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My title is an adaptation of Pope Benedict XVI’s recent address to Malta, where he referred to St Paul’s (supposed) shipwreck on Malta. The Acts he quotes ‘Nevertheless, we must run aground on some island’ (Acts 27, 26) construct the running aground on Malta as a blessing for those shipwrecked. I introduce myself as a 55 year old Maltese woman; a person who feels that she is often stuck by being on this small island in the Mediterranean, at the same time as recognising that without it, she would be drowning. It has provided a raison d’être for my work, my social and political commitments and my most lasting affective relationships.
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Darmanin, M. (2011). On a Hard Rock. In: Sultana, R.G. (eds) Educators of the Mediterranean… …Up Close and Personal. Comparative and International Education, vol 9. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-681-6_17
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