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Anthropologist Peter Loizos made the following two documentaries on Cyprus:   Life Chances Four Families In A Greek Cypriot Village (1974) The first ethnographic film on Cyprus by Peter Loizou, Life Chances explores the lives of four Greek Cypriot families in the village of Argaκi and the changes in their modes of living with the development of agricultural production. It can be located by pressing here.   Sophia And Her People (1985) The second ethnographic film on Cyprus by Peter Loizou, Eventful Lives documents the experiences of a Greek Cypriot family from Argaki as refugees. Unlike his first film, narration is seldom used, leaving it to the camera to document the incidents, dialogues and experiences of the people filmed. It can be located by pressing here.    

I am here listing some resources for accessing information regarding the ongoing Israel-Iran war. These are meant to be additional resources and should be complemented by information provided by reliable international media, such as Reuters, Associated Press and Al Jazeera. It should be pointed out that information coming out of Iran is scarce, as internet access has been cut off by the Iranian state, and media censorship in Iran is one of the most extreme in the world. Israel has also implemented military censorship of its media regarding the war. Institute for the Study of War: U.S. think tank providing reliable day by day military analyses regarding ongoing conflicts. The Institute is currently producing reports on the ongoing war twice each day. It lists its sources thoroughly. Warfronts: YouTube channel providing summaries of military developments of ongoing conflicts. Has been consistently covering developments on the ongoing war. TLDR News Global: Independent online media gro...

The following text is a memo written by US Ambassador to Cyprus William Crawford to the US State Department on 29/04/76, describing the last days of the Greek Cypriot inhabitants of the village of Bellapais, after the Turkish invasion of 1974. Greek Cypriots lived in Bellapais until 1976. A newspaper article adding context to the memo can be located by pressing here. The text below has been adjusted from the memo for typos and other minor inconsistencies. The original can be found by pressing here.  — The last days of a Greek Cypriot village Before 1974, no village in Cyprus was better known for Charm, location and history than Bellapais. Sited in the Kyrenia hills looking northward to the Mediterranean, it had A Greek Cypriot population of over 1200, a delicately beautiful Crusader abbey, a reputation enhanced by Lawrence Durrell's "Bitter lemons", a modest community of foreign artists, Musicians, archaeologists, journalists and retired British. No Village, in fact, bett...

This book was published in the context of the exhibition entitled “(to the stones) we lent you our breath, and you whispered it back to the earth” at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 19th international architecture exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2025. It can be located by pressing here.

Article written by Zeynep G in 2005 and published on the website 'In Defence of Marxism'. Backup version can be located by pressing here.   ------- Cyprus is one of several countries that is to be admitted into the European Union in 2004. But there remains the problem of the unresolved national question on the island. Turkey's continued hold over the northern part of the island has become a major obstacle to Turkey being accepted as an EU member. The debate among the ruling elite in Turkey has swiftly turned into a blunt choice of "whether to abandon Cyprus or to annex it". This article by Zeynep Günes, a Turkish Marxist, presents a socialist perspective on the question of Cyprus. As membership of Cyprus to the EU draws closer, the pressure exerted by liberals in the Turkish press on Denktas (the president of the so-called, but unrecognised KKTC, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) has been increasing. All of a sudden they have started to complain ab...

I have encountered, on several occasions, rape denialism when talking with Cypriot pro-Palestinian leftists in relation to the October 7 Hamas attack. Since every such discussion has left me, frankly, nauseated, I decided to collect here some of the documented proof regarding the matter. I am responding here to one claim only, that rapes and sexual violence did not take place during Hamas' attack. I am not interested in writing a detailed rebuttal of every pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian propaganda point surrounding the narratives over sexual violence. Others are better equipped to do so than me, and indeed have done so. What I have encountered is not a discussion of such points, but merely the plain denial that sexual violence took place in any form or consistency. In relation to the facts themselves, we have reports and statements from credible organisations whose purpose is to document human rights violations across the globe, and who have not been shy of documenting atrocities ...