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Helena Drysdale

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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

Photo of a cleric in ornate robes performing a ritual with a censer outdoors, while another person and a cameraman stand nearby.

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Progress and modernity

End of Byzantium

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

Helena Drysdale

Photo of a group of people around a campfire in a frosty rural landscape at sunrise or sunset with smoke rising in the background.

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Demography 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