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It’s not easy being a street photographer at a time when everybody walks around with a (phone) camera. Not only does it make your subjects – i.e. random people – ...

What kind of person is Michalis Kalopaidis? Well, take for instance the fact that he cooks – not professionally, just as a hobby. Nothing strange about that, lots of people do ...

If she can do it, any woman can do it. That’s the message of Cypriot downhill biker Savvina Koulle, who has used a combination of physical strength, fitness, technical ...

It’s the kind of question those old Raj colonels must’ve asked themselves when they first went to India: why is everyone eating chili – which of course makes you ...

We’re at the Bedrock Café in Ayia Napa, surrounded by Flintstones merch and plastic dinosaurs – but Aeropryme isn’t happy with his coffee. “I wanted an iced coffee with ...

They live in the village of Ayia Triada, halfway up the Karpasia peninsula with its sleepy roads set amid thickets of pine, palm and olive – though also in the pages ...

There is more to a cup of Cyprus coffee than its strong, bitter taste. In a new book on the matter, Aspasia Papadima unfolds the secrets of the island’s ...

The blue door is unmarked, its glass panel stealing a glimpse into a dishevelled interior. The door is locked so I wait, surrounded by the quiet cobbled streets of old ...

Andreas Andreou is quite young – he turns 34 this month – but he’s already been on TV several times, plus radio and print media: CyBC, Sigma, 24 Ores on Alpha, interviews with ‘...

A quiet Sunday morning, a small three-star hotel in Yermasoyia on the ‘wrong’, suburban side of the highway. A modest swimming pool, an importunate cat that jumps on our table – ...

I’m afraid we have no answer to explain what happened in Peru last August, at the World Athletics U20 Championships. That was the event where 19-year-old Iosif Kesidis won ...

‘This is all legal, right?’ I ask Jenna (aka Miss Jenna Linn), sitting at Bean Bar in central Nicosia where her appearance has already drawn an appraising, not entirely approving ...

Antonis Koupparis shows me videos on his phone. The clips are mostly CCTV footage, plus videos he shot himself: a low-res litany of crime and disorder in the walled city ...

On my way to the Oleander Institute – actually to Myrsini’s studio in old Nicosia; the institute has no physical office – I spot a grey-haired couple in their golden years ...

Everywhere in the world, two to three babies out of every 1,000 live births will be born with cerebral palsy, described by the World Health Organisation as a complex motor disorder ...

A phone alarm pings, and Adonis Florides gets up. Excuse me, he says briskly, there’s “something I have to do”. I wonder if he needs to take some pill ...

It’s quite an emotional moment, on a Friday evening at Hoi Polloi a few minutes north of the checkpoint. Gifts are brought, as to a visiting dignitary: a Pink ...

Sometimes a New Year really is a new year. “It’s a new thing for us,” says Aziz Altaany. “It’s a new thing. We lived 50 years with the same ...

For a while, this article on Swami Jyothirmayah – and the three-day course he conducted at the Indian High Commission in Nicosia a couple of weeks ago – was lacking only one ...

There are times, admits George Rotos, when he’ll run into someone he knows and pretend not to see them – not because he doesn’t want to talk to them ...

They’ve got 20.6k followers on Instagram. They’re identical twins and they’ve got a contagious passion for food. Katerina and Georgia Fella, known as The Fella Twins, have ...

The little boy doesn’t hesitate once. He’s only 10 years old – the video was shot in Kakopetria in 2015 – but the piece of charcoal flies across the paper, adding lines ...

“The fact that you’re essentially dealing with people that are facing your own trauma or the trauma that your parents experienced means that every day, it’s like I’...

Furen is the name of the place – situated right on Eleftheria Square, the most prominent location in all Nicosia – offering “a real taste of Lebanon”. But which Lebanon? The war-torn ...