Author: Georgio Konstandi
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‘I’m terrified of what might come next’: an interview with Middle East academic and ‘the fire these times’ host, Joey Ayoub
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains detailed discussion of physical violence, murder, maiming, and warfare INTERVIEW As scenes of Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians continues to fill our newsfeeds, long-time Palestinian rights activists are pushing for the latest wave of media attention to produce humanitarian results. Politika News (virtually) sat down with…
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Cyprus’ Peace Generation launch latest campaign for reunification: an interview with ‘Hade’
Support us on Patreon. VIDEO As Cyprus looks to the light at the end of a long COVID tunnel, its Peace Generation is eyeing up the chance to reset the political clock. 47 years ago, the island was partitioned and communities, who for centuries had co-habited peacefully, have since been forced to live apart. Now,…
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Remembering the Paris Commune and its unsung anarchist heroine, Louise Michel: an interview with historian, Naomi Clifford
Support Politika News on Patreon. INTERVIEW As 2021 commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, historian Naomi Clifford turns her investigative eye to the life of an unsung anarchist heroine from France’s Haute-Marne: Louise Michel. Following her recent lecture on Michel (in collaboration with Tate South Lambeth Library) Naomi managed to pluck time out…
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Poland’s likely withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, and violence against women: an interview with Gals4Gals Łódź
PODCAST CN: this podcast episode contains discussion of homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. As Poland’s government comes one step closer to achieving its stated goal of withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, Politika News speaks to Gals4Gals Łódź. Last year, the feminist movement organised the city’s largest protest since the hunger demonstrations of 1981, against the government’s…
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Continuities between Ottoman and Habsburg Bosnia: an interview with scholar, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
INTERVIEW Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular received her Ph.D. from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University specialising in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. Her research focuses on the history of the Ottoman Empire and Southeast Europe. Presently, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular is working on a book manuscript titled ‘Afterlife of Empire’ that explores Ottoman continuities…
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Greek ethnic nationalism and the Yugoslav Wars: an interview with award-winning journalist and author, Takis Michas
PODCAST CN: this podcast episode contains discussion of genocide and xenophobia Before 8,372 Muslim men and boys were murdered in the Srebrenica genocide of July 1995, it was the blue-white Hellenic flag that was raised alongside the Serbian ensign in the defeated Muslim enclave. No Greek writer has done more to uncover the dark and…
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Bottom-up activism, clerical intolerance and searching for hope: an interview with LGBTQ+ Diaspora Cypriots
VIDEO Two years after a Parikiaki survey revealed that less than half of LGBTQ+ Cypriots in the UK had come out to their family, Politika News sat down (virtually) with the diaspora’s LGBTQ+ group to talk about the homophobia and transphobia that persist in the community today. Religious dogma, bottom-up activism, the role of social…
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Seeking justice for Bosnia’s women: an interview with scholar, Aida Hozić
CN: this article contains discussion of sexual violence and genocide INTERVIEW A quarter of a century after the Dayton Accords were signed, the women of Bosnia are still living with the aftermath of the terrors of war. Bosnian scholars, activists and artists continue to campaign for the experiences of Bosnian women during the war of…
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‘Save our rivers, or they will run dry’: international hydrologists release their latest warning to unresponsive governments
INTERVIEW Dr. Margaret Shanafield from Flinders University (Adelaide, New South Wales, Australia) has led a new report on the state of non-perennial (seasonal, intermittent) rivers and streams that have been built on by successive governments in arid regions such as Australia and parts of rural USA. The report issues a stark warning against the continuing…
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Chetnik collaboration and acts of genocide in the former Yugoslavia: an interview with Balkans scholar, Stevan Bozanich
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of genocide INTERVIEW Stevan Bozanich is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia). His research focuses on, among other things, paramilitary violence and far-right nationalism in the former Yugoslavia. Bozanich’s wide range of published works range from the sculpture of nationalism in fin-de-siècle…
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