Stories of Conflict and Love

August 20, 2018

Endings

What does it mean to pronounce an era over? What does it mean to declare a conflict to have...

by Roxani

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April 17, 2018

Echoes

It is the end of another day of research in Colombia and I am visiting one of the many...

by Roxani

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April 14, 2017

Spectacles of death

Reflections on motherhood and weapons systems, public death in Syria, and the spectacle of dying in a Greek hospital

by Roxani

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Featured, Home Features, In Search of Home(s)

Becoming

The first fluency I lose when I do not soak in a language every day is intimacy. I become stiffly polite, reverting to the formal 'you': σας in Greek, usted in...

Greece features, Home Features, In Search of Home(s)

Estranged tongues

Naming ghosts of patriarchy and misogyny was a feminist project to which I have committed my life with little hesitation or regard for propriety (ever the fear raised to...

Greece features, Home Features, In Search of Home(s)

Call You By Your Name

(With thanks to Andre Aciman, for a variation of the title.) “Very healthy, we believe you. A girl, though? Impossible! This family only has boys.” That was, allegedly, my...