The Ghost Mountains
It was December 9, 2019, when I phoned Pavlos Pavlidis, the forensic doctor at Alexandroupolis University Hospital, to ask him about two refugees found in the Soufli area, dead from the cold. "Six were Antonis, not two. Two Somali women found themselves hugging together in the bushes in Feres ...
Two worlds confronted in Moria. Jungle VS – local community
Rashid is sitting with his friends at the edge of the slope, on some pallets and wood. He is over 60 years old and as he says, that he was an officer in the Afghan army. He has lost his left eye in one of the battles against Taliban. He was already one week in Lesvos, in the Moria camp before ...
The journey of a blue balloon
Ηis anxiety was growing from minute to minute. It was not just the fact that he failed in his mission. There were also dangers around him that could end his life at any time. The beautiful blue balloon was wandering around Idomeni refugee camp with great care, but he couldn’t determine his fate. ...
The Museum of Theophilos in Anakasia, Theophilos figure and the celebration of diversity
“Once upon a time there was a poor fustaneforos who was possessed from the “mania” of painting. They called him Theophilos. His brushes were carried on his belt. On the same place, where his ancestors were putting their pistols and knives. He was walking around the villages of Mytilene, he was ...
The “Theasis” of Schinoussa
Schinoussa, belongs to the small Cyclades islands complex. It has been inhabited since ancient times. And according to tradition, its name came from the bush of Shino, which flourishes all over the island. There is, however, a second version, according to which the island was named after the ...
“Welcome to our home,” at the Echinousa residences
Kimolos. The island of chalk, which the ancients Greeks were using as a soap for cleaning clothes and shaving their beard. Also known as Echinousa. Sea urchins. The island of Kimolos was been visited by pirates, that were feared even by the Turks. At 1638, Kimolos was occupied and burned down by ...
Searching for the ID of the dead in the river of ghosts
When you enter the enclosure of Alexandroupolis University Hospital, between the first and the second building, there is a long dark tunnel, with the light of the sun, glaring as it appears on its two edges. About in the middle of the route, from one tunnel opening to the other, there is a white ...
Guardian, on the river of ghosts
The night falls on the Evros Delta. Everything is quiet. Even the dozens of migratory bird species that find shelter there, roar quietly in the reeds and dense vegetation. Only the water flow and the wind whistling between the bushes and the reeds can be heard. Some lights hover over the horizon ...
The children of Moria
In the neighborhoods of Moria, on the side between the mud and the garbage’s, children play casually, running among the narrow alleys created by tents and makeshift accommodations. Perhaps this is a mechanism that they develop, in order to influence as little as possible from what is happening ...
The price of migration
"I thought that my life was about to change if I was leaving Afghanistan. Eventually it changed, but that change had nothing to do with how I was imagining it would be" says Ekramudin Khurami, expressing his pain and sadness over what happened to him. "Nothing would be happier for me than having my ...
