Diaspora
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Odyssey to Freedom
Categorized into seven parts, Odyssey to Freedom takes the reader through a journey of history, struggle, and human emotion. Valentino…
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George Bizos has left its mark on me indelibly and has defined me definitively and irrevocably
He fought alongside his father, encountering adversity multiplied by the difficulties imposed by the regime at the time and, through…
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George Bizos laid to rest: ‘His life was so large’
Bizos, who died last week aged 92, was remembered as a man of humility, integrity, and above all as an…
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George Bizos, Anti-Apartheid Lawyer Who Defended Mandela, Dies at 92
George Bizos, who fled the Nazi occupation of his native Greece at age 13 to become one of South Africa’s…
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Human rights advocate George Bizos has died
Renowned human rights advocate George Bizos has died aged 92. He died late this afternoon. The Citizen Bizos celebrated his…
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Racism in Germany: A Chinese-American reckoning
I hadn’t seen him coming. Beina Xu Deutsche Welle The man was short, stocky, roughly my father’s age. Suddenly he…
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George Petrou – Painter of Australian veteran heroes receives OAM award
He was honoured for his service to the visual arts and to veterans, as he paints and supports Australian veterans.…
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Our 11 year old hero Hector Vasyli
Hector Vasyli was an 11-year-old Brisbane newspaper boy and altar boy in 1918. He was the son of a Cypriot-born…
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What would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr say today?
Protests in America that have spread around the world. We are all still watching. What is changing and what has…
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A man with an eye for a story
He is 10 years old, wears a patched grey suit, speaks fluent English and carries himself like an adult. Jane…
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Small Istanbul publisher sustains Armenian literature
Now Aras Publishing has launched a children’s division and opened a new editorial office, built with donations from readers, that…
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Tsiolkas novel ‘Damascus’ wins Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Mr Chiolkas’s first novel was 1995’s Loaded. In 2005 the Melbourne writer won the Age Book of the Year prize…
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How Kurdish diaspora groups are pushing for unity over their divided homeland
The concert brought together thousands of members of the Kurdish diaspora under the motto “Em Bibin Yek”, or “Let us…
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Impeachment sets up Ukrainian Americans for 2020 political role
Ukrainian Americans, who have seen President Trump and GOP lawmakers repeatedly slam their former country as a center of corruption,…
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‘You exiled me to Manus’: Behrouz Boochani lashes Labor’s ‘shameful’ response to NZ arrival
Less than 24 hours after marking his “bittersweet” arrival in New Zealand, Kurdish refugee Behrouz Boochani has used Twitter to…
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It Must Be Heaven – interview with director Elia Suleiman
The two actors operate in a register that might be called deadpan, or at least underplayed. But the world around…
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