Roger Cohen

Right after the conclusion of the 12th Athens Democracy Forum, Kathimerini and the Delphi Economic Forum co-hosted a discussion on the upcoming US presidential elections.

Prominent journalists and scholars discussed current events in the Middle East during the "The Middle East Powder Keg" session at the 12th Athens Democracy Forum on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is confident that Greece will be able to deal with Turkey's increasingly aggressive behavior in the Aegean and off the coast of Cyprus thanks to its "strong" alliances and foreign policy, while he also feels that the Turkish operation in Syria risks "adding another source of instability in an already unstable part of the world."

Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, president, international of The New York Times Company, speaks at an event at the Hilton Athens on Tuesday night marking the 20th anniversary of the newspaper's partnership with Kathimerini - an alliance, Dunbar-Johnson noted, 'based on shared values.' As part of the event, which was also addressed by Kathimerini owner Themis Alafouzos, Dunbar-Johnson and NYT columnist R

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch (center), participates in a discussion panel with Roger Cohen of the New York Times (left) and European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos on Thursday during the Athens Democracy Forum, organized by the NYT, the United Nations Democracy Fund, the City of Athens and Kathimerini.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch (center), participates in a discussion panel with Roger Cohen of the New York Times (left) and European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos on Thursday during the Athens Democracy Forum, organized by the NYT, the United Nations Democracy Fund, the City of Athens and Kathimerini.

A cinema in Sarajevo was too small to hold all would-be viewers on Sunday of "The Diplomat", a documentary by the American director David Holbrooke about the life of his US diplomat father.

Holbrooke is seen as the mastermind behind the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the four-year war in Bosnia.

Since the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC on Sept. 11, 2001, I have seen countless discussions in the West on a peculiar question: "Why do they hate us?" The "they" here refers to the "extremists," a term that was popularized in the same era, of the Muslim world, and the "us" referred to both the U.S. and "the West" in general.