
The Boy Who Learned Greek From Eurovision: On Boycotts, Belonging, and Borrowed Anthems
Five countries are boycotting a song contest. In a Thessaloniki kitchen, a Syrian teenager wonders which Europe he was taught to love.

European Bureau
Migration, Refugee Integration, European Identity, Society, Greek-Turkish Relations
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.
4 articles · ~26 min total reading

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

As geopolitical crises multiply and borders harden, I spent three weeks documenting what happens when people fall through every legal crack.

As Germany considers emergency borrowing amid economic strain, the migrants who rebuilt their lives there watch the political winds with familiar wariness.

After two Jewish men are stabbed in north London, I trace the invisible borders that now divide European cities — and the communities learning to live with dread.