On Thursday, August 4, in St Julian’s Hilton Grandmaster Suite, Malta was treated to a performance from rock legend extraordinaire Steve Hackett, former g
This Friday, May 7, at 6 pm, John B. Saliba, a 94-year-old Maltese-American who lives in New York, will be talking to anthropologist Michael Deguara in English about his time at the dockyard in the 1940s and his vivid memories of World War II.
The talk is being hosted by the
Oral Traditions project of the Department of Maltese at the University of Malta which is supported by the University s Research Fund and
Klabb Kotba Maltin.
Saliba, who is originally from Żabbar and now lives in New York, will share his experience of working in the Dockyard between 1941 and 1949, as well as memories from the Second World War.
Threat to Ġgantija: object now
Dawn Adrienne Saliba: We need to send a message to the Planning Authority that their task is to protect this nation’s land and ancestral heritage not facilitate those who would destroy it
4 March 2021, 11:36am
The Ġgantija Temples, originating circa 3,600-3,200 BCE, are among the oldest and most majestic freestanding buildings in the world. They are beautiful in scope, sublime in stature, and form a focal icon of Malta’s archaeological and artistic heritage.
It is beyond shocking that any developer would have the audacity to put forth a proposal to build 31 flats and 20 underground garages near the ancient temple. Such a monstrosity threatens both visitors’ enjoyment of the prehistoric area and obstructs archaeological research into the civilisation that erected these magnificent edifices.