Theo Panayides

Why is Motherwitch – opening this Thursday in local cinemas – quite a special kind of movie? Let us count the ways. “It’s special because it’s Cyprus’ first folk-horror feature ...

We asked people on the streets of Nicosia for their take on the increasingly close relations between Cyprus and Israel.

Britain and China don’t agree on too many things. Both agree, however, that the 2026-27 El Niño weather event is likely to be the most powerful ever. “We ...

Oleg is Ukrainian, 33, and in finance. It’s 7pm on a Friday, the end of a long working week. You’d expect him to be in a bar, letting off ...

It’s no secret that Cypriots don’t read much. A Eurostat poll from two years ago ranked us second-last in the EU, behind only Romania. That poll made waves, ...

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 ...

What’s the story behind Salt, a brand-new 20-minute film premiering on Monday 12th October at the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus? In a way, it begins with the ...

We visited Pingy Pongo for Peace, a bicommunal table-tennis event in Nicosia – organised by Pingy Pongo and HADE – bringing together people from both sides of the island for friendly play, ...

A pocket-sized hardback with a cover like a vision of Atlantis, all sea-blue and filigreed gold. The Magic We Create reads the title – then, in smaller letters, The Book of ...

A few days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we asked people on the streets of Nicosia what they remember from that day in 2001, and what it means to them all ...

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 ...

When it comes to solar power, the ultimate dream is self-sufficiency – both on the macro level, as an island (since we have so much sunshine), and on the micro, household ...

The role of personal doctors has come under scrutiny as part of a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report on our national health system (Gesy). The report, titled ‘Strengthening primary ...

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 ...

It’s so rare for a government scheme to be an unqualified Good Thing that it feels downright ungrateful to criticise it. Then again, even Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, speaking ...

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 ...

Romani Youssef sits in a detention centre, waiting to be deported back to Egypt after being arrested as a ‘prohibited immigrant’ two months ago. Meanwhile, his Cypriot fiancée Anthi ...

A day after sirens rang out in the Republic – audible in the occupied north – to mark July 20, the anniversary of the 1974 invasion, we asked people on both sides how it ...

Here’s a question (translated from the Greek) from the most recent citizenship exam for third-country nationals, on July 4: ‘Which of the following information about Cyprus is inaccurate: 1. National service ...

What, you may wonder, has become of ‘the little hacker’? Joshua Polloso Epiphaniou is one of the handful of local criminals who are so notorious that they’re known by ...

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 ...

A friend found it in their mailbox. A small brown envelope, unaddressed, seemingly promotional but sporting a handwritten message, the writing calligraphic in its symmetry and the obvious care taken: ‘...

A protest outside the presidential palace in Nicosia, sparked by news that the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ was holding a meeting in Cyprus. Full story here.

The first World Cup that Giovanni remembers vividly was South Africa in 2010. He was 15 at the time, on summer holiday, and went a little football-mad, watching every game. Life got ...