
By Flora Alexandrou
As scholars remind us, national identity is not a fixed concept, nor does it have a single agreed interpretation. It shifts with time, place and circumstance, and what seem like solid markers are often just “provisional stabilities” concealing a fractured and fluid reality.
In Cyprus, nothing shows this fluidity better than a basketball game. At the EuroBasket 2025 in Limassol, some politicians entered as so-called Cypriots and