Alexander Kazamias

Biographic Data

ID1192238
NAMEAlexander Kazamias
GIVEN NAMESAlexander
FAMILY NAMEKazamias
SIGNATUREKAZAMIAS A
AFFILIATIONSCoventry University
ORCID0000-0003-0102-9174
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Antiquity as a Trophy: Classical Heritage and Anticommunism in Cold War Greece

    Alexander KazamiasARTICLEJournal of War and Culture Studies2026References: 12

    This article examines how modern Greece drew on its ancient heritage to speak about the Cold War and the Greek Civil War in 1944–74. It shows how classical Hellenism was used by the official anti-communist discourse of Ethnikofrosyni to justify the fight against domestic and international communism. It argues that war was verbally, visually, and spatially constructed as an idealized notion of heroic and spiritual distinction by Western bearers of…

  • Dependence and transposition: Orientalist representations of the Arabs in modern Greek culture

    Alexander KazamiasARTICLEJournal of Greek Media & Culture2022

    This article analyses Greek orientalism towards the Arabs from the end of the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. It examines an extensive body of texts, beginning with Adamantios Korais’ rallying call for Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt and ending with the post-Suez attacks on Nasser’s anti-colonial policies by leading post-war Greek writers. The analysis approaches the representations of the Arabs as a branch of a wider Greek orientalist di…

  • The Visual Politics of Fear: Anti-Communist Imagery in Postwar Greece

    Open AccessAlexander KazamiasARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2022Cited by: 1References: 2

    From the mid-1940s to the fall of the Colonels’ Dictatorship in 1974, Greek society was defined by an official anti-communist discourse that divided it into ‘nationally-minded’ Ethnikofron citizens and left-wing ‘enemies of the nation’. The article shows how this power discourse deployed visual media to construct an emotional regime of fear around communism during and after the Greek Civil War. It uncovers a large volume of propaganda imagery, in…

  • Another Colonial History: How Cosmopolitan Was Cavafy's Contemporary Alexandria

    Alexander KazamiasARTICLEboundary 22021References: 19

    This essay provides an alternative reading of modern Alexandria's social and cultural history as a basis for a better contextualization of Cavafy's poetry. It revisits the watershed year 1882, which marks the city's destruction after its bombardment by the British fleet, using new evidence from a little-known diary by the nineteen-year-old Cavafy. It then examines the overlooked context of Alexandria's late Ottoman cosmopolitanism and shows its d…

  • Enlightenment and Revolution: The Making of Modern Greece, by Paschalis M. Kitromilides

    Open AccessAlexander KazamiasARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    ‘Greek Enlightenment’ is the name given to the intellectual current which introduced the ideas of the north European Enlightenment across much of the Balkans from the middle of the eighteenth century to the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s. In recent decades, this movement has attracted the attention of prominent Greek scholars, such as the literary critic K.Th. Dimaras, the historian Alkis Angellou and the philosopher Panayiotis Kondylis, …

  • Cromer’s Assault on ‘Internationalism’: British Colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882–1907

    Alexander KazamiasCHAPTERLong 1890s in Egypt2014

    Between the British invasion of 1882 and the emergence of the first nationalist parties in 1907, Egypt’s foreign resident communities were among the country’s most influential social groups. This chapter focuses on the role of Egypt’s largest and possibly most powerful foreign resident community, the Greeks, with particular emphasis on their relationship to the British occupation during Lord Cromer’s term as proconsul from 1883 to 1907.

  • The ‘Anger Revolutions’ in the Middle East: An answer to decades of failed reform

    Alexander KazamiasARTICLEJournal of Balkan and Near…2011

    Two weeks after the overthrow of Tunisia’s autocratic ruler, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, and four days after the outbreak of a mass uprising in Egypt, US president Barack Obama appeared on the world television screens to call for the urgent need of reform. “We ’ve also been clear that there must be reform – political, social and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people”, he said. One month later, during which the Egyptian pe…

  • The quest for modernization in Greek foreign policy and its limitations

    Alexander KazamiasARTICLEMediterranean Politics1997Cited by: 3References: 2

    The rise of Kostas Simitis and his ‘modernizers’ faction to the leadership of PASOK in January 1996 brought certain changes to Greece's foreign policy. Contrary to the widespread belief that Simitis's impact has steered Greece away from its nationalist foreign policy to a modernist/Europeanist direction, this article argues that such conclusions are premature and simplistic. Instead, it suggests an alternative interpretation whereby Simitis's for…