Alexander Clapp

Alexander Clapp is a journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee based in Athens. He has written about the Balkans and Eastern Europe for New Left Review, among other journals. In the LRB he has reported on the Golden Dawn, Syriza, and Montenegro’s politicians and criminal cartels. His first book, Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish is published by John Murray in the UK and Little, Brown in the US.

Letter

Golden Dawn

4 December 2014

Tim Salmon misreads my point about the Mani: it is nonconformist not in itself but compared to other regions of Greece (Letters, 5 February). And while other Greeks may boast about being ‘the fiercest opponents of the Turks’, Maniot claims are substantiated by actual events: the region was independent under Ottoman rule. This means something to a group as historically conscious as Golden Dawn.But...
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