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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...

Żejtun’s Halloween with a difference

Monday, 7 November 2016, 15:53 Last update: about 8 years ago

The Żejtun Organisation to Empower You (ŻOEY) youth organisation once again this Halloween organised a Trick or Treat with difference around the streets of Żejtun. The members of...

Another generous initiative by the Mriehel Secondary School

Monday, 7 November 2016, 15:53 Last update: about 8 years ago

The annual Charity Fun Run, organised by Mriehel Secondary School, St. Theresa College will be held on Friday 18 November 2016. The 27th edition of the Charity Fun Run will raise funds for a number of...

Caravaggio’s bosom friend

Monday, 7 November 2016, 15:49 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

While the National Museum of Fine Arts has closed so as to move to the Auberge d'Italie, another painting gallery has been beautifully restored and re-opened. This is the Cathedral Museum at...

The art of Maltese food

Monday, 31 October 2016, 16:32 Last update: about 8 years ago Marie Benoît

First tell us something about you. A privileged idealist and an ethnic misfit in both countries.   In your latest edition of 'The Food and Cookery of Malta and Gozo' which has just...

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