“Orientalising” Greece in the international press and how we’re missing the coming threat.

Yiannis Βaboulias
Sep 5, 2018 · 6 min read

Since I started covering Greece from the ground in autumn 2014, the country’s image in the international media has gone through several phases. While a worthwhile task that perhaps should be undertaken at some point, analysing the whole timeline would take too long and would derail from the point of this post.

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Yiannis Βaboulias

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Writer on Greece, Europe, the far right and the refugee crisis. Might also be seen banging on about Sci-Fi and the rest.

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