Is Greece Becoming the New Borderland Between East and West? With Sean Matthews
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. How could Greece's Byzantine and Ottoman past shape its future? On today's episode, journalist and author Sean Matthews joins us to examine Greece's unique position as a Christian Orthodox state on the edge of of the Islamic world.
Across centuries it has served as a political and cultural crossroads, and now its position between Europe and the Near East is becoming ever more significant in today's fraught geopolitical context. Let's join our host, Helen Carr, now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squares. I'm Helen Carr and our guest today is Sean Matthews. Sean is a Greek-American journalist who has over the course of his career covered the Middle East as a correspondent with the Middle East Eye.
Sean has also written for The Economist and AI Monitor, amongst others. The New Byzantines, The Rise of Greece and the Return of the Near East is his first book. Welcome to Intelligence Squared Sean. Thank you for having me on, Helen. It's a pleasure to be here.
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