Searching for Paul from Bitter Lemons
A British woman has made a surprising revelation about her own past whilst reading Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons of Cyprus and is now on a...
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Papacostas book paints unflattering picture of Christofias
Former defence minister Costas Papacostas’ autobiography, titled Anemodarmeni Poria (Wuthering Life), was released this week, one year after his death at Nicosia General, where he...
Public Opinion: Christofias’ Book and Legacy
Former president Demetris Christofias recently published the Turkish-language edition of his book, tentatively titled ‘Suppressed History’ where he gives his own account of his presidency...
Beneath the carob trees
A book released this week shows how the Committee for Missing Persons has helped families on both sides of the island come to terms with...
The Cyprus bail-in & policy lessons, a book by Orphanides & Michaelides
The auditorium at Journalist House in which “The Cyprus Bail-in: Policy Lessons from the Cyprus Economic Crisis,” on how Cyprus was led to the banking crisis...
Bilingual dictionary reflects Cypriots’ common words and memories, authors say
By Georgia Vassiliou Two Cypriots from across the divide have come together to produce a joint dictionary of the dialects of their respective communities. The...
Defence Against the Dark Arts: UK spies guarded against Harry Potter leak
Usually concerned with top secret matters affecting national security, Britain’s eavesdropping spy agency GCHQ was also on the lookout for leaks of a yet-to-be-published Harry...
A friendship formed in water
Writer Constantine Markides and gold medal US Olympic swimmer Anthony Ervin have united their talent, love of swimming and life adventures to bring their co-written...
In new book, Pope Francis explains vision of compassionate Church
By Philip Pullella Pope Francis calls in a new book for Roman Catholic leaders to be compassionate shepherds to a “wounded humanity”, not lofty scholars...
Turning the Cyprus problem industry on its head
By Stefanos Evripidou When the Roman Inquisition forced Galileo to denounce his defence of Copernicus’ theory that the earth moves around the sun, and not...
Exhuming the diplomats’ graveyard
By Jean Christou ‘THE diplomats’ graveyard’ is a term often used to describe the effect the intractable Cyprus issue has had on the parade of...
Pictures of displacement
By Zoe Christodoulides AN ENGLISH couple with no Cypriot blood carrying an official refugee card after the 1974 invasion is practically unheard of. That the...
Why are we in ‘The state we are in’ book launch
AN open discussion, aiming at launching the book “The state we are in”, written by David Officer and Yiouli Taki, will take place in Hilton...
