Registrations open for the next Mediterranean Fractures Symposium that will be held in Valletta on the 5-6 November 2015, hosted by the Mediterranean Institute of the University of Malta.
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Six contemporary Libyan artists will show their pieces in Malta with an exhibition that runs from January 6 to February 16.
The idea to create a Euro - Mediterranean hub, both physical and virtual, dedicated to literary exchange and translation, is not a new one.
Book launch of Adrian Grima’s poems translated into French.
The Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival was held from the 30th of August to the 1st of September. Entitled “Dieta kontra l-Kri?i” (Crisis Fare), this year’s edition focused on the economic and social crisis with an allusion to the easy discourse about the Mediterranean diet. Babelmed is publishing a series of interviews that the TV guide of the Times of Malta held with some of the festival’s participants coming from different Euro-Mediterranean countries questioning mainly the role of a writer in a crisis.
In this second series of interviews, journalist Stanley Borg for the Times of Malta goes on questioning writers, poets and translators coming from Spain, Malta, Greece, Libya and Syria on the current social and economic crisis in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
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The 7th Edition of the annual Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival will be held on the 30-31 August, 1 September, Msida Bastion Historic Garden, Floriana, Malta 8.00pm.
The sea is never too far and this ever-present force has shaped much of our history and culture. Rachel Agius (Times of Malta) talks to Jimmy Grima, artistic director of The Rubberbodies Collective in Malta, about the way the sea inspired its upcoming Malta Arts Festival performance.
Parisienne d’adoption, Elizabeth Grech a grandi au milieu de la Méditerranée, éprise de la langue maltaise, elle a traduit plusieurs recueils de poésies vers le français. Entretien.
Albert Gatt gives us a review of European Union Prize for Literature winning book In the Name of the Father and of the son, written by Maltese poet and author, Immanuel Mifsud. The novel has been translated by the Albert Gatt.
Like many other Mediterranean cities, Malta’s capital city, Valletta’s urban landscape is changing constantly. TRANSIT, an urban art project aims to raise awareness on the link between built environment and the social fabric of a city through creativity, artistic expression, urban research and audio-visual documentation.
Interview of Mohamed Salah Omri, writer and Oxford University lecturer participating in the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival taking place on the 8, 9, 10th September.
Maltese Journalist Emma Mattei together with all other contributors has very recently launched “Uncommon”, an uncommon guide to the Islands of Malta and Gozo that Babelmed English recommends.
The arrival of a thousand sub Saharan immigrants in Malta on three boats one of which was sent back by Italy, has re-opened the immigration debate on a densely populated island of 400,000.
Malta’s Lost Voices, The Easly Shellac Recordings (1931-32) Volume 1 will be launched in Malta on the 26th of November 2010. This is the first result of a project on music and memory initiated by Andrew Alamango.
The Kampanja Ktieb Kafé (book café campaign) launched in Malta by Maltese writer Nadia Mifsud Mutschler is all about the promotion of “reading with pleasure” in a Mediterranean country where the percentage of readers is among the lowest in Europe.
Breaking boundaries, challenging conventions and redefining the artistic culture of an island have become trademark qualities of the Malta Summer Arts Festival.
“When I was a kid, I'd tell my mother that I wanted to become an artist. I don't think she took me seriously back then, because this didn't seem like a realistic career (it still doesn't). I loved drawing a lot as a kid, then as a teenager I realised that I could express my inner 'self' in words too.
Mark Mangion has taken it upon himself to promote the contemporary visual arts in Malta. He has worked with innumerable local and foreign artists and established himself as one of the leading participants in the contemporary scene.
The well-known Maltese journalist and cartoonist, Joe Sacco has just published his graphic novel entitled Not in my country dealing with immigration issues in Malta.
The JRS Malta has just published their ANDES (Advocacy Network on Destitute Forced Migrants) report on a pilot study on migrant destitution.
The 5th Edition of the Malta Arts Festival is running between the 1st and the 23rd of July 2010.
In the last decade Malta has seen an influx of boat people making ‘immigration’ one of the hottest debatable issues on the streets. Racism is on the increase and local politicians have shown little political will to facilitate the migrants’ integration within the local society.
A Somali teacher’s journey towards Europe. Travelling from the Southern part of Somalia right up to the Mediterranean shores and finding himself in Malta, Abshir tells his story to Gilbert Calleja.
Good weather, stability and warm- hearted people. All sell well with the tourists but how do young Maltese people live? What do they make out of living on a tiny Euro-Med island with ambitions of becoming an international communications hub? How does it feel to be a young person living in densely populated Malta today?
Work and money seem to be the number one preoccupation of most of the Maltese between twenty to thirty years of age. Subsistence, precarious employment and living up to one’s expectations are however only part of the complexities which define youths in present day Malta. Relationships, single-parenthood, immigration and education are still very much on the agenda.
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