Forget the 50 Civilians
COUNTERPUNCH | 13/8/2006 While the outgoing Israeli ambassador to Malta claimed that Israel’s military response to the Hizbollah “act of war” had been “less than proportionate,” Halim Wannous spoke about…
Author: Adrian Grima
Rakkmu, Writing Poetry to Tell Stories
Babelmed | Karsten Xuereb | 20/03/2006 On 1st March 2006 Adrian Grima launched his third collection of poetry, Rakkmu (embroidery), to an audience of readers, writers and friends at the…
On Becoming a Cultural Wasteland
Babelmed – 31/03/2006 Adrian Grima meets the Maltese jazz guitarist Sandro Zerafa before he returns to multicultural Paris. If Sandro were appointed Minister for Culture in Malta what would he…
Endless Forms, Endless Relationships
Babelmed | 05/01/2006 Being open to different art forms apart from one’s own is crucial to the further development of an artist, ” says the young Maltese visual artist Anabel…
The Dislocation of Being Human, and Cypriot
Babelmed | 11/10/2005 The Cypriot-born cosmopolitan writer and academic Stephanos Stephanides has finally published his first collection of poetry, Blue Moon in Rajasthan and Other Poems. Here to talks to…
Birds of Passage
Babelmed | 16/09/2005 Birds of Passage by Maltese-Australian author Lou Drofenik is a rare novel about Maltese migration to Australia, but it is also an equally rare account that celebrates,…
Re-Thinking the Mediterranean
Counterpunch| Babelmed | Omar Barghouti, Adrian Grima | 16/09/2005 Rather than succumb to the “clash” temptation by reinforcing “defensive self-pride, ” it is time to come to terms with “the…
A Mediterranean and a Jew
Babelmed | 23/06/2005 Jack Arbib describes himself as an “ingénieur sans frontières” who peddles his merchandise in the ports of call of the Levant, trying to understand the idioms of…
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