A minute with: Lisa Suhair Majaj, writer and editor
Where do you live?I live in Latsia with my two cats, Shadow and Ghost, amid photos and memories of my late husband, a Greek Cypriot professor of engineering whom ...
A minute with: Ciara Economopoulos (Ciarae) Singer
Where do you live?I live in Paphos, Cyprus with my family – my parents and my brother.
What did you have for breakfast?I normally have my own homemade granola ...
Judd Zebersky’s years of support bring smiles to kids at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital
Long before Judd Zebersky became a leader in the toy industry, he and his wife, Laura, made a decision that would touch thousands of lives. They wanted to use their ...
A minute with: Mehmet Musa, Strongman
Where do you live?I am from Cyprus, but currently live in London, United Kingdom with family
What did you have for breakfast?Obviously as I am from Cyprus, I ...
‘It’s a sickening example of a colonial mindset’
You’d be hard-pressed to find an interviewee as open and candid as Melanie Steliou. At one point, however, I ask her something (I won’t mention what) that she ...
A minute with Christina Stavri-Sakka, artist
Where do you live?I live in beautiful Larnaca, Cyprus, with my wonderful, supportive husband and our three beautiful children.
What did you have for breakfast?A soft-boiled egg over ...
43,000km ride in the name of Cyprus
In July last year, 39-year-old Nikos Leontis boarded a ferry in Limassol on a Yamaha XMAX maxi-scooter, headed on a journey across Europe to continue all the way down south ...
A minute with Elia Neophytou, ceramic artist
Where do you live?I live in the walled city of Nicosia with my partner and our dog Benjie.
What did you have for breakfast?Coffee, eggs and avocado.
Describe ...
A forage through the fields of Cyprus
Mastic and mustard, sea squill and agave and cistus and meadow crane’s-bill. “This is chickweed,” says Katie Richards, pointing out a thin leafy plant. “This one is chickweed. Let ...
A Minute with ….Souzana Petri, ceramicist – metal worker
Where do you live and with whom?I live in Nicosia with my partner and our cat, Ziggy.
What did you have for breakfast?Oats with blueberries and peanut butter.
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A minute with: Aila Mroué El-Bacha, founder of etxetera
Where do you live?I live in Ayios Andreas in Nicosia, not far from the prison. I love my neighbourhood – it’s quiet and leafy. I share my home with ...
‘A missile comes so fast it’ll hit you before you know it’
Oksana Cherkashyna tells a story about death. Actually a near-death experience, an account of being on a plane that developed ‘technical problems’ during landing – a polite way of saying they ...
A minute with: Koula Hadjitooulou, author, poet
Where do you live?I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with my husband and our rescue dog, Cheetah.
What did you have for breakfast?Yoghurt with half a banana, ...
A minute with: Stephanie Hadjipsalti, event & floral designer
Where do you live?I live in Nicosia with my son and our cat.
What did you have for breakfast?Cereal with yogurt and coffee, something simple to start the ...
‘We all have (the same) hidden superpower’
Michael Friedrich recalls a journalist from German TV channel ZDF who interviewed him and his wife Sabine while in the West Bank. The journalist (or at least his channel) took ...
A minute with: Andrew Sofos (Sofocleous) martial arts instructor
Where do you live?I live in Brookmans Park Hertfordshire with my wife of nearly 40 years Tatiana.
What did you have for breakfast?Tea/Coffee Fruit, yogurt, poached eggs,
Describe ...
A minute with: Nicos Nipat, visual artist
Where do you live?In my bachelor pad in Nicosia.
What did you have for breakfast?Yoghurt, wheat bran, honey and herbal tea.
Describe your perfect dayA day where everything ...
Cyprus too small for Colombia’s queen of trap
She’s ‘the queen of Colombian trap music’. She also appears in thriller show Fake Profile, “the most-viewed Latin series on Netflix the year it came out”. (Her song ‘Problem ...
A minute with: Emily Roditou, jewellery designer
Where do you live?Right now I live in Nicosia with my mom and my two dogs.
What did you have for breakfast?Usually I only have my coffee, but ...
‘I want to reach as many steak lovers in Cyprus as I can’
I was the owner of one of the nicest restaurants in one of the nicest streets of Cyprus, and the following week, I was cooking on the street, recalls Jeffrey, ...
A minute with: Florentia Kythreotou, gastronomy writer
Where do you live?In Latsia, Nicosia
What did you have for breakfast?Two kiwis to start, filtered coffee with milk, and sourdough toast with lots of butter and Cretan ...
A minute with: Photini Matsi, ceramicist
Where do you live?I live on my own, in Nicosia, next to my family.
What did you have for breakfast?It’s a bad habit, but I don’t ...
A minute with: Elpida Fragkeskidou Khenkin visual artist & founder of Kuns studio
Where do you live?I live in Nicosia with my husband, my plants, and my sculptures.
What did you have for breakfast?Eggs, fruit, avocado and homemade bread.
Describe your ...
Is this the most hated artist in Cyprus?
George Gavriel’s house is a little tricky to find, the name of the street (a small, dead-end street on the outskirts of Nicosia) not easily discernible when you search ...