[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 36 (Monday, March 19, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E388]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




IN HONOR OF BARBARA CORNWALL LYSSARIDES, AUTHOR OF MY OLD ACQUAINTANCE: 
                          YESTERDAY IN CYPRUS

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 19, 2001

  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to 
Ms. Barbara Cornwall Lyssarides, a Cypriot-American journalist whose 
recently published book, My Old Acquaintance: Yesterday in Cyprus, 
details the recent history of the island of Cyprus. Ms. Lyssarides will 
be honored on the evening of March 7, 2001 by Cyprus's Consulate 
General to the United States, Mr. Vasilis Philippou, at a book signing 
presentation at the Consulate General's office in New York.
  Ms. Lyssarides is an accomplished journalist whose previous books 
include a first-hand account of guerrilla warfare in the Portuguese 
colonies of Africa, which was published in New York and London. When 
the National Organization of Cypriot Struggle (EOKA) launched a 
rebellion for independence from British rule on October 1, 1960, Ms. 
Lyssarides covered it as a young staff reporter and feature writer for 
the daily Times of Cyprus.
  Ms. Lyssarides has spent much of her life living abroad, mostly in 
Cyprus. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and received her degree in 
history from Wayne State University, where she also studied journalism. 
Throughout her career, Ms. Lyssarides has traveled all over the world, 
serving as a reporter for numerous foreign newspapers.
  In her introduction to My Old Acquaintance, Ms. Lyssarides writes:

       Over the millennia, Cyprus has been sold, colonized, 
     inherited, borrowed, lent, defeated, delivered, neglected, 
     isolated, annexed, mis-ruled, sometimes well-governed, often 
     betrayed . . . To me, it is astonishing that its people have 
     survived at all, not only physically but with religion intact 
     for almost 2,000 years, language even longer, and with 
     customs and beliefs little changed after centuries of foreign 
     impact.

  Mr. Speaker, the nation of Cyprus has been beset by instability for 
too long. Barbara Cornwall Lyssarides eloquently describes her own 
relationship with this troubled island and I salute her for her 
admirable efforts to bring attention to her adopted homeland and this 
extremely important international issue.

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