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The pirate from Malta

Sunday, 6 July 2025, 09:40 Last update: about 6 days ago Noel Grima

It was All Souls' Day 1755 and the blind priest had just intoned the Kyrie Eleison in the great cathedral of Seville, the great temple that had been a mosque during the time of the Muslims, when the...

Rising from the fallen rain

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 09:19 Last update: about 20 days ago

Sometimes our most fragile moments create the ideal conditions for creativity to take root and flourish. And indeed ix-xita tinżel rasha 'l isfel, Francesco Grech's second poetry collection...

Human nature explained to humans

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 09:02 Last update: about 20 days ago Noel Grima

Born in 1959, to Jewish parents, Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power and seduction. He has written seven international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The...

‘They do not just learn differently, they are different’

Sunday, 22 June 2025, 07:00 Last update: about 20 days ago

Born into a world of hyperconnectivity and AI, Generation Alpha faces neurological and emotional realities no curriculum was designed for. In her new book, Generation Alpha in the Classroom: New...

A lifetime, with regrets

Sunday, 4 May 2025, 09:11 Last update: about 3 months ago Noel Grima

When I joined Il-Hajja, the Church's Maltese language daily paper in July 1972, John Inguanez was the news editor, or at least acted as one, because things were rather fluid there. The paper had...

The master story-teller

Sunday, 4 May 2025, 09:09 Last update: about 3 months ago

Joe Friggieri has been writing and publishing literature for almost six decades. He has always seemed to enjoy shorter forms of writing. Most of his poetry is short, and includes volumes of the...

A freckle in time

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 10:07 Last update: about 4 months ago

What happens when the freckles on a girl's body suddenly begin to glow with strange green lights? The doors open to a fantastic universe poised to carve out its own unique place in Maltese literature....

Peter Mayo’s culture, power and education

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 09:10 Last update: about 4 months ago

Prof. Raphael Vella One could argue that another sociological study that asserts that education and the arts are inherently political is unnecessary. Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron's...

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