Michael Theodoulou

I recently compiled and wrote most of this special background briefing on efforts to reunify Cyprus since 1974. There are profiles of the main players in the current negotiations and of those involved in previous settlement attempts. There are concise, factual guides to earlier peace plans, a useful chronology of events going back to 1955, maps and features. You will also see photographs of Varosha before and after it became the world’s biggest ghost town plus a video of Nicosia International Airport.

Why Cyprus approves of Britain using a sprawling British airbase on the island to launch attacks against ISIS.

Cypriots draw on spirit of '74 to see them through the island's bailout.

A 15-minute phone call between Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, thaws 34 years of ice between US and Iran.

Iran deploys snipers to battle mutant rats the size of cats in Tehran.

A personal account for The Times property section about renovating my listed house in Nicosia’s old town.

Young British evangelicals who are into clubbing enthusiasts go to the party town of Ayia Napa in Cyprus to save souls.

An early regional overview of the Arab Spring for The National.

Saudi Arabia’s first female commercial pilot can’t drive to work –but flies jet aircraft when she gets there.

For The Times, I watch the Red Arrows in Cyprus train for a big test.

When I turned 40, I did a fun travel piece for the Observer asking whether people my age could have fun in the Cypriot tourist resort of Ayia Napa, a renowned party town.

This is a quirky health feature for the Daily Mail on why drinking donkey milk could be good for you.

I meet Iran’s “living martyrs’ still crippled by Saddam Hussein’s mustard gas attacks:

Greek and Turkish Cypriots remove the divide on Nicosia’s main shopping street that kept them apart for nearly half a century.

Here’s a story in The Telegraph on how a popular squeaky cheese – halloumi – is helping to bridge the divide between Cyprus’s estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities:

A Christmas story for the Times on how illegal bird trapping in Cyprus could be responsible for fewer festive robins being spotted in British gardens.

Britain’s longest and most bizarre refugee drama: several families of Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish refugees marooned on a British military base in Cyprus for over 16 years.