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Blight of an island

Sunday, 30 October 2022, 10:11 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

Living in Malta on clear days we can see at a distance the huge bulk of Mount Etna across the sea. And on clear nights we can also glimpse the lights of the Sicilian littoral. That's where our...

Europe’s first Window of Chinese Books established in Malta

Sunday, 30 October 2022, 08:59 Last update: about 5 years ago

On Tuesday, 25 October, guests from China and Malta met online to jointly witness the donation of more than 200 books from Jinling Library of Nanjing to Malta Libraries and the signing of the first...

J. Kenji López-Alt wants you to be a wok star in the kitchen

Monday, 24 October 2022, 07:46 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt suspects there's something in your kitchen that you're not using near enough — the wok. The Asian deep-bottomed pot is his versatile go-to...

Under the surface

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 09:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

The author was born in Ceylon, today Sri Lanka, in 1943 and immigrated to Montreal Canada when he was 19 years old. He is best known for his lyrical The English Patient (1992) which was turned...

A novel approach to OCD

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 07:26 Last update: about 5 years ago Marika Azzopardi

Three psychotherapists from three different countries have come together to write this book, based on experiences and observations made in their own clinics. Dr Padraic Gibson, Dr Claudette Portelli...

News anchor Zain Asher writes uplifting memoir

Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 09:24 Last update: about 5 years ago

"Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable" by Zain E. Asher (Amistad) In recounting her family's struggle to carry on after her father's unexpected death, Zain E....

From the time of mass emigration

Sunday, 16 October 2022, 10:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

This is yet another collection of plays written by the author. The two plays date back to around the same time, the 1960s at the time of the mass emigration from Malta due to endemic poverty and the...

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