Spring brings with it many things in Malta – a turn of milder weather, Easter, and – of course – the ever controversial spring hunting season. This week, in what may be seen as...

Community is our survival. ‘Community’, as the opportunity for nurturing human contact, is essential to human wellbeing.  Even though communal life can feel so ordinary that its...

The daily Covid-19 figures remain high, and it does not look like they will be decreasing any time soon. While it might be a bit too early to say whether the recently introduced measures are working,...

The world is going through many difficulties, this is no secret. This pandemic has turned the world as we know it upside down. The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the digital transformation and the...

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...

Last week, The Malta Independent on Sunday revealed that Covid-19 contact tracing was, give or take, nine days behind. This information came from people working in contact tracing and case...

The tragic murder of Sarah Everard in London has sent shockwaves through the UK, and ignited a renewed debate about violence against women on a global scale. On March 3, Sarah Everard – a...

As we pass the first anniversary since the first Corona Virus case was detected in Malta, it is opportune to have a look at how we performed as a country during the last year, a year like no other....

If there is any political life in Russia today, its driver is Alexei Navalny. Hundreds of thousands of people, putting themselves at risk of being beaten by police officers or at the very least losing...

Feminism: This word is thrown around everywhere nowadays; T-shirts, handbags and protest picket signs. It's unavoidable. But the concept of feminism comprises a multitude of things, too many of which...