I wish to thank Dr Kamal Chaouachi for his interest in Malta’s history. However, I must point out that in his contribution of Sunday 16 June he misinterpreted me. First of all I do not have a “thesis” ...

Albert Borg of the Kunsill tal-Malti has expressed the valid point that our Maltese language suffered a break with its mother Arabic tongue in 1249, when the Maltese Muslims were expelled from Malta ...

The General Workers' Union announced that over the past few days, the Maltese-Arabic community within the Union held an annual general conference during which the committee was appointed. The ...

Until relatively recently, the study of language in Malta – and not in Malta alone – had been bedevilled by a myriad traps, deceptions and snares – mostly contrived by amateurs who do not know their ...

With reference to Dr David A. Borg’s letter “Malta and her language” (TMIS, 4 September), the fact that Maltese is an Arabic dialect cannot be disputed. Before I studied and mastered Arabic, I was ...