An early night is not an option in this fireworks-crazy country. I went to bed with a book at 9.30 on Friday night and had happily dozed off half an hour later, only to be ...

“Why this is very mid-summer madness”. The main character, Olivia, in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night exclaims after noting that the behaviour and actions of significant...

The truth is Malta has enjoyed a privileged status with neighbouring Libya since 1971, that is only two years after the 1st September Revolution spearheaded by Muammar Gaddafi. ...

“I will change my life, which has been unable to change me,” is a phrase in an Italian song – E dimmi che non vuoi morire (Tell me you don’t want to die), sung by Patty Pravo –...

On my desk at UHM headquarters, I have a small memento a close friend of mine brought me from Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The memento is three small pieces of con...

Only a few hours after the February uprising took place in Libya, I was invited to take part as a panellist in the Joe Grima One TV programme Inkontri to discuss the situation in our neighbour country....

The Ukraine is a relatively unknown quantity for many Western Europeans. Yet this country is the second largest European country with a population of over 46 million predominantly ethnic Orthodox...

It’s hard to concentrate when you’ve been hacked. Not physically I mean. It’s just that J’accuse, the blog - ...

The decisive result of the national referendum on the introduction of divorce legislation in Malta marked a notable advance for Maltese civil rights....

Iraqis who lived through the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein see eerie similarities in the scenes of Libyans parading through Tripoli ripping up ...