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The deep connections between the islands of Ireland and Cyprus are being marked by the University of Cyprus’ Irish Studies Collective through a series of international collaborations, literary events and ...

Ukraine at the Olympics is quite a recent development. For decades, its athletes were enfolded into other teams – tagging along with Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, then as ...

Miriam Erne is in what might be called a transitional phase. At 36, “I have lived through some stuff,” she says – vivid stuff and sometimes terrible stuff, images she’ll carry ...

“Do you come to Pervolia?” movement coach Andreas Economou had asked me when I spoke to him earlier in the week. “Rarely,” I had replied. And it was true, Pervolia, ...

It takes a moment to even realise it’s her, this slim young woman in a light-pink T-shirt, dwarfed by the gaudy tower of Ayia Napa marina. She looks like ...

Yiorgos Georghiou puts it bluntly, in the prologue to his book I Was My Own Enemy: “I am not a psychologist. I am not a clinician or a researcher. I ...

Sitting in the spokesperson’s office at the Filoxenia Conference Center, the desk stacked with piles of leftover CY2026 stickers and notepads, we’re suddenly distracted by the sound of ...

I started reading Matthew Philip Long’s debut novella a couple of months after my mother passed away. And I had to stop. Set in Cyprus, Life Goes on Without ...

Stronger and softer, says Yianoula Kyprianides when I ask how her experience – actually more the experience of her husband Kyriacos – has changed them both. ‘Stronger’ is obvious enough. “‘Stronger’ as ...

The facts are there, hidden behind a curtain in Arianna Economou’s rehearsal space in old Kaimakli: shelves upon shelves of boxes, the earliest dated ‘1983’. This is her personal archive, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Eddy Nassar can talk, all right. “If we don’t stop, I’ll keep you here for another five hours!” he jokes as the interview winds to a close – though ...

We don’t talk much about Iasonas Apostolopoulos himself. He’s not shy about his personal life, it just seems like we have more important subjects to talk about. He’...

What can you say about a seven-ton, six-metre ice sculpture in the middle of the Egyptian desert? The answer is ‘Nothing’, or at least it doesn’t matter. The image ...

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 ...