Yanis Varoufakis
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
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So they were part of the colonial, you know, the white settlers of colonial Egypt.
And, you know, my grandmother...
to whom I have devoted a chapter in my latest book, she was totally caught up between two worlds.
The European expat community, who were effectively the ruling class of Egypt and who were having a wonderful time, you know, traveling first class to the various wonderful parts of Egypt and living a life of grandeur with servants and all that.
But at the same time, I discovered more recently, she was a member, a paid up member of the Egyptian Feminist Union.
working with Egyptian women against the expat community, against their employers, organizing strikes in textile factories and so on.
And that was always a sort of civil war happening within the family.
And she raised my dad as a French Enlightenment figure.
So, you know...
Since he was five, he had to listen to stories about Voltaire, about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, about Montesquieu, about all that.
And, you know, so he grew up as a French Enlightenment person in higher Egypt within a Greek community.
So it's just complete madness.
Well, the Greek-Egyptian community was quite multifaceted.
I mean, originally, it harks back to the Hellenistic era, to the Greek Macedonians who were there since Alexander the Great.
Then, different waves of Greeks arrived.
A significant wave arrived after 1922 when the Greeks lost to the Turks in Asia Minor, and a lot of them
sort of traveled all over, you know, migrated, a lot of them to Egypt.
But my grandfather, that is my father's father, yes, he was quite different in the sense that he was a bit of a rascal who had been given the tar and feathers treatment by his father on a Dodecanesian island for having been sent to Los Angeles to study law.
He didn't study anything because he had too much of a fun time there.
And he came back pretending that he had graduated.
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