Theo Panayides

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'.

Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier, the unofficial starting point for the festive season – December 1, at least according to Advent calendars – getting progressively pushed back.

Would a close-to-the-bone performance that will ‘shake you up a bit' benefit from being enjoyed by a wider audience?

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 but the opposite, because he doesn't want to put them in the awkward position of having to talk to