Tales of EXILE
On February 5, 1939, the French authorities opened the border to the exiles concentrated on the other side. What follows are testimonies of those who experienced the tragedy
Aamer Anwar
The lawyer and expert in human rights gives his take on independence and the trial of Catalan leaders
Aamer Anwar
The lawyer and expert in human rights gives his take on independence and the trial of Catalan leaders
Full steam ahead for Barça
Each month, the presenter of El Punt Avui TV’s The Week in Football, Barney Griffiths, casts his eye over the fortunes of Catalonia’s top flight football clubs. This month it is once more the turn of Barcelona FC, who lead La Liga and are still going strong in the Cup and Champions League
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The Catalan footprint in space
The Polytechnic University of Catalonia launches the CubeCat-1 nanosatellite into orbit carrying six experiments as part of an ongoing project designed and developed by students and researchers at the institution’s NanoSat Lab
The ’QUEEN of SOUL’
March 1 to 17 sees the 18th edition of the Black Music Festival, which this year pays tribute to the ’Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin, and with concerts not only in Girona but all over Catalonia
TOM SHARPE’S CATALONIA TODAY PERFORMANCE HOMAGE TO TOM SHARPE
We look back fondly at the satirical novelist, who was a resident of Catalonia, and his connection with the magazine
English hour On El Punt Avui TV
Going native with Neil Stokes
Catalan connections with Marcela Topor
Small talk with Nicole Millar
The Week in Football with Barney Griffiths
Our finest hour with Matthew Tree
Opinion
random thoughts
Terry Parris / Writer
from the editor
Marcela Topor
News from El Punt Avui
My space
Catalans abroad
Marc Femenia Nobell. catalonia today. contact@cataloniatoday.cat
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Features
Interview
Aamer Anwar
The lawyer and expert in human rights gives his take on independence and the trial of Catalan leaders
Deepak Daswani
Hacker and cybersecurtiy expert
Iolanda Batallé
Head of the Ramon Llull Institute
Books
Food & Wine
Direkte Boqueria
(Barcelona)
The Net
The Eye
MWC, Barcelona 2019
Photo: Oriol Duran
Pessebre exhibition, Barcelona 2018
Photo: J. Losada
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Cinema
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