ISTANBUL: How many revolutions can one generation manage?
With poetic precision, angry demonstrators are challenging Iran s aging revolutionaries. Paradoxically, many are their own children, disillusioned by Khomeinism and the system of the (...)
Instead of toppling the increasingly unpopular Blair government the apparent suicide of a discreet scientist has signalled open season on the BBC, writes Iason Athanasiadis in London
It is a classic political scandal that is already being compared (...)
The harsh rhetoric emanating from EU leaders in the run-up to the Seville Summit failed to translate into similarly hard-line action over immigration, writes Iason Athanasiadis
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The fierce verbal battles that Europe's prime (...)
When Bethlehem deportees Mohamed and Mamdouh arrived in Athens, little did they know that they were arriving in Europe's most pro-Palestinian country. They gave an exclusive interview in Athens to Iason Athanasiadis
Emerging from the Church of the (...)
Growing anti-Semitism in France has renewed calls for Jews of the Diaspora to emigrate to Israel. Iason Athanasiadis on the Zionist version of the right to return
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The Le Pen saga may have stunned large parts of moderate Europe (...)
Over a hundred thousand Egyptians -- mostly migrant workers -- have chosen to hop across the Mediterranean. Iason Athanasiadis meets Greece's Egyptian community
The promised land has long been known as the United States. In recent years, however, (...)
The Bush administration breaks a half-century taboo and considers using nuclear weapons in future conflicts. Iason Athanasiadis reports
A secret policy review obtained by the Los Angeles Times outlines a modified nuclear policy whereby the United (...)
Revelations of a secret US government report lead investigators to question whether Israeli intelligence had prior knowledge of the 11 September events. Iason Athanasiadis reports
The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) announced on Tuesday 5 (...)
On the eve of the grand opening of the Alexandria Library, Magda Shahin, Egyptian ambassador to Greece, and Demosthenes Konstantinou, Greek ambassador to Egypt, speak to Iason Athanasiadis
'Greece's place in our hearts is not enough; it should also (...)
St Catherine's monastery in the Sinai, one of the most important centres of Orthodox monasticism, celebrated 17 centuries of uninterrupted asceticism last month. Iason Athanasiadis attended the event
There is a repetitive, forlorn beeping whose (...)