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Award-winning cellist to appear with MPO

Monday, 7 November 2016, 16:12 Last update: about 8 years ago

The truly impeccable Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, who causes a sensation wherever he goes, is to reappear in Malta. He will grace the stage of Teatru Manoel during the Dvorak & Elgar...

Church on historic resistance hill turned into a sanctuary

Monday, 7 November 2016, 16:10 Last update: about 8 years ago

Joe C. Cordina   A historic church involved in the uprising of the Maltese against the French 1798-1800, has just been elevated to the grade of Sanctuary. Built in 1630 in the area...

Irvin Vella Investigatur Virtwali: Il-Kaz tas-Serqiet Strambi

Monday, 7 November 2016, 16:09 Last update: about 8 years ago

Irvin's favourite packet of snacks, Spintzies, is the target of a band of burglars. They break into supermarkets, cleverly blackening security cameras, leave their mark, but never steal anything....

Spin of spin

Monday, 7 November 2016, 16:08 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

The title of this slim book is rather misleading, for, as the author himself admits, its aim is not to prove that the Melita of the Acts of the Apostles is indeed Malta or Mljet (part of Croatia in...

Revisiting Ottoman history in ‘Storja’ 2015

Monday, 7 November 2016, 16:07 Last update: about 8 years ago

Dr Simon Mercieca   This year's edition of Storja, the Journal of the History Students' Association at the University of Malta has undertaken to analyze what can be defined as a...

Sicily and Malta in 18th-19th century in new Cassola book

Monday, 7 November 2016, 16:06 Last update: about 8 years ago

Specific commercial, political and social relations between Malta and Sicily between 1770 and 1860 are the subject of investigation in Arnold Cassola's latest book entitled Malta-Sicily - People,...

Teresa

Monday, 7 November 2016, 16:05 Last update: about 8 years ago

Bestselling Australian author, Deborah Abela, grew up listening to the story of how her father was born in a Valletta shelter during one of the heaviest bombing attacks on Malta in the Second World...

Figments of fancy or veiled reality?

Monday, 7 November 2016, 15:56 Last update: about 8 years ago Marika Azzopardi

Those who have seen them claim they truly do exist, those who think they might have seen them doubtfully blame it on tricks of the eye, and those who have never ever seen them will wave it all away...

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