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Stunt rider popping award-winning wheelies
Balance and control seem to be the tricks of the trade for a champion motorcycle stunt rider, finds THEO PANAYIDES, meeting a man who has been around bikes all his life What does Aras Gibieza think...
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Pub owner calls time on a life behind the bar
THEO PANAYIDES finds the owner of the oldest pub in Cyprus to be a quiet extrovert New owner Renos claims he’s inherited a museum, and vows to change it as little as possible. It’ll still be the only...
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Cyprus’ brand name in the dance world
With shows that bring together discipline and freedom and dancers showing differing grades of stillness, one Cyprus-born dancer has taken the world by storm. THEO PANAYIDES speaks to a woman who says...
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Film-festival strategist is driven by ‘making an impact’
The taste for adventure and a world that was larger-than-life led one woman to lead a life in film. THEO PANAYIDES meets someone now giving emerging filmmakers the benefit of 25 years navigating one of...
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At home in a world of high politics
Well-positioned in her eyrie, THEO PANAYIDES meets a lifelong diplomat and former minister who has lived somewhat above the fray but is now enjoying her freedom and looking forward to publishing a book...
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Cyprus rapper an artist for the thinking man
THEO PANAYIDES meets the elder statesman of the local scene, whose concerts regularly bring people to tears, and finds a man who describes what he sees in the local dialect Julio (or ‘Julio Komboloi’,...
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Veteran matchmaker still bringing people together
In a matchmaker of five decades’ standing, THEO PANAYIDES meets a woman who had no joy in her own marriage but still preaches to those searching for love that the most important thing in any...
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Art dealer is happiest in the world of ideas
How to make a positive contribution is the driving force of a Nicosia art dealer and former physics teacher. THEO PANAYIDES meets a man surrounded by art of all kinds, driven to choose the good path...
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Silicon Valley ‘foresight trainer’ on exploring the future
Working at the Institute for the Future, one American woman is less about life-changing ideas and more about thinking of a world yet to come and how to shape it. THEO PANAYIDES meets her The breakfast...
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TV personality brands himself the average Cypriot
In the most popular man on Cyprus television, THEO PANAYIDES meets a comedian who is chatty, gregarious and exactly the same as his onscreen persona There he is, the most popular man on Cyprus...
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Trans campaigner: I feel comfortable in my body now
After living as a man for 45 years, one transgender woman has found salvation in telling her story of transition in appearances around the world. THEO PANAYIDES meets a woman who has spent much of her...
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Asylum seekers in Cyprus (video)
We visited Caritas Cyprus, an NGO in Nicosia trying to deal with an influx of refugees – mostly from Cameroon – that’s left many asylum seekers homeless, sleeping wherever they can find. The post...
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2018: midwifing all sorts into the spotlight
By Theo Panayides It was a good year for bar owners: Christos Koukkides (a.k.a. ‘Moulos’), who runs Savino Rock Bar in Larnaca, followed a few months later by Panayiotis Kyriakou, the soft-spoken chap...
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Our writers’ favourite books, films and music of 2018
Cyprus Mail writers look back on the year in terms of books, music and what they saw on the small and large screens PRESTON WILDER, Film/TV writer Books: The weeks just flew by in 2018, and reading...
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Await further films from leading Cypriot director
For one of the island’s most successful movie directors – gaining commercial success with only his second film in ten years – film is all there ever was in his life. THEO PANAYIDES meets an unglamorous...
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Taking patients through the ozone layer
With international renown, and patients, one Nicosia doctor offers contentious treatment to sufferers of Lyme disease and many other problems. Dismissing detractors as being in the pockets of Big...
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A woman in science: dust and parenting
In a climate change scientist, THEO PANAYIDES finds a woman who grew up treated like a foreigner in the land of her birth and won’t reduce science to soundbite Funny how things turn out. I thought we’d...
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Veteran doctor says it’s more than just a business
With the looming introduction of a National Health Scheme, THEO PANAYIDES meets a doctor who revolutionised medicine on the island in the late 70s by introducing private services. He now looks back and...
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Leading light of art world lives as he pleases
Vigorous and volatile like his art, THEO PANAYIDES meets an artist who, although a long way from his hippy revolutionary days in London, has never worn a watch or a tie Kikos Lanitis sits, dressed in...
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What do you know about GESY (V)
Two weeks before we all have to start contributing to the National Health Scheme (Gesy), we asked people on the streets of Nicosia what they know about it, and what they think will happen. The post...
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