of Trebizond or Trapezous, much has been written. As a multi-ethnic state situated in the Pontic region of the southern Black Sea, it was the terminus of the famed Silk Road and it was...
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WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS
A Pontian friend relates a remarkable story whereby she once employed the assistance of a Turkish hairdresser for the purpose of taming her unruly tresses, in suburban north-west Melbourne. Peering...
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ΤΙΣ ΠΤΑΙΕΙ;
«Τις Πταίει;» or "Who is to blame?" was a manifesto published by Greek politician and subsequent Prime Minister Charilaos Trikoupi in the Athens daily Kairoi, in 1872. He blamed the King for Greece's...
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Der türkische Führer
Adolf Hitler, when planning the Holocaust, is said to have rationalized his acts by stating: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” While evidence for this quote is scant,...
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ADELPHOPOIISIS: SAME SEX PARTNERSHIPS IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
"For their joining together in union of love and life, we pray to the Lord. That the Lord our God unite them in perfect love and inseparable life, we pray to the Lord." Sinai Euchologion, twelfth...
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SAMIAN SALE
“If we allow non-Samians to join our committee, we open up the flood-gates. Next thing you know, you will be receiving letters from the Brotherhood signed “Yours Sincerely, Mehmed Mahmoud,...
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THE YEAR OF SPEAKING GREEK DANGEROUSLY
Καλή Χρονιά. Owing to the indifference of my educators, up until the age of ten, I labored under the misapprehension that the term 'Οράιτ' (alright), optionally suffixed with 'ρε μάιτ' was acceptable...
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