Forgetting a language is easy, relearning it is sometimes not as easy. My childhood was overflowing with languages: English, Greek and Turkish. I was incredibly lucky. It was English in my home, Turkish with my grandmother (and probably some other family members too) and Greek with everyone else. What went…
Read moreLeaving the Dali industrial area, just off the Nicosia highway, everything goes quiet. There are fewer cars, the landscape changes and there’s a distinct smell of manure in the air (from all the cow farms on the surrounding hills). Rolling fields give way to strange flat-topped hills in the distance…
Read more“So you identify more with Greek Cypriots?” This was the hardest question posed to me once, in an interview, which was part of a series of interviews conducted in Potamia. Needless to say I was pretty stumped and had to think fast as I was being recorded. I don’t remember…
Read moreI’m writing for me, for Greek Cypriots, for Turkish Cypriots, for anyone questioning their own identity, for people to know that things can be different and for people to know that people are never as they seem. For people to question and find answers. The blog, My Cyprus, my Κύπρος,…
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Καλήμερα, günaydın and good morning to all! My Cyprus, my Κύπρος, my Kıbrıs in collaboration with Civic Space / Sivil Alan will be releasing a number of blog posts/articles over the next month in support of their Open Door Festival, and in general in support of the importance of civil…
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Packed full of exciting and informative events, workshops, film screenings and much more, the Open Door Festival is encouraging members of the public to come and discover the world of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). “This festival will present the rich tapestry of the Cypriot Civil Society to the public,” said…
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Join in the fun with a month of exciting events ranging from film screenings, workshops and events from CSOs including Civic Space, Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC), Home for Cooperation, Naci Talat Foundation, POST Research Institute and many more. Running until October 24, the Festival aims to showcase the invaluable…
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Pledging to provide a platform for the voiceless, the Join2Media community media platform has recently launched. “We’re here to fill a gap. The mainstream journalist can just take the story [due to] creative commons license,” said Orestis Tringides, one of Join2Media’s key media experts, during the launch. He explained that…
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The dynamic teams of two of the island’s NGOs – NGO Support Centre and YEU Cyprus – recently opened their doors to the public, inviting them to come on down to their office in Nicosia to find out all about their fascinating work as well as how to get involved…
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The vital roles played by NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and CSOs (Civil Society Organisations) in Cyprus have come a long way in recent years but need to be strengthened even further, according to key figures in the civil society world. “[Civil society] could be talking more. They should be changing the…
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