Theo Panayides is a journalist and filmmaker at Cyprus Mail. He focuses on culture and society, exploring themes in the arts, entertainment, and the film industry, while also addressing social interests and contemporary cultural movements. His work has been featured in Cyprus Mail, and his profiles have been compiled in the book ‘The Lives of Others’.
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It's a game, of course. We the People vote for MPs every five years – then, once results are in, those politicians can relax.
By: Theo Panayides
A total of 378,150 people voted in last Sunday’s parliamentary elections – but what about the foreign nationals? That number represents 66.4 per cent of those who were eligible to vote, but it’s entirely separate from the 243,000 non-citizens (144,000 of them citizens of a non-EU country, the rest EU…
With Cyprus Pride 2026 coming up, we asked a selection of people on the streets of Nicosia. https://www.youtube/watch?v=xNRPsVOz8Do
A march in Larnaca last Saturday by the Congolese community in memory of Christian Ndjondo, who died on May 27 after falling from a third-floor balcony during a police immigration raid. https://www.youtube/watch?v=ybQvfvukiRU
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 in, I can get through tough things,” says Yianoula. “It’s made me more resilient, I think,” agrees Kyriacos.…
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 in the way in 2014 (Brazil) and 2018 (Russia), forcing him to cut back – then 2022 was…
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
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 calmer home starts here
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 someone down the hall bursting into loud, lusty song.
Joshua Polloso Epiphaniou is one of the few local criminals who are so notorious that they're known by a nickname (for some reason, English-language media tend to refer to him as ‘the little hacker', whereas in Greek he's usually ‘the hacker').
