Theo Panayides

Despite earthquakes, trainwrecks, inflation and a pandemic, political leaderships in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus remain basically unchanged Kyriakos Mitsotakis triumphed in the first round of the Greek elections on May 21, ...

We asked a selection of people on the streets of Nicosia to recall the last time when they felt happy. Responses ranged from humorous to melancholy, to unexpectedly profound.

But who is Cyprus’ Pan Dragomir? THEO PANAYIDES finds an exuberant and business-like comedian on a roll after daring to do something Pan Dragomir is having a moment – but who ...

In a micro-fiction writer, THEO PANAYIDES finds a restless soul focusing on the details others miss who, in turn finds herself at a very interesting age Open the book – I ...

In a man fighting stereotypes, and over a plate of Pakistani kebabs, THEO PANAYIDES finds a hard worker happy to have made Cyprus his home The first time I visit ...

Top spot at the Eurovision has always eluded Cyprus, so what are we doing wrong? As records go, it’s an unwanted one. Cyprus has now participated 39 times in the ...

As the world enters a ‘new age’ THEO PANAYIDES meets a woman who has helped the police locate missing people, predicted what will happen for the new government and views ...

In a travelling musician, THEO PANAYIDES finds a combination of talent and sensitivity who lets the drama of his craft bring him closer to the great composers Two minutes into ...

In the head of the jury of Cyprus Film Days THEO PANAYIDES meets a dynamic woman who grew up surrounded by art and sees herself as free, despite it being ...

Great films but little local content as annual festival returns says Preston Wilder Cyprus Film Days (CFD) is back, and the best way to approach it is voraciously. Get a €30 ...

In a woman who burrows into strangers’ subconscious, THEO PANAYIDES finds a practitioner who likes calm, a positive mindset coach who has also been through some pretty bad times herself ...

With massive numbers of asylum seekers from the continent, Cyprus is undergoing a demographic change but the history of Africans on the island goes back much further The arrival of ...

In beatboxer Beardyman, THEO PANAYIDES finds a neurodivergent, restless and impulsive musician using technology to augment his human reality Greenland, notoriously, is not very green – and it must be said, ...

In a brilliant young woman mired in hypocrisy, THEO PANAYIDES finds someone used to ‘bursting bubbles’ in her quest for knowledge, and the course of the island’s national problem ...

In an exile, a poet who runs a coffee shop, THEO PANAYIDES meets a man who found God in Turkey as a teen and tried to do the right thing ...

Not all politicians are the same, finds THEO PANAYIDES after meeting the man given a baptism of fire after the financial meltdown of 2013. He finds an outward looking, low-key former ...

From picking salad in the garden growing up in France to overseeing the 10 restaurants in the island’s upcoming casino resort, one man, a dynamic doer, has bounced around the ...

Covid does not explain more people dying each year The week-by-week mortality figures – all-cause deaths – supplied to Eurostat for 2022 are now complete, though it’s important to note that the ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets an actress who’s in people’s living rooms every night, a woman who was quiet and not very brave as a child but grew up into ...

Aglandjia municipality wanted to penalise woman who didn’t throw out enough trash By Theo Panayides Aglandjia municipality’s pace-setting ‘Pay as you throw’ scheme is the future, due to ...

In a citizen journalist broadcasting controversial political views on Ukraine from the streets of Cyprus, THEO PANAYIDES finds a man who misses the right to disagree, keen on stressing the ...

With a boom in sales for Valentine’s Day, you would imagine it is a welcome time of year for a high-tech flower grower. But THEO PANAYIDES meets a man ...

Footage from last night’s electoral victory, and the proclamation of Nikos Christodoulides as president.

In a proud but troubled Cypriot poet and bookworm, THEO PANAYIDES finds someone for whom books themselves have stories, and not just the ones inside them The book is at ...