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Damascus

Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 09:36 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Nothing could be further from the St Paul of the altars dripping silver, the red damask, the milling canons and monsignors of our 10th February celebration than this very raw book. We have grown...

In defence of the Palestinians

Tuesday, 23 March 2021, 13:16 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Twelve years ago, the author was an up-and-coming journalist, who had already made a name for himself among the new Labour Party media with a string of books to his name, mainly on partisan...

A Libyan exile in Siena

Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 14:35 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The author was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then Cairo. His father, Jaballa, was a vocal critic of Muammar Gaddafi and he was working in the...

Anger at neoliberalism

Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 10:49 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The author was born in Malta but after a period of studying and teaching in Malta, has spent most of his adult life in Canada where he held various professorships in a number of universities...

Publication on rising sea-levels supported by APS Bank

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 12:33 Last update: about 6 years ago

APS Bank has proudly supported the "The Sinking Shore", the work of research on climate change and the impacts of sea-level rise by environmental scientist Dr Ivan X. Gatt. The book contains an...

The wreckage of deindustrialisation

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 12:23 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

In 2018 Nicolas Mathieu won the Prix Goncourt, France's most famous literary honour, for this, his second novel. Starting in 1992, it unfolds at two-year intervals, over four summers in a valley...

‘Vespri’ by Trevor Żahra translated by Clare Vassallo

Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 14:11 Last update: about 6 years ago

What do you do when you're stuck in traffic? Fiddle with the car radio? Listen to the banter of DJs or ... study the driver of the car next to you until you get obsessed with her and end up following...

A life far from ordinary

Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 14:09 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

At 97 years of age, one would expect that the life of Albert Ganado has been a very fulfilling life. But after reading this autobiography of sorts one is filled with admiration that one person could...

The lying life of adults

Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 09:42 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The name is fictitious, a pseudonym. In an age of self-promotion, Elena Ferrante keeps her real identity a closely-guarded secret. In 2016, Time magazine included Ferrante among the 100 most...

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