Martyr on the Mediterranean: Athens' double crisis (Iason Athanasiadis, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/06/martyr-mediterranean-athens-double-crisis-160621061729540.html

Wired on Mount Athos (Iason Athanasiadis, Al Jazeera)

A crowd of men mills around the port of Ouranoupolis, the so-called City of the Sky and the departure point from which pilgrims and monks enter Mount Athos, the second holiest place in Orthodox Christianity. One of them poses for his selfie-stick against the ageing ship that will convey them along a peninsula studded for a thousand years with 20 monasteries and a tradition of male monasticism.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/04/wired-mount-athos-greece-technology-160428081450130.html

Greece and the swansong of the nation-state (Iason Athanasiadis, Al Jazeera)

Unlike Syria and Libya's fiery implosions, the nation-state is folding silently in Greece. So what is globalised neoliberalism doing to us?

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/04/greece-swansong-nation-state-160417120214124.html

Privilege and the Panama Papers (Iason Athanasiadis, Al Jazeera)

One of the most popular programmes on US television in the 1980s was an American vanity show called Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. It was unashamedly mindless TV, permanently see-sawing between aspirational and voyeuristic as it took us on rose-tinted journeys through the villas and private jets of the wealthy.

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Terror attacks indicate our system is malfunctioning (Iason Athanasiadis, Al Jazeera)

Late on the night of the Brussels bombing, regulars sitting in a cafe built under the brick arches of a medieval gate in the Medina of Tunis stared blithely at the CCTV and cellphone video scenes of carnage that had been flitting across the cafe's television screen all day. They refocused their interest only when two Europeans also paused before the screen.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/03/terror-attacks-system-malfunction-warning-160324121455096.html

(Istituto fondamentale - Greece) Greece and the passing of the nation state (Iason Athanasiadis, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/07/greece-passing-nation-state-150704064649164.html