The Malta Cross Music Competition, in collaboration with C. Bechstein Centrum, is set to return for its third edition in 2026, reaffirming Malta’s growing reputation as a hub for international musical and artistic exchange. The competition will take place between April 20 and 22, hosted at the Malta Society of Arts, with the finals held at the Manoel
Malta and Holy War , by Carmel Cassar, published by Kite Group, 2025 By comparison with the Ottoman and Spanish armed behemoths, a rock barely 120 square miles tiny may seem a historical irrelevance, an inaudible yawn in a raging hurricane. And yet it was to play a defining role, punching well above its weight. Historians have, so far, been generous
Siege of Malta 1940-1942 by Anthony Rogers is published by Greenhill Books, January 2020. Carlo Spartaco Capogreco’s latest publication, I campi di Salò: Internamento ebraico e Shoah in Italia (2025), revisits the history of Jewish internment in the territories controlled by the Repubblica Sociale Italiana (RSI) between 1943 and 1945. Building on his
An ambitious war memorial conceived in the aftermath of World War I, but never realised, has been brought back into public discourse through a new immersive video-documentary and scholarly publication by Conrad Thake that reassess the artistic vision of Antonio Sciortino. While Sciortino is widely recognised as one of Malta’s most important sculptors
