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Summer has always been my favourite season of the year: long days spent at the beach soaking in the sun and relaxing by the sea with friends. However, summer in Cyprus has proven to be a tough one with its very high temperatures...

The everyday’s life in the neighborhood I’m living in is made up by different forms of experiences involving all five senses. Days and nights are marked by the adhan, the muezzin’s calling for the believers, whose voice reaches both our apartment and the shelter...

In Cyprus, locals eat A LOT of meat. Really, a lot. At mezes restaurants, you will always find yourself not knowing anymore how many types of meat dishes you ate, or how they were cooked, or what kinds of meat you ate. But you...

As your parents probably said to you many times: never waste food, it’s a shame! But what’s the actual meaning of food waste? And food loss? How can we, people with individual and social responsibility, act to tackle this increasing phenomenon? Let me give you...

“Asfar, akhdar, ahmar or azraq?“...Come to enjoy our UNO game at the shelter! These are the first Arabic words I could learn while playing UNO games with the Arabic speaker boys of the shelter, corresponding to the colours yellow, green, red and blue. This...

The tradition of coffee is something that I grew up with. In Naples, my hometown, coffee is not just a drink you have during the day to boost your energy but a true ritual. There are many traditions linked to the consumption of coffee...

This past year and a half has been a year of profound change for me. Once back from my Universal Civil Service in Ecuador I went through a moment of disorientation. What would I have done? How to use the knowledge acquired and the...

Although the public perception appears to have changed, there exists a negative mentality towards the widerange of urban visual expressions such as murals, graffiti, tagging, street art and even urban defacement. These diverse aesthetic forms of expression straddle the line between contemporary art and...

Change is never simple. You leave behind all that is easy and comfortable to embark in a new adventure into the unknown. However, when you decide to board that plane and start a new page of your life, you want to live this new...

I have always thought of the words as essential, in everyday life: even more than gestures, even more than glances, words have always been everything to me. Letter by letter, to form entire speeches. How can you communicate without a common language? How can...