GREECE, THE CRADLE OF EASTERN CIVILIZATION (OR IS IT THE WEST?)
Sean Matthews is a Greek American journalist based in Athens. On the occasion of his book, "The New Byzantines" he talked to Unapologetic host Ashfaaq Carim about the question if Greeks belong to the West or to the East. But a few words of caution are in order. Matthews may be half Greek, but obviously he's a fairly recent arrival. Only in the final part of the interview it becomes clear that his political sympathies live on the Left side of the aisle, carrying a shipload of chips on his shoulder that come with the territory. As such, he is not a neutral observer of history. But in the first two parts of the interview he gets away with it. It's so fascinating, because this is a story of empire that is not understood at all in the era of the secular, national state and arrested imagination.
