Unlike so many countries where university students voice their concerns about real social issues, here the protests have always centred about someone daring to take away their parking spaces, or (God forbid) suggesting that stipends should be in the form of a grant, which needs to be paid back
Maltese-American comic book artist and journalist Joe Sacco will be in Malta this November as a guest of the 2022 Malta Book Festival.
Considered one of the wo
Maltese by birth, Sacco grew up in Australia and later in Los Angeles and Portland in the US. His acclaimed works include Palestine, which received the American Book Award in 1996, Footnotes in Gaza (2009), and Safe Area: Goražde
In a sense, then, this next election could almost be regarded as a straight ‘referendum’ between those two conflicting world-visions… which in turn suggests that the ‘victory’ of one side, would also translate into a direct ‘rejection’ of the other