Lenie Reedijk was born in the Netherlands.  A juridical translator of English and German by profession, she lived and worked in Berlin in the nineteen eighties.  Here she participated in a book project on Maltese Literature, for which she translated selections of the work by Francis Ebejer.  This brought her to Malta in 1990, where she settled that same year and worked as a teacher and interpreter.  Her special interest in Maltese Prehistory, particularly in the Temple Period, goes back to those years.

Since her return to the Netherlands she has given lectures and seminars on the Maltese Temples both there and in Germany.

Liliana Risiott twieldet l-Imsida fil-31 ta’ Lulju, 1959. Isimha sinonimu mal-mezzi tax-xandir minħabba l-karriera twila tagħha fil-qasam ġurnalistiku, mxandar u dak miktub. Ħadmet ukoll għat-televiżjoni u l-palk. Rebbieħa tal-BPC Award to Journalists for Outstanding Broadcasting (1992).

Xogħlijiet oħra tagħha jinkludu d-dramm f’att wieħed, ‘Toni  Karawetta’; ir-rumanz ‘Punzjetta fi Gwarniċ’ (mhux pubblikat), ‘Meta l-Fula Tnawwar’ (1992); u għandha tliet kotba oħra għall-pubblikazzjoni dalwaqt: ‘Il-Kewkba Dehbija u Stejjer Oħra’; ‘Għall-Magħmul m’hemmx Kunsill’ u ‘Ċinkwina Ħames Ħabbiet’. Tħobb dak kollu li hu Malti; partikolarment il-festi reliġjużi u tradizzjonali, l-għana Maltija u l-mużika u l-arti sagra. Omm ta’ tifla, Katrin.

Lino Briguglio is Professor of Economics at the University of Malta and was formerly head of its Economics Department. He is the Director of the Islands and Small States Institute and of the Gozo Campus of the same University.

Professor Briguglio has published a large number of studies on islands and small states, one of which is a seminal article on the economic vulnerability of small island states in World Development (September 1995). He has also collaborated closely with the Commonwealth Secretariat on projects relating to economic vulnerability, economic resilience and competitiveness of small states, leading to the publication of four books on these subjects.

21 ta’ Settembru 1938 – 14 ta’ Novembru 2014

Lorna Vassallo (B.A., L.P., M.Jur.) graduated as a legal procurator and specialized in European law, but went on to embrace the teaching career in state schools. Along the years she gained prolific experience in the teaching of the main European languages (English, Italian, French and German) and also obtained basic certification in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. In 2011 she did a postgraduate conference interpreting course at the University of Malta. Presently employed as Administrative Manager at the Cooperatives Board. she is also a licensed tourist guide and a regular newspaper columnist. In the past she also worked as a radio and television producer/presenter.

Lydia Sciriha is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Malta, where she has been teaching sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and other related areas since 1987. For a number of years, she also directed the University’s Language Laboratory Complex. She has authored and co-authored eleven books, and has edited two journal issues. Professor Sciriha is a former Commonwealth scholar and Commonwealth fellow and has taught in Australia, Cyprus, Germany and Luxembourg.

Marc Galea is a Maltese guitarist and has been teaching guitar for these last thirteen years. Marc started learning classical guitar at the age of 11 but immediately exchanged it for an electric guitar after hearing Brian May play. Following a trip to Cardiff to see Joe Satriani in concert when he was 16 years old, he decided to take up guitar professionally and set about studying with intent and practicing with his first serious bands. During 2001 he held a teaching post in a state school in Malta and in that same year he produced and presented the innovative and successful TV series B’Sitt Kordi (with six strings) on Local Television where he taught basic guitar and interviewed established guitarists in Malta. In 2002 Marc went to the UK to study with leading guitar tutor John Mizarolli. John inspired him to further his studies and in 2005 he graduated with an LLCM TD Diploma from the RGT as a professional guitar tutor and an FLCM diploma in performance.

Since meeting Maltese jazz guitarist Sandro Zerafa and taking lessons with him, Marc started delving into jazz styles. He attended a Berklee University summer jazz course in Perugia, Italy in 2005 where he encountered renowned jazz guitarist, and future tutor and collaborator, Luigi Tessarollo.

Mario Cassar graduated B.Ed. (Hons), M.A. (Maltese) and Ph.D. (Maltese Studies) at the University of Malta; his theses were respectively entitled Ir-Rumanz Malti fis-Snin Tletin (‘The Maltese Novel in the Thirties’), Mudelli Immaġinattivi fil-Poeżija Romantika Maltija (‘Imaginative Models in Maltese Romantic Poetry’), and Maltese Surnames: The Sicilian and Italian Connections. At present he is a Senior Lecturer II within the Department of Maltese at the University of Malta Junior College. In the period 1992–94 he was president of the Għaqda tal-Malti (Università) – ‘The (University) Maltese Society’, and was involved in the organization of a series of literary seminars and writing skills courses. He is the author of Ir-Reqqa tal-Kitba (‘The Exactitude of Writing’, Malta, 2000), a manual of Maltese grammar and orthography; The Surnames of the Maltese Islands: An Etymological Dictionary (Malta, 2003); and several critical essays and papers related to the study of Maltese onomastics, language, and literature. He has also co-authored Il-Qari tal-Letteratura (‘The Reading of Literature’, Malta, 2009) and L’ultima città musulmana: Lucera (Bari, 2012). He is a member of the Akkademja tal-Malti (‘The Maltese Academy’) and of ICOS (International Council of Onomastic Sciences).

Mario Cassar twieled fil-5 ta’ Awissu 1962 minn Espedito Cassar u Ursolina, imwielda Zarb. Hu miżżewweġ lil Deborah, imwielda Caruana, u għandu tifla, Katrina. Joqgħod Ħal Luqa fejn trabba u għex.

Mario Cutajar twieled fl-1958.  Dan hu l-ħames ktieb tiegħu u t-tieni wieħed li ħareġ f’din is-Sensiela.  Cutajar studja fl-Universita` ta’ Malta u dik ta’ Leicester fl-Ingilterra.  Iggradwa fl-istudji soċjali u l-management.  Dam ħafna artikolista regolari fuq il-ġurnali tal-Union Print.  Okkupa karigi fil-Partit Laburista u għal diversi snin kien uffiċjal tal-General Workers’ Union li tagħha kien ġie elett ukoll Deputat Segretarju Ġenerali.  Huwa ħadem fil-management kemm fis-settur privat u anki fis-settur pubbliku.

Mario Gauci studied at the University of Malta for a Bachelor’s Degree in Libraries, Information and Archives Studies in 2010 and a Masters in Arts and Baroque Studies in 2013. He has been serving as Senior Assistant Archivist for the Metropolitan Cathedral Archives in Mdina since March 2005. Prior to his current position, Mario worked for the Government Libraries Department. His scholarly work specializes in ecclesiastical archives and processed significant institutional documents and personal papers of Maltese scholars. He took keen interest in the restructuring programme of the Cathedral Archives and was appointed ex-ufficio member and secretary of the Cathedral Archives Management Board.

His work entails, the administrative and managerial, preservation, cataloguing and classification of the archival documentation. He monitored the digitization project of the Archdiocese of Malta and collaborated with the Malta Study Centre of the Hill Monastic Library for Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. He promotes and facilitates effective collaboration between foreign scholarly institutions and the Cathedral Archives. Mr Gauci was offered a brief scholarship in the Archivio di Stato of Bologna 2011 and participated in a conference organized by Archivo della Congregazione per la Dottrina delle Fede at the Vatican in May 2018.