(...) Set sail for the Mediterranean will begin a long, slow, gradual, arduous, unpredictable return home. Which it is absent for too long. Where we have to find our rooms, lights, objects, sounds with which we were brought up, the lack of which [...]
The video-promo intro to the uncut interviews of the Meetings in Athens conducted by Simone Perotti. The faces and words of the greek thoughts, in the places and spaces of Athens and aboard Mediterranea. A man makes a question, the Greek intellectual community answeres, [...]
(by Simone Perotti) You don’t do things, you do them again. And when they are done, you have already imagined them, otherwise they will never materialise. Which is exactly what happened one day exactly two years ago. One of those days when everything came true, [...]
(by Simone Perotti) If you don’t know anything about a well-informed foreign correspondent who is passionate about his work, and who has for decades been on the Mediterranean scene interviewing an array of leaders, and keeps a watchful eye on the more or [...]
(by Simone Perotti) “We’ve got to work out a way to live without money, at least a little money as possible. Enough is enough”. I look up, and look at him. Sorry, what was that? “That’s right. It’s time to put an [...]
(by Simone Perotti) Petros Markaris was born in Istanbul from a family of Armenian origin whose chosen language was that of the pilgrims, and thus linguistically, Greek; he studied in Germany, but later came to live in Athens, where we meet at the [...]
(by Simone Perotti) Kostas Koutsourelis is a handsome man, with a good build, wearing a white shirt and beige trousers. He doesn’t look like a poet, not as we normally think of them, but more like a self-assured financial director of some company [...]
(by Simone Perotti) “What is the Mediterranean…”. Christos Hadziiosif, is a meditative, well-groomed, person who dresses with sober elegance. His courtesy and gentleness give him the air of a gentleman from another era. He is indeed a sensitive and cultured man, a scholar, [...]
(by Simone Perotti) Nanos Valaoritis is an elderly gentleman of 93 who has lived, to say the least, intensely. He welcomes us to his home in the elegant suburb of Kolonaki, in the city centre, at just a stone’s throw from Sintagma Square. [...]
Some meetings you try to arrange, but it is not always easy, because the Mediterranea is in Athens and the person we want to meet is abroad, away from Greece. Prof. Nikos G. Moschonas, Director Emeritus of the Byzantine Research Institute of [...]
