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…
The World in One Evening
Babelmed | 17/03/2005 At a time when the issue of “irregular” immigration has made the Maltese people more aware of the presence of people from various African nations living on…
“Hidden Away from the Public Eye”. Irregular Immigration and the Press
Babelmed | 24/02/2005 100 journalists, editors and columnists writing in the Maltese press have signed an important petition that calls on the Maltese government to allow the press to visit…
