Assignments, 1988–today

Armenia — Spitak and Leninakan

ERT. By military C-130 via Tbilisi, accompanying men of EMAK on their first mission abroad.

Romania — the fall of Ceaușescu

ERT. In Bucharest in December, a few months after the Berlin Wall came down.

Cameroon — the Greek community

ERT. In December, with the photographer Giannis Stergiou, at the invitation of the Greek community.

Iraq — the Gulf war

ERT and SKAI 100.4 FM. The Gulf war, January to March — the first of three assignments to Iraq.

Slovenia — the "Ten-Day War"

SKAI 100.4 FM. In Belgrade from March, and in Slovenia in June — the beginning of Yugoslavia's dissolution.

Albania — the first multiparty elections

ERT and SKAI 100.4 FM. The beginning of a coverage that lasted thirty-four years, down to the elections of 2025.

Turkey — Istanbul, Erzincan, Nicomedia

SKAI 100.4 FM and Antenna. The arson attack on a Greek coach in Istanbul in April 1991, and the two devastating earthquakes.

Croatia — Krajina and Vukovar

SKAI 100.4 FM. Knin in April, Osijek and Vukovar in November, after the city fell.

Moscow — the coup against Gorbachev

SKAI 100.4 FM. In Moscow for the attempted coup of 19 August against Mikhail Gorbachev.

United States — three months at CNN

ERT. Three months at CNN headquarters, in a group of ten journalists drawn from around the world.

Bosnia — the siege of Sarajevo

ERT, then SKAI and Antenna. He entered the besieged city in July 1992 and returned until the war ended; his first book came out of the same experience.

Egypt — the Cairo earthquake

SKAI 100.4 FM. The earthquake of 12 October 1992 — the first of three assignments to Egypt.

India — the Maharashtra earthquake

SKAI TV. Overland from New Delhi to Maharashtra, with the cameraman Kostas Papadopoulos and the sound recordist Tasos Dimopoulos.

Mexico — the Chiapas uprising

SKAI TV. At New Year 1994, in Chiapas, for the "Zapatista" uprising against the Mexican government and the signing of NAFTA.

Australia — the bushfires

SKAI TV. In January, travelling on from Mexico.

Rwanda — in the shadow of the genocide

Antenna. The summer of 1994.

Argentina & Chile — "The Greeks of Latin America"

Antenna. In October, at the invitation of the Greek communities, on the life of the diaspora in the two countries.

Odessa — "The Hellenism of Odessa"

Antenna. With his colleague Korina Xypolitidou, on the occasion of the Foundation of the Hellenic World opening in the city.

Egypt — the Siwa oasis

Antenna. In January, at Siwa — Liana Souvaltzi's announcement about the tomb of Alexander the Great, and its official refutation.

Aigio — the earthquake

One of the devastating earthquakes he covered — this time inside Greece.

▸ Earthquake at Aigio (1995)

Imia — on the brink of war

Antenna. At Imia in January 1996, and again thirty years later, for OPEN TV.

Egypt — the attack on the Greek tourists

Antenna. The attack of 18 April 1996, in which eighteen Greek tourists were killed — the third and last of his assignments to Egypt.

Cyprus — the occupied north

Antenna. Repeated assignments to the occupied north; the occasion was the deaths of Tasos Isaak and Solomos Solomou in August 1996.

The Aegean — the islanders of the barren line

Antenna. The documentary «Οι ακρίτες του Αιγαίου» after the Imia crisis, and the reports from the frontier islands.

Iraq — Baghdad before the war

Antenna. Kofi Annan's negotiations with Saddam Hussein over access for international observers to the Iraqi arsenal.

Cyprus — the documentary "ELDYK 1974"

Antenna. The testimony of ELDYK's soldiers about the battles of 1974 — from his television series "On the Road".

Kenya — the Öcalan affair

Antenna. On assignment in Nairobi, February 1999.

Serbia — the NATO bombing

Antenna. From Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Niš.

Skopje — the clashes at Tetovo

Antenna. In March 2001, and again in 2004.

Genoa — the demonstrations at the G8 summit

Antenna. In July, with the cameraman Kostas Liliabtis — among the last of his big foreign assignments.

Afghanistan — the war in the desert

Antenna. With the Northern Alliance, from September to November.

Iraq — the fall of Baghdad

Antenna. The third and last of his assignments to Iraq.

Barcelona — the day after the Olympics

Antenna. A few months before the Athens Games — Barcelona's Olympic venues, twelve years on.

Turkey — the two documentaries

Antenna and ERT. "Turkey at the Critical Crossroads", when its European prospect was still a geopolitical given; and "Smyrna, 85 Years after the Asia Minor Catastrophe".

Syria & Lebanon — "Hellenism in the Middle East"

In search of the traces of Hellenism — with the testimony of the physician Angelos Kioseoglou.

Southern Italy — "The Greeks of Southern Italy"

The history, culture and dialect of the Greek-speaking communities of Southern Italy — with the testimony of Cosimino Surdo.

Northern Epirus, 65 Years after the Albanian Epic

Antenna. The declining course of Hellenism in the villages of Northern Epirus.

Kosovo — the Orthodox monasteries

Antenna and ERT. Two assignments before the declaration of independence.

Syria — twenty-three years on

In Syria after the fall of the Assad regime — with the same cameraman who was with him in Afghanistan, twenty-three years earlier.

Lucerne — the US–Iran talks

OPEN. On assignment at the Bürgenstock, 18–22 June 2026, with the press kept outside the hotel.

Porto Germeno — the day after the fire

OPEN. The report on the devastating aftermath of the fire, for the news bulletin.

▸ Porto Germeno, the day after the devastating fire