Alex Sakalis was a former editor of openDemocracy’s Can Europe Make It? project. He now works as a freelance writer and teacher. He tweets @alexsakalis.
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Biography of an island: multifaceted Sicily
“All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination,” wrote the novelist Leonardo Sciascia. Indeed, the island has always emanated a slightly mythical air, neither quite real, nor quite imaginary, like a kind of Mediterranean Shangri-La.
July 28, 2021
