A Letter to Noora
Published in Babelmed | 08/01/2009 From: Adrian GrimaTuesday, 30 December, 2008 Dear Noora, I’m writing to you from the emptiness of my shame, the emptiness that is filled with the…
Category: Comment
The World in Alphabetical Order
Published in Babelmed As I prepare to write this piece about Péter Zilahy’s ingenious picture dictionary for the over fives, Le Monde announces the arrest, after over a decade defying…
Decolonization and Memory in Algeria
ZNET | June 3, 2008 When we walk past the security guards and enter the compound of the Centre Culturel Français d’Alger in rue Hassani Issad I can’t help feeling…
Malta elections: the return of Lawrence Gonzi
Babelmed | 13/03/2008 The governing Nationalist Party received 49.33% of the national vote while the Malta Labour Party gained 48.8%. Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party received 1.3% whilst the…
Just Peace
Babelmed 14/12/2007 This was meant to be a Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East but the uncomfortable, divisive word “Just” sitting next to camera-pretty “Peace” must have…
A “Prophetic Call” for Fair Trade
Babelmed – 05/04/2007 A survey carried out in 1997 found that awareness of fair trade as a concept in the Mediterranean member states of the EU was very low and…
The Mediterranean as Segregation
ZNET | Babelmed | 13/02/2007 “I define myself as Tunisian, Arab, Muslim, and migrant. There is also another very important element in the constitution of my identity and that is…
Controlling Civil Society
ZNET | Babelmed | 29/01/2007 The Sunday paper Malta Today described 2006 as “the year of the rise of civil society.” Common people and activists were “clearly angry,” it wrote,…
