Nicosia Beyond Barriers

Alev Adil is a performance artist-poet who has appeared at the Tate Britain, British Museum and in countless international locations, from Azerbaijan to Finland. Her poetry has been translated into eight languages. Adil is also a literary critic for The Times Literary Supplement, UK. Aydin Mehmet Ali has worked as an arts and education adviser to various bodies, including the London Mayor and Local Education Authorities. Her latest publication is Forbidden Zones: Short Stories & Others. She is the founder of Literary Agency Cyprus (LAC). Bahriye Kemal is a research associate and lecturer at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. Her research engages with Cypriot literary and cultural studies, postcolonial partition discourse, Ottoman and British imperialism, and spatial theory. Kemal is an active member of Literary Agency Cyprus, Kent Refugee Help, Seenaryo and Women Now. Maria Petrides is an independent writer, editor and translator. She has been a writer in residence in NYC, Nicosia, Istanbul, Helsinki, Rio de Janeiro, and Geneva. She is the translator of Wow (Patakis 2016) and To Teach the Journey (Saita 2016), and the author of A Book of Small Things (2016) and editor of Semiotics (Cambridge Scholars, 2017).