Famagusta: gazing at the past through AI

An acknowledged Greek painter and a good friend of mine, Sylvana Samartzidou, recently portrayed me gazing at the past, next to a classic Cyprus fishing boat grounded on the golden beach of Famagusta, while I was trying to understand how we managed to transform a vibrant, small Mediterranean town into a lifeless carcass, a prey to the elements of nature.

Over the last 50 years, I have made many unsuccessful attempts to formulate a satisfactory response to the question of how we managed to...