Alecos Michaelides

Opinion

France: slavery, inequality, civil war

The protests in France are not as simple as some readings would have them. They cannot be written off...
Opinion

Wanted: swagger, not eagerness

The President covered a lot of ground at the 81st UN General Assembly. Most of it we have heard...
Opinion

An olive branch or a freedom fighter’s gun

Every year, as the UN General Assembly rolls round again, not a single speech by a Cypriot leader comes...
Opinion

Cyprus and the end of the United Kingdom

Last week in Cardiff, something genuinely historic happened, and barely anyone in a dozing Cyprus noticed. The First Ministers...
Opinion

The open crossing points perpetuating partition

Every so often, Cyprus's political scene stumbles on a "new" opportunity for the Cyprus problem. This time round it's...
Opinion

The US and Israel are part of the problem

More questions than answers hang in the air after the American-Israeli assault on Iran. The civilian casualties, the Tehran...
Local

Kurds march in Nicosia as parliament prepares to vote on Rojava resolution (photos)

Kurds in Cyprus gathered in Nicosia along with Cypriots on Thursday carrying flags of greater unified Kurdistan to protest...
Local

Kurds and Cypriots march in Nicosia demanding action against Rojava attacks (photos)

Kurds and Cypriots took to the streets in the rain at midday to protest jihadist Damascus regime attacks on...
Opinion

Who gets to decide what counts as poetry?

Let's start with an admission: awards have never impressed us, least of all state ones. We've always had reservations...
World

“October 7 was not the beginning of the conflict,” leading PFLP figure tells Phileleftheros

The “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” (PFLP) was founded in 1967 by the Christian Palestinian George Habash...
Opinion

Playing with lives to avoid admitting incompetence

A family was sent home with the phrases "normal results" and "insignificant findings" when the patient was 60 years...
Opinion

If This Is a Man – A modern, Israeli concentration camp: The Gaza Strip

"If This Is a Man" was written in 1947 by Primo Levi, one of the few survivors of the...
Local

Palestinian ambassador begins symbolic hunger strike in Nicosia

Palestinian Ambassador Abdallah Attari has begun a symbolic hunger strike at the Palestine embassy in Nicosia, in solidarity with...
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