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The last two years

This week marks two years since 7 October 2023, two years of apocalyptic devastation, during which the people of Gaza have endured unimaginable suffering. Over

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The nightmare Europe needs

“When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness with crime, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders.” The

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Postcards from Naxos

Every August, the Greek islands come to life. Greeks travel there to escape the intense heat of the cities, looking to cool off in the

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Escalating assault on journalists

The escalating assault on journalists in the Kurdish Region of Iraq is disturbing. What we are witnessing is not simply “violations” of press rights, but

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Fear in the city

About ten years ago I was travelling in Naples. I was staying at a hostel when I struck up conversation with a man from the

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The power to define

It took me years to understand, after moving to Greece, that “racism” is often used as a catch-all for many different forms of personal prejudice.

Do you support the violent dispossession of me and my family?

Paths and pitfalls

I’ve been reading Mohammed El-Kurd’s Perfect Victims. He’s a Palestinian from Jerusalem and a poet. I don’t quite know how to describe the book: it’s

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How to build a detention centre

How do you build a migrant detention centre that nobody wants? That’s the question the Greek government has been grappling with for years as it

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Holding on to hope

This week, Netanyahu yet again visited Trump in Washington. Despite a warrant from the International Criminal Court issued for his arrest, the USA – with

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