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Terra Nullius Cyprus – Episode 29: Announcing the launch of EuniteCyprus’ 10th anniversary of Startups4Peace. Meet Hasan Tabakcı (21/6/2025)

Read more about the article Terra Nullius Cyprus – Episode 29: Announcing the launch of EuniteCyprus’ 10th anniversary of Startups4Peace. Meet Hasan Tabakcı (21/6/2025)

In the 29th episode of Terra Nullius Cyprus, meet Hasan Tabakci, Business Support Officer of EuniteCyprus who talks about the wonderful work of Startups4Peace (Su4p) and announces the 26 June Launch + Networking Event and Pitching Battle for €20,000 seed funding and business boot camps thanks to the generous support of the Embassy of Finland in Cyprus and the European Commission in Cyprus and European Parliament Office in Cyprus.

KaleidHERscope – Episode 50: Dialogue, inclusion & peace processes expert Thania Pappenholz on creating new narratives to counteract the normalcy of a not normal situation (14/6/2025)

Read more about the article KaleidHERscope – Episode 50: Dialogue, inclusion & peace processes expert Thania Pappenholz on creating new narratives to counteract the normalcy of a not normal situation (14/6/2025)

Thania Pappenholz, dialogue, inclusion and peace processes expert and founder of Inclusive Peace, speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the state or better, ‘unstate’ of peace processes, the role of women and most of all about how to reactivate a process in Cyprus that does not necessarily build on past processes and entails inter-generational conversations for visions for the future and creating new narratives to counteract the normalcy of a not normal situation.

KaleidHERscope – Episode 49: Artist, director, curator and producer Ellpetha Tsivicos speaks about making theatre accessible to everyone (3/6/2025)

Read more about the article KaleidHERscope – Episode 49: Artist, director, curator and producer Ellpetha Tsivicos speaks about making theatre accessible to everyone (3/6/2025)

Ellpetha Tsivicos, a Cypriot-American artist, director, curator and producer speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about her creative arts healing program ‘I Wish I Knew How’ through which she mentors a community of formerly incarcerated people, about using public spaces and making theatre accessible to everyone and about her book A Life Into Lands, and her strong connection to her homeland, Cyprus.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 61: Avrupa’yı savunacağız (Avrupa’ya rağmen) (28/5/2025)

Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan, Avrupa seyahatlerini, Kemal'ın fotoğraf kamerası aşkını, Polonya'nın ekonomik ve siyasal gelişimini, Japonya'nın yaşlanan nüfusunu, pirinç rekoltesini, Kubrick'in The Shining filmini, Sertaç'ın yaklaşmakta olan Fransa seyahatini, Orban'ın trene binmeyişini, kaçınılmaz robotik devrimi, yapay zekayı ve daha niye mevzuları masaya yatırdılar. Avrupa'ya rağmen, Avrupa'yı savundular. Bu arada So Kolektif'in "İlişkiler" temalı Kıssa II'nin son gösterimi 1 Haziran 2025'te Lefkoşa Naci Talat Vakfı'nda, kaçırmayın!

KaleidHERscope – Episode 48: Award-winning Palestinian theatre maker, Iman Aoun speaks about her inspiring professional career (22/5/2025)

Read more about the article KaleidHERscope – Episode 48: Award-winning Palestinian theatre maker, Iman Aoun speaks about her inspiring professional career (22/5/2025)

Award-winning Palestinian theatre maker, Iman Aoun speaks on kaleidHERscope about her inspiring professional career that focuses on grassroots, indigenous, youth, and women empowerment, gender disparity and resistance to the occupation, including The Gaza Monologues, ASHTAR International Youth Theatre Festival, The Syrian Monologues and Letters to Gaza in 2024, a solidarity response to the genocide in Gaza.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 60: Beyaz duman! (16/5/2025)

Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan, papalık seçimlerini, Katolik dünyasındaki eğilimleri, en çok içerik üretilen podcast kategorilerini, En iyi Japon yazarları, tüm dünyayı saran otokratikleşmeyi, otoriter yönetimlerin yapay zekayı nasıl kullandıklarını, Trump'a duyulan tepkinin dünyadaki seçimlere yansımalarını, Sertaç'ın Mersin'de yediklerini ve içtiklerini konuştular.

Figure It – Episode 19: Cypriots are more pro-solution than you think (6/5/2025)

Cypriots are far more in favour of a federal solution of the Cyprus problem than we might think: yes, even when you get quite specific with the questions. In this episode Sapienta Economics Director, Fiona Mullen, talks to University of Cyprus Professor of Social Development and Psychology, Charis Psaltis, about the survey methodology and why attitudes towards a bizonal bicommunal federation are becoming more positive. You can find the conjoint survey paper mentioned in the podcast here. You can find Charis’ new Substack newsletter on surveys here. And you can find the full Infogram in the episode image here.

KaleidHERscope – Episode 47: Both oppressed and completely free: S.African poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers talks about her identity journey (6/5/2025)

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South African poet and performance artist Dr. Phillippa Yaa de Villiers discusses her identity journey with Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope, reflecting on her experience as a mixed-race African and adoptee raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa; a journey that placed her in the paradoxical position of being both oppressed and completely free.

Figure It – Episode 18: US tariffs might hurt Cyprus in unexpected ways (25/4/2025)

In this episode of Figure It, economic historian Dr Alexander Apostolides of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance talks to Sapienta Economics Director Fiona Mullen about how US tariffs could affect Cyprus in ways that policymakers might not be expecting. He also gives some advice on what policymakers could be doing to ensure resilience in these uncertain times.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 59: En son Facebook’tan pilaki gönderiyorduk, biz ne ara… (18/4/2025)

Garip Zamanlar ekibi modaya uydu ve yapay zekaya karikatürlerini yaptırdı. Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan'ın hazırlayıp sunduğu Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde enfes bir muhabbet yapıldı: Yapay zekanın en yeni halleri, gelmiş geçmiş en iyi diziler, Sertaç'ın Chicago ziyareti, pek sayın Musk ve Trump beyefendiler, Warren Buffet'in fello gibi hep su yüzünde kalması, Bill Gates'in gelecek tahmini, global ekonomideki son gelişmeler, tekmili yine bu programda...