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Stavros Panagiotidis: Myths hide the real beauty of history

Did Churchill really say that heroes fight like Greeks? Did the Battle of Crete really play a part in...
Books

Venetia Papa: Challenging the power of digital platforms

The digital age has brought with it a new, powerful and largely invisible form of power, exercised through platforms,...
Books

Max Nikias: We need ‘Antigones’ willing to stand up to authority

One of the most distinguished Cypriot academics of the diaspora, Max Nikias rose to the highest levels of American...
World

Sally Rooney “a writer, not a terrorist”, say 160 cultural figures

Annie Ernaux, Paul Mescal and Julian Barnes are among 160 cultural figures who have condemned the halt to sales...
Books

“Voices and Memories of Asia Minor and Cyprus. They do not fade, they are not forgotten”

Three presentations of the publication in Nicosia, Limassol and Athens this November Tetraktys Films announces the successful completion of the...
Opinion

From Nazi bonfires to Russian bombs: burning books, erasing a nation

Russia has torched 12 million books in Ukraine. Printing houses, publishers and second-hand bookshops have all been hit in...
Local

Erini Loucaides on award-winning fiction, diaspora and the ‘wounded’ Cyprus that shapes her work

Cyprus-based writer Erini Loucaides has won the 2026 Minds Shine Bright Places Writing Prize for Relentlessly Prismatic, a short...
Books

‘Every generation has to live and deal with what came before.’ : Cypriot author on shared guilt

Pavlos Pamborides’ novella And a Wake-up explores the events surrounding 1974 and the lives of those involved both before...
Opinion

When the bolted doors swung open

As I wrote yesterday, the two books by Nicosia-based author and researcher Stefanos Evangelidis, a lawyer and member of...
Local

Rare books and historical documents open to researchers at University of Cyprus Library

The University of Cyprus Library is opening access to rare books and historical documents from its special collections, offering...
Opinion

Women and children as slaves in Cyprus

Yesterday (5 August), I visited the writer and researcher Stefanos Evangelides at his home in Nicosia. Although he lives...
Books

“And a Wake-up”: an exploration of generational Cypriot guilt

Pavlos Pamborides’ novella And a Wake-up, explores the events surrounding 1974, illustrating the lives of those involved both before...
Books

The ten best short novels under 150 pages – chosen by experts

A novel doesn’t need to be a hefty tome to change your life. Forget War and Peace (1,200 pages)...
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