MARIANNA KAKAOUNAKI

A Greek archaeologist’s dig into the Elgin archive

It was an August morning in 2014 when Greek archaeologist Tatiana Poulou walked across the gardens to the entrance of Broomhall House, the family seat of the earls of Elgin in Scotland.

Osama’s odyssey from Gaza, to Patissia, to Belgium

On the night of January 16, 12-year-old Osama from Palestine couldn’t sleep. Early the next day he would travel from Athens to Belgium to meet his big brother.

20.01.2024 / 16:59

The disappearance of Athens’ Commercial Triangle

The Commercial Triangle of Athens is defined as the central area of the Municipality of Athens, flanked by Stadiou, Mitropoleos and Athinas streets, with the vertices of the imaginary “triangle” being Syntagma, Monastiraki and Omonia squares.

30.10.2023 / 12:44

The conman who attempted to buy a bank

Last Sunday, Kathimerini revealed that the individual posing as a Jewish-American multibillionaire named David Sassoon is not who he claims to be. He has been convicted of criminal offenses abroad and, according to official documents, his real name is Khalid El Sheriff and he is a Sudanese national. Sassoon arrived in […]

23.10.2023 / 13:18

The five-act con of ‘David Sassoon’

Posing as a multimillionaire, David Sassoon managed to host lavish receptions for ambassadors in Athens while having been repeatedly imprisoned in the United States and the United Kingdom for multiple criminal offenses. Kathimerini presents his story, which reads like a screenplay for a dramatic thriller.

03.09.2023 / 21:00

Marriage equality to be enshrined

A draft bill to be submitted to Parliament in the coming months will extend equal marriage and adoption rights to same-sex couples, Kathimerini understands.

31.05.2023 / 10:30

Pollsters looking for answers

A week before Greece’s May 21 general election, communications consultant Stavros Kontaxis carried out an experiment. Using ChatGPT he designed a model for a poll of polls, inputting all the available survey results to see what kind of conclusion it would yield

11.04.2023 / 10:34

A Turk searching for the family of a Greek woman buried beneath his house

It was discovered in the summer of 2017: a marble slab with an inscription in Greek, embedded in the concrete floor, beneath the old tiles being replaced by two cousins in their grandparents’ home in Karacakoy, northwest of Istanbul.

26.03.2023 / 17:04

‘Why are you so hell-bent on becoming Greek?’

Lale Alatli fell in love with Greece through rebetiko music. She listened to it with her Greek fellow students while they were studying in Italy.

20.03.2023 / 12:20

A mysterious sect that came and swiftly left

A group of Danish citizens that settled for a while in a village outside Thessaloniki in northern Greece apparently belonged to a secretive Christian sect that is now accused of mistreating its followers, including by subjecting children and adults alike to corporal punishment.

08.02.2023 / 21:31

Greece’s allies in fight for Parthenon Marbles

“We learn to pick our fights in multilateral diplomacy, and [the return of the Parthenon Sculptures] was worth fighting for,” sums up one of Greece’s unexpected allies. Egyptian diplomat Maged Mosleh is speaking for the first time about the battle fought – and won – by Greece at the UNESCO Intergovernmental

20.01.2023 / 16:12

Thousands of refugees back out in the cold

It wasn’t too cold the first night Marie spent on the streets of downtown Athens even though it was already early December. She had a small school bag with some milk, biscuits, diapers and baby wipes.

18.12.2022 / 14:50

New law sparks Golden Visa rush

After six years of arranging viewings on an almost daily basis for fellow Chinese nationals coming to Greece in search of good property deals, Peter Chang had to hang up his realtor’s hat three years ago, when the pandemic brought business to a halt.

20.11.2022 / 21:05

Digital nomads with all the bells and whistles

The first companies organizing the stays of people who choose to live in Greece for a few months or years, working remotely, have appeared.

17.11.2022 / 11:56

Turkey in the dock over US attack on protesters

On the last day of October, lawyer Andreas Akaras kept refreshing the United States Supreme Court website trying to confirm the information he had been hearing since that morning: that the ruling he had been waiting for had been published. Indeed, the long-awaited ruling had been published online that afternoon.