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The book's twenty essays describe what it was like growing up as an outsider in Cyprus during the difficult years of the EOKA uprising against British colonial rule. Born in the US, Harry A. Mavromatis moved to Cyprus with his parents and spent his adolescence on the island. LOST EDENS provides informative, insightful biographies of several of the island's important personalities, including Archbishop Makarios, as well as of some of the less prominent people the author met and interacted with while there. The volume concludes with perceptive comments about the causes of the Cyprus conflict and the author's hopes for the future.

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Harry A. Mavromatis was born in the US, and obtained his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from Princeton University. He worked at the University of Sussex in the U.K, the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, the University of Tubingen in Germany, the University of Michigan in the US, the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, at NASA, etc. Dr. Mavromatis first went to Cyprus with his parents when he was 10, and spent his adolescent years growing up on the island. He has published four books and over 100 articles in refereed physics journals, and was recently appointed Emeritus Professor at the American University of Beirut. During his free time he writes short essays and poetry.

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