Unlike places like the Emirates, which generally promote themselves as hyper-modern hubs—versions of Las Vegas in the Persian Gulf—Malta does not brand itself as the place of ultramodern sky-scrapers. Instead, the country is portrayed through images that highlight its idyllic Mediterranean location, rural lifestyle or its ‘glorious past’.
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Society & Politics
What Does it Mean to Be a Foreigner in Malta?
Although they are uniformly referred to as “foreigners”, foreign nationals receive contrasting treatment, depending on their social status and nationality.
Environment
To Ban or Not to Ban: is That the Question?
Another referendum on Spring hunting will not resolve Malta’s top conservation conflict.
Education & Opportunity
University – the Ivory Tower is Part of Society, not Removed from It
Universities and especially the humanities, whose use for job markets and economic growth tends to be called into question, are often asked to justify their existence and their use of tax payers’ money for seemingly non-useful endeavours. How about turning the argument around?
Sexuality & Gender
Grrrl* Gangs Against Street Harassment
The growing discrimination, harassment, attacks and assaults are not bound to one social category (such as gender) but to multiple at once—age, race, class. Queer-feminist street art is a response to such harassment in public space.
Panem et Circenses
“The Shape of Water” and Disability A Breath of Fresh Air, a Repetition of Stereotypes or Something in Between?
“The fact that the film is set in the 1950s enables the film-maker to bring in overt examples of ableism, sexism, racism, classism and homophobia.”
#Technology Matters
Machines for the Evasion of Moral Responsibility
Algorithms as technical entities also function as the symbolic base of an ideology that abets thoughtlessness and facilitates the evasion of responsibility.
Heart + Mind = Harmony
My Passport
Poem by Stephen Cachia.
The Good, The Bad and The Funny
Breaking: Nationalist Party Renames Itself Internationalist
Easter confessions of Malta’s top politicians and influential figures.
