Projects

Here is a brief list of projects I enjoyed participating in during the past years.

  1. The Teenage Refugee’s Post-Pandemic Survival Guide (Balkan Insight)

You are one of thousands of teenage asylum-seekers in Greece, growing up in the shadow of coronavirus. These are your options.

For over a year, as part of BIRN's Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence (now named Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence), I followed unaccompanied minors in Greece.

I found them detained for months "for their safety". Picking strawberries in the fields. Fleeing shelters to sleep on the streets. And all over again.

This is their story, available also in Greek here.

The Teenage Refugee’s Post-Pandemic Survival Guide
You are one of thousands of teenage asylum-seekers in Greece, growing up in the shadow of coronavirus. These are your options.
Balkan InsightStavros Malichudis

The story was edited by the great Neil Arun, the best editor a reporter could ever have. Following publication, we brought the story to its true protagonists to test their reactions.

  1. Moria - After the Fire (BBC)

In this Lighthouse Reports project, we spent a year following the lives of survivors of a blaze that destroyed Moria, the EU's largest refugee camp, as they negotiated the search for safety and stability some migrants call “the game.”

BBC Radio 4 - Crossing Continents, Moria - After the Fire
Stories from people who survived the fire in the Greek refugee camp a year ago.
BBC

We worked on this together with Daniel Howden, Maria Margaronis, and Katy Fallon. Our podcast first aired on BBC Radio 4 on 2 September 2021.

  1. The Revolving Door podcast series (iMEdD)

In this investigative podcast series, together with my long-time colleague (and boss at Solomon!) Iliana Papangeli, we document the complex realities of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers as they navigate the various paths that the revolving door of migration takes them on.

With the support of iMEdD, we traveled across Greece and beyond to research migration policies, meet the children, and follow up on their stories - and we hope to present the series' first episodes in 2024.

  1. Xenophobic Europe: Racist Policy towards Refugees, Georgios Tsiakalos, Stavros Malichudis, and Iliana Papangeli (Bloomsbury)

Georgios Tsiakalos' analytical thought, and his commitment to safeguarding human rights, are deeply inspiring.

In 2021, a lengthy, insightful interview the Emeritus Professor of Pedagogy gave to me and Iliana about the EU's management of migration was included in an anthology titled Education, Equality and Justice in the New Normal: Global Responses to the Pandemic.

The book, by Bloomsbury Academic, includes chapters by Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, and Henry A. Giroux and a Foreword by Antonia Darder.

Education, Equality and Justice in the New Normal
Written by leading scholars and activists from Brazil, Chile, Greece, Italy, Malta, the UK, and the USA, this book shows how vitally important education is in a…
BloomsburySarah J. Maas

In an earlier version of the interview, Tsiakalos highlights how a racist policy is being implemented in Europe today. The interview is available in Greek and in English at Solomon.

  1. “Impunity in Europe: the uninvestigated murder of Greek journalist Sokratis Giolias”

In 2023, a Safer World for the Truth, a collaborative initiative of Free Press Unlimited, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Reporters without Borders, published an investigation on the -unsolved- killing of Greek journalist Socrates Gkiolias.

The report found crucial omissions, delays, and tunnel vision in the official investigation into the murder. Together with Greek journalist Daphne Tolis, I was responsible for the research of the project, which is also available in Greek here.