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,…
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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…
Juifs et Maltais de Tripoli
Babelmed | 08/06/2005 Jack Arbib se décrit lui-même comme un “passeur de frontières” qui colporte ses mots dans les ports du Levant, essayant de comprendre les idiomes de la Méditerranée.…
Boycotting Academia
Part One | The Colonial Narrative Babelmed | 07/06/2005 A year ago, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), supported by nearly sixty of the…
Damascus Gate
Babelmed | 17/05/2005 We meet outside the magnificent Damascus Gate of East Jerusalem in Israeli-occupied Palestine. Noora Baker and El-Funoun were invited to Malta by Inizjamed in October 2004 and…
They are Us
Babelmed | 06/05/2005 The migrants’ “deep desire” to get to Europe and to “participate, ” says the acclaimed British writer Caryl Phillips, “is about as fine a compliment as anybody…
Anonymous in the Mediterranean
Babelmed | 31/03/2005 While people in desperate search of a present, and perhaps a future, continue to die a horrifying, anonymous death in the waters of the Mediterranean, Malta has…
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