Cypriot Nationalisms in Context: History, Identity and Politics

Thekla Kyritsi is a PhD candidate in Political Science and History at Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences in Athens, Greece. Her published work includes research on women and the early Cypriot press, gender history and the Political Left, as well as contemporary research on gender inequalities. She is a founding member of the Cypriot NGO “Center for Gender Equality and History”.

Nikos Christofis is an Assistant Professor at the Center of Turkish Studies and at the College of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in Greek, Turkish, English and Spanish. He is the co-author of From the French to the Turkish ’68: The Left and the Radicalization of the Student Movement and edited, and contributed to, Cyprus, the Left and (Post)Colonialism (both in Greek). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal New Middle Eastern Studies.