Andreja Mesaric

Olga Demetriou’s work explores the relationship between state power and the Muslims of Western Thrace, Greece’s border region with Turkey. It traces the process of minoritization of the region’s Muslim population by observing changing government policies and exploring how they interact with people’s lives. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in and around the town of Komotini, the book’s primary focus lies in how these developments shape(d) people’s everyday lived experience.