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,…
Caught in a Dirty Business
Babelmed – 06/12/2006 This year’s edition of the Taste the World fair trade festival to be held on Saturday, 9th December at St. James Cavalier in Valletta, will focus on…
New Women
Babelmed | 31/10/2006 Maltese literature has traditionally failed to “tell” the stories of “real” Maltese women. This is a serious lacuna because it is the vision of the writer which…
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…
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…
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