Κυπριακες Υποσημειωσεις

Article originally published on the Kontrasusta webiste. Archived version located at the Cyprus Movements Archive.   ------- Is there a non-colonial language in Cyprus? And if yes, should we all speak Eteo-Cypriot? published on November 22, 2017 by nvp No one can argue that language is not, at a certain level of analysis, a political tool. People in Cyprus intuitively know this, and that’s why I won’t go into the theory, but instead focus on the practical. Language is political, and we, as individuals and groups, are doing politics. Sometimes consciously, other times less so. This website was also created by a series of political decisions, some of which quite conscious (it is a website which doesn’t limit itself to one part of Cyprus, even though the default option is to segregate). It is, among other things, a spiritual successor of an older political project, the 35-33 Media Collective, but it’s not the same as 35-33 for many reasons. Among them: language polic...

Το άρθρο δημοσιεύθηκε αρχικά στα Αγγλικά στον ιστότοπο Kontrasusta. Αυτή η μετάφραση εντοπίστηκε στο Κυπριακό Κινηματικό Αρχείο.   ------- Υπάρχει μια μη αποικιακή γλώσσα στην Κύπρο; Και αν ναι, θα έπρεπε όλοι να μιλάμε στην ετεοκυπριακή; δημοσιεύτηκε στις 22 Νοεμβρίου, 2017, από nvp. Κανείς δεν μπορεί να ισχυριστεί ότι η γλώσσα δεν είναι, σε ένα ορισμένο επίπεδο ανάλυσης, ένα πολιτικό εργαλείο. Οι άνθρωποι στην Κύπρο το γνωρίζουν αυτό διαισθητικά, και γι' αυτό δεν θα ασχοληθώ με τη θεωρία, αλλά θα επικεντρωθώ στο πρακτικό επίπεδο. Η γλώσσα είναι πολιτική, και εμείς, ως άτομα και ομάδες, κάνουμε πολιτική. Μερικές φορές συνειδητά, άλλες φορές λιγότερο. Αυτός ο ιστότοπος δημιουργήθηκε επίσης από μια σειρά πολιτικών αποφάσεων, μερικές από τις οποίες αρκετά συνειδητές (είναι ένας ιστότοπος που δεν περιορίζεται σε ένα μέρος της Κύπρου, παρόλο που η συνηθισμένη επιλογή είναι ο διαχωρισμός). Είναι, μεταξύ άλλων, πνευματικός διάδοχος ενός παλαιότερου πολιτικού εγ...

I am here preserving an old post I made on the Kontrasusta website that listed documentaries on Cyprus. The post can be located on the Wayback Machine by pressing here. Some links in the post might be now dead.  The documentaries mentioned in the list that were made by Peter Loizos can be found here.   Delirium

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.