ABSTRACT
For thousands of years, the Eastern Mediterranean has been a contested area. People
(s) have moved within it and came from the outside and settled, continuously
displacing already established communities and being displaced in turn. This paper is
intended to analyse some of the memories associated with more recent unsettlings in
the Eastern Mediterranean and more specifically with Cyprus.1 The data used in the
following stem from an Oral History (henceforth OH) project conducted from 2009
to 2012 in Cyprus and partly funded by the European Union. The so-called SHARP
project aimed at adding its voice(s) to the cultural conversations taking place across
the island by making them public.
