‘My dream is to go back’
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 ...
A minute with: Thomas Kettenis, Triathlete
Where do you live?I live in an apartment in Aglandjia with my partner.
What did you have for breakfast?Nothing. I am on intermittent fasting.
Describe your perfect dayThe ...
The incredible art of breathing
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 ...
A minute with: Irineos Evangelakis, Architect, Writer
Where do you live?I live in Nicosia with my parents.
What did you have for breakfast?Coffee, egg and a slice of bread with cheese.
Describe your perfect day....
A minute with: Andreas Nicolaou, founder of the Cyprus Classic Motorcycle Museum
Where do you live?I am a refugee from Kyra, Morphou, and I now live in Nicosia with my family.
What did you have for breakfast?Black olives and a ...
‘People are queueing up to do this job’
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 ...
A minute with: Anastasia Fierou, owner of Old Classic Thrift Shop
Where do you live?The beautiful Ayios Dhometios, Nicosia with my dog and boyfriend.
Best childhood memory?Every summer when we went to my village, Kampos, with my grandparents.
What ...
India’s Zakir Hussain, the tabla maestro with ‘dancing fingers’, dies
Zakir Hussain, whose “dancing fingers” made him one of the greatest players of the tabla or Indian drums and who became a major force in contemporary world music, has died.
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A minute with: Fimi Hadjigianni, Photographer
Where do you live?I live in a house in Ayios Dhometios with some cats.
What did you have for breakfast?Oats with carob syrup.
Describe your perfect day.I ...
A minute with: Marinos Koumides, painter – musician
Where do you live?I live in Acropolis, Nicosia, with my dog Ektoras 🙂
What did you have for breakfast?Bacon and eggs.
Describe your perfect day.In the mountains with ...
A minute with Luciana Franzolin, Photojournalist, owner of London School of Photography Cyprus
Where do you live?I live in Nicosia with my boyfriend and my son. I’m from Brazil.
Best childhood memory?Spending time at my grandparents’ rural property. I would ...
A minute with Dr Nicoletta Demetriou Ethnomusicologist, singer, creative writing teacher
Where do you live and with whom?In Engomi, Nicosia, by myself.
What did you have for breakfast?Oats with banana and peanut butter, cooked in oat milk, and a ...
Cyprus tradition given a twist
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 ...
A minute with: Androulla Yiannaki, Poet
Where do you live?I live in Dasoupolis, in Nicosia. I’ve been living alone since my husband died in 2022.
What did you have for breakfast?I had half a ...
Levi Pettit says this Element has been a driving force in his career so far
For the past decade, continual improvement has been a consistent theme in investment professional Levi Pettit’s educational and work pursuits.
Pettit double-majored in finance and economics at the University ...
When it comes to art, he’s a prodigy
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 ...
A minute with Jimmy Mavrommatis, lead vocalist
Where do you live?I live with my partner.
What did you have for breakfast?Boiled egg, nuts and a protein bar!
Describe your perfect day.There is no perfect ...
A minute with Kyriakos S Kyriakou, Blogger
Where do you live?I live alone in Nicosia.
What did you have for breakfast?Porridge with almond milk, chia seeds, walnuts, banana.
Describe your perfect dayRise in the morning, ...
A minute with Iakovos Hadjipieris, writer
Where do you live?I live on asteroid B612 with a small prince.
What did you have for breakfast?I had traditional warm Athienou bread, dipped in butter, with halloumi.
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‘That could easily be me trying to cross the sea’
“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’...
A minute with Dimitris Leonidou, tattoo Artist
Where do you live?In Ayia Varvara Nicosia with my partner
What did you have for breakfast?Coffee and three eggs!
Describe your perfect dayA 10am appointment for a big ...
In Lebanon ‘we always find a way’
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 ...
A minute with Antonis Loizides, bass player
Where do you live?My house in Nicosia with my wife
What did you have for breakfast?Coffee and a toast, nothing too fancy.
Describe your perfect dayLate wakeup, no ...
Letting the land breathe
We’re outside the church of Panayia Kousouliotissa near the village of Flasou, surrounded by pine, eucalyptus and prickly pear. The field next door looks cultivated, and I wonder what ...