Theo Panayides

When does social-media rage turn into hate speech? Is Eoka a terrorist organisation? Should it be legal to blame Nato expansion for the war in Ukraine? And who gets to decide?

Film partly shot on the island looks at denial required to live in Israel now while ignoring the genocide Does Yes have a Cyprus connection?

‘Poiitarika' (the category name for their works) were “long narrative songs,” she explains, “the closest thing in English might be ‘ballads'” – like the old broadsheet ballads of the Anglo-American world, printed on a single piece of paper and easily disseminated.

A few days before the Eurovision song contest, we asked people on the streets of Nicosia how they feel about the contest in general, and Cyprus entry ‘Jalla' in particular.

The facts are there, hidden behind a curtain in Arianna Economou's rehearsal space in old Kaimakli: shelves upon shelves of boxes, the earliest dated ‘1983'. This is her personal archive, the official mementos – videos, photos, flyers – of all the modern-dance pieces she's performed and choreographed in the past 50 years.

Dolphins – cute, clever dolphins, the tourist's friend – are actually a menace, according to fishermen.

The upgrade of Liopetri fishing shelter (Potamos Liopetriou) isn't the most extreme example of a scenic spot being altered – some will say destroyed – in Cyprus. It's not even the most extreme in its area, which is also the area of Ayia Thekla and the Ayia Napa marina. Still, it's notable for two reasons.

It's a game, of course. We the People vote for MPs every five years – then, once results are in, those politicians can relax.

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