Theo Panayides

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 it might be; “Black-eyed peas,” says Marios Skoutellas instantly, giving it a cursory glance. He knows this area well. Just out of sight, behind a row of olive trees, is one of the five locations where he makes his living as a small-scale organic farmer.

Looking at the chart of ‘coffee consumption by country' at the World Population Review website – a slightly random chart, topped by Luxembourg and featuring such unexpected names as Belize and Laos in the top 10 – one finds Cyprus in 15th position.

We asked a random selection of people on the streets of Nicosia if they'd vote for Odysseas Michaelides - the former auditor-general who, following his dismissal, has said he's considering going into politics. https://www.youtube/watch?v=b0QNGOAx4iM

Furen is the name of the place – situated right on Eleftheria Square, the most prominent location in all of Nicosia – offering “a real taste of Lebanon”. But which Lebanon? The war-torn country currently being invaded by Israeli forces? The failed state ensnared in what Fayez Hwalla calls a “cursed region”? Or the land of fine cuisine and cosmopolitan culture, trailing memories of a golden age when Beirut was known as the ‘Paris of the Middle East'?

Mention migrants, and you're likely to be met with hostility. Everyone's tired of the subject. Still, the asylum seekers who've been stuck in the UN buffer zone for several months now may be regarded as a special case.

Footage from the annual 28th October parade - mostly made up of high school and university students - marking Greece's resistance to Nazism and Fascism during World War II, though also protesting against the Turkish occupation of Cyprus. Full story here. https://www.youtube/watch?v=858micvsJ-Y

My name is Theo, and I’m an old-movie-holic. I’ve waited years to confess this addiction, hoping in vain for a suitable support group to emerge – and now, finally, we have Styx Film Encounters. This is big news for classic-film buffs, and film buffs in general. Styx, simply put, is…

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 at lightning speed: straight lines at right angles, then diagonals, then a frilly fringe. A stray trapezoid forms into a face, the lines collect into a vaguely equine shape. At the end he finally pauses – and an adult hand comes into the frame, prompting him to sign his name: ‘PARIS'.

A photo, taken in the Turkish Cypriot enclave of northern Nicosia in the late 1960s, shows 15-year-old Suleyman posing with his rifle and his best friend, the two lads having heeded the call to perform sentry duty on the newly established Green Line: schoolboys by day, soldiers by night, as he puts it.

Greek Cypriot schoolkids in Nicosia, organised by student committee Psem, protested on the 41st anniversary of the declaration of the ‘TRNC'.