
The Column I Owe Navkiran Khalra
Three years ago I wrote that memory work was a fading craft. A daughter's search for her father in Punjab shows me how badly I misread the shape of grief.

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Migration, Refugee Integration, European Identity, Society, Greek-Turkish Relations
The Column I Owe Navkiran Khalra
Listen to Elias Papadopoulos's latest column.
Grew up in Athens watching his country become Europe's primary migration entry point. Speaks Arabic and Turkish — unusual for a Greek journalist — because he decided early on that you cannot report on migration without talking to the people who migrate.
6 articles · ~38 min total reading

Three years ago I wrote that memory work was a fading craft. A daughter's search for her father in Punjab shows me how badly I misread the shape of grief.

Nearly 4.5 million British visitors will fly into Türkiye this year. A few hundred kilometres south, the people I follow still cannot board a bus.

Five countries are boycotting a song contest. In a Thessaloniki kitchen, a Syrian teenager wonders which Europe he was taught to love.