As the summer sets in it is time to think of the shade your plants could be gifting Gardening with Patricia Jordan
LOOKING back to my article of June 2007 I see that we had storms and rain in the second week of May, just like those...
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Committed to making a Cyprus film
THEO PANAYIDES meets an energetic and organised film maker whose first project is about to open in local cinemas First things first: Committed, a Cypriot...
A minute with Roula Ioannidou-Stavrou Award winning poet and author of 23 books (poetry, prose, plays)
Where do you live? In Aglantzia –Nicosia. With my husband. Best childhood memory? Having breakfast at my grandmother’s Maritsa Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite...
Ottoman decadence returns to Nicosia
By Evie Andreou OMERIYE HAMAM, an integral part of Nicosia’s history for centuries and a top tourist attraction, has reopened after being closed for the...
There’s more to Cyprus than just being an outpost of Europe
By Theo Panayides If you happen to talk to Stephane Fissentzides at Ermou300 – the versatile space in old Nicosia that functions as a coffee...
A minute with Antigoni Pericleous Papadopoulou Member of the European Parliament (DIKO, S&D), candidate for re-election on May 25
Where do you live? I am a refugee from Morphou and have lived in Strovolos with my family since 1974 Best childhood memory? All the...
Making a difference stitch by stitch
By Alix Norman “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination,” said the late, great Nelson Mandela. And if he’d added...
Not knowing what comes next
THEO PANAYIDES meets two gypsy jazz brothers who play each concert like it is the first and last time they will be on stage ...
A minute with Ozay Mehmet Retired Research Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Author of two historical novels
Where do you live? Ottawa, Canada with wife Karen Ann who I married in 1965. I spend two periods a year in Cyprus, Spring...
The relationship between cinema and reality
THEO PANAYIDES meets an Iranian film director who has fled to London. A restless cancer survivor, she may return to the island The camera...
A minute with Les Palin, artist
Where do you live? I live in Barnet and in Cyprus I live in Paphos. I used to spend four months a year on the...
At home with a big family on a small island
One Italian-Cypriot couple have created a home and lifestyle to envy. And they have created a website to give an insight into a different way...
Worshippers pray for the holy man
By Evie Andreou Followers from around the world have gathered at the hospital in northern Nicosia which is treating a revered and influential Turkish Cypriot...
Something to remember
Gardening with Patricia Jordan MAY is such a lovely month in the garden. Everything is bright and fresh still and heady perfume is everywhere. Plants...
She who does the right thing
THEO PANAYIDES meets the author of children’s books that all address a serious question and finds a serious woman beneath a layer of niceness ...
A minute with Paul Stewart Professor of Literature at University of Nicosia; actor with Alpha Square; author of Now Then (a novel) coming out in May
Where do you live? In an old house in Ayios Omologites, Nicosia with Katy and our two boys, Sam and Joe Best childhood memory? The...
Living the dream
By Bejay Browne SITTING outside a beautiful old building in the heart of a traditional Cypriot village bathed in sunshine and sipping a Cyprus coffee...
Cypriot TV personalities make a splash on the big screen
By Evie Andreou IN TIMES of economic depression love and devotion in one’s own art often becomes the driving force behind creative ideas. In order...
Dealing with the conflict within
Through ‘psychology with a soul’ we can find inner peace and learn to live together, THEO PANAYIDES is told A comfortable home on a...
A minute with Despina Ioannou Axiotakis Executive Director of the Cyprus US Chamber of Commerce and General Secretary of the Cyprus Federation of America
Where do you live? In New Jersey with my son (I am a widow) Best childhood memory? August 1956, coming to America on the boat...
