IL-MALTI
xcii, no. 92 (2019, but 2021)
Edited by George Farrugia
Published by L-Akkademja tal-Malti and Klabb Kotba Maltin
With the Akkademja tal-Malti forc
People’s movements and direct contact between Italians and illiterate Maltese during the times of the Knights of St John were key to the absorption of Italian words in the Maltese language. A more recent influx of Italians is now unlikely to have a similar impact
Manwel Dimech: 100 years of amnesia. And defiance
100 years after Dimech’s death in exile in Egypt, JAMES DEBONO examines his legacy in a country that was more willing to commemorate Prince Philip’s passing than the cruel repudiation of Malta’s first true democrat
27 April 2021, 7:28am
by James Debono
Manwel Dimech, the first Maltese political activist to advocate for women’s suffrage, the foundation of a Maltese republic, a welfare state, and official recognition of the Maltese language, died in POW camp in Alexandria, Egypt on 17 April 1921, seven years after his arrest and exile by the British colonial government for “agitating” Dockyard workers and for holding anti-clerical and socialist principles.