/library/oar/handle/123456789/127783 Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:23:52 GMT 2025-11-18T23:23:52Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/127899 Title: The Gozo Observer : Issue 48 : 2024 Abstract: 1/ Editorial: Accessible and Safe Open Public Areas - Lino Briguglio 2/ Medically-related Sculptures in Gozo - Charles Savona-Ventura 3/ Trachoma in Gozo (1920-50) - Mario Saliba 4/ The Attack on Gozo of 1551 and its Effects on the Gozo Population – Part II - Luca Curmi 5/ A Gozitan Documented in 12th Century Norman Sicily - Simon Salafia 6/ Gozo: The Identity of an Island Region - Alfred Grech 7/ What Makes Destination Gozo Different - Joe Muscat 8/ The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Decision-Making of Gozitan SMEs - Jan Luca Gatt 9/ Remembering Gozitan Poet Ġorġ Pisani (1909–1999) - Charles Bezzina 10/ Book Review: Tajr tal-Karti. Antoloġija ta’ Poeżiji - Geoffrey G. Attard 11/ Book Review: The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo. The Epigraphic Evidence - Joseph Calleja 12/ From Our Readers 13/ Recent Activities at the University of Malta – Gozo Campus - Joseph Calleja Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/127899 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/127898 Title: Book review : Tajr tal-Karti. Antoloġija ta’ Poeżiji Abstract: During the last decade or so, Gozitan lawyer and poet Alfred Grech has published a number of anthologies of poetry which have gradually established him as one of the island’s main contemporary poets, and one of the most prolific. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/127898 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/127897 Title: Book review : The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo. The Epigraphic Evidence Abstract: How did the Maltese and Gozitans fare under Roman occupation? How were they treated by the new masters? And what did they do to appease them? What changes did the new political situation bring about in their lives? How did they respond and/ or adapt? Was their religious identity in any way affected? How did they manoeuvre their loyalties to their own benefits? And how did they manage their own domestic affairs within the new political set-up? Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/127897 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/127896 Title: Editorial : accessible and safe open public areas Abstract: The occupation of public space by private interests has mushroomed in Malta and Gozo. This undesirable development is to a large extent the result of the so-called business-friendly governance, exacerbated by lack of enforcement of existing laws and regulations, including those covered by the Policy and Standards for Outdoor Catering Areas on Public Open Space. The Marsalforn and Xlendi seafronts in Gozo are cases in point. This is creating the impression that there is a tacit and undeclared stratagem of putting business interests before those of the common citizen – business friendliness gone too far. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/127896 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z