Helena Drysdale

Freelance

Helena Drysdale is the author of several books, including Mother Tongues: Travels through Tribal Europe, and Strangerland: A Family at War.

Written by Helena Drysdale

essayProgress and modernity

End of Byzantium

Besieged by a majority Turkish culture, Istanbul’s Ecumenical Patriarch Barthomelew I attempts a cosmopolitan revival

Helena Drysdale

essayDemography and migration

Night vigil in Thrace

Despite its turmoil, ever more people are risking their lives to enter Greece. Welcome to Europe’s most porous border

Helena Drysdale