“First they came for the Socialists…”

Recent Posts

• Do Kurds need to do this just right now, at this very moment?
• “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…”
• Durrell on Cavafy: “He was by divine choice only a poet…”
• Riz Ahmed, Immigration, Suketu Mehta and me, Identity Politics, and Varun and Sidharth’s “shining future”
• Spain and Catalan domino effect and Barca: has the European Union encouraged orgy of separatism and regionalism?
• Sometimes a shofar is just a shofar.
• Suketu Mehta in Foreign Policy addendum, whole text
• “We reject the refugee in the orderly nations because he is the sum of our worst fears, the looming future of the 21st century brought in human form to our borders. “
• Video from Times: 36 Hours in Athens
• Photo: A Mughal lady in a moonlit terrace holding a lamp which she conceals under her dupatta. Delhi, c.1720.
• The Turkish Islamist’s frightening animus toward Alevis
• Catherine Tate, prophet: When England wakes up it’ll be 1951
• Why are Turks flocking to Greece?
• The Balkanist’s heart goes thump thump
• It’s immigration, “stupid”: the United States’ best-kept secret…streams of thought on a hot Sunday afternoon
• “…a Maoist struggle session…”
• Damir Imamović explains what traditional Bosnian music ‘Sevdah’ is
• England and Irish blood p.s., Palestine 1948
• Photo: at the Fakr-ul Masjid
• Ξαναπέστο
• To the Turkish government: “Stop insulting our member states by comparing their leaders to fascists and Nazis.”
• Is England ready for fresh Irish blood on its hands?
• Lebanese food: September 14th and the Feast of the Holy Cross in Ein Zebde, Shouf
• From “My.Kali”: Gender Identity through Umm Kulthum “el-sitt”
• “Birtsevits” — Watching Serbia-Italy FIBA
• Maria Sharapova on Serena Williams: ‘Maybe We’ll Become Friends. Or Not.’
• From the Times: Shaw’s fascination with Stalin
• Palestinians still protesting Greek control of their Church
• Modi criticism mounts: from the Guardian’s Michael Safi
• “The Myth of the Andalusian paradise…” — “…just modifying the history in a declared desire to extract a pre-established moral.”
• “The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain” by Dario Fernandez-Morera
• The West’s Neoliberal South Asian darling (and for me a personified insult to Hinduism)…
• Andrew Sullivan: “The Boston Rally Exposed the Left’s Intolerance of Free Speech”
• From the BBC: “Triple talaq: The women who fought instant divorce in India”
• Barcelona addendum: why the Western, “leftist” intelligentsia bears a nasty share of the guilt, part I
• Barcelona: “No tendréis mi odio” — “You won’t have my hate.”
• “Today is the Feast of the Dormition… ” (reposted from a couple of years ago)
• Michael Eric Dayson: “Facing this unadorned hate tears open wounds from atrocities that we have confronted throughout our history.”
• From the Times: ‘At the Stroke of Midnight My Entire Family Was Displaced’
• #stopmindborders — the New Neo-Greek recovers his conscience
• Ireland — Gimme a break; I can’t believe this is even up for discussion
• Photo: Oum Kulthum in Paris, 1967 — and footage of three concerts
• Memo to: a certain generation of “progressive” Turks
• Πουλάμε τρέλα — “selling craziness” — ordinary Greeks’ take on the Greek “recovery”
• “Correction…”: See, nobody knows when Tishabuv is.
• YES! “…the first act of mass defiance against the ongoing purge.”
• That I would ever be posting anything put out by the American Hellenic Council (whoever they are*) is kind of surreal…
• The Horde
• Oh, here we go again…
• My 2016 man of the year