Academic Degrees

1986: Licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies (Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies [P.I.S.A.I], ROME). Title of license dissertation: Some meanings of the root kh-l-f according to Zamakhsharî, Râzî and Baidâwî
1987: Licentiate in Theology (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, ROME)
1997: Doctorate in Theology [specialization in Ecumenical Studies] (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas [P.U.S.T.] ROME).  Title of doctoral dissertation: Growth in Koinonia: Baptism and its Relation to the Eucharist in Roman Catholic-Orthodox Perspective, ROME 1997; pp. 210.

Highlights of Career

1987-1990 – Teacher of Arabic at St. Albert the Great College, VALLETTA.
1988 to date – Archbishop’s delegate for Christian-Muslim dialogue.
1988-1993 – Founder/Editor of cultural review KNISJA 2000 (CHURCH 2000)
1991 to date – Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts (Department of Philosophy, Mediterranean Institute, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Studies), Faculty of Theology – University of Malta.
1997 to date – Professor incaricatus in the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, ROME.
1999 to date – Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, ROME.
2005 to date – Member of the Committee for Relations with Muslims of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences.
2007 to date – Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Articles

• ‘Il-Kunċett taż-Żwieġ u l-Familja fl-Islam’ (The concept of Marriage and the Family in Islam), Knisja 2000: 1988 September-October (3), pp. 34-47.
• ‘Il-Laqgha tal-Papa mar-Rappreżentanti mid-Dinja tal-Kultura’ (The Pope’s encounter with representatives from the world of culture’), Knisja 2000: 1990 April-May (12), pp. 63-70.
• ‘Laqgha Ekumenika’ (Ecumenical Encounter), Knisja 2000: 1990 April-May (12), pp. 83-89.
• ‘Djalogu u kerygma: Il-Knisja lejn is-Sena 2000’ (Dialogue and Kerygma’: Towards the year 2000), Knisja 2000: 1992 October-December (23), pp. 21-30.
• ‘Iż-Żwieġ Nisrani-Musulman’ (Christian-Muslim Marriage), Problemi tal-Lum (Today’s Issues): 1995 October, pp. 209-215.
• ‘L-Islam’ (Islam), Knisja 2000: 1997 October-December (43), pp. 45-54.
• ‘It-Talb Ritwali fl-Islam’ (Ritual Prayer in Islam), Knisja 2000 April-June (45), pp. 95-104.
  
• ‘Fides et ratio… according to Averroes’, Knisja 2000: 1999 July-December (50) [Studies in honour of Prof. Peter Paul Zerafa, O.P.], pp. 133-150.
• ‘L-Islam u l-Ktieb Imqaddes tiegħu’ (Islam and its Holy Book), an introductory study to the first Maltese translation of the Qur’an by Edmund Teuma O.F.M. Conv., Centru Animazjoni u Komunikazzjoni, Malta 2000.
• ‘Id-duttrina eskatologika tal-Qur’an’ (The Eschatological Doctrine of the Qur’an), Knisja 2000: 2000 October-December (54), pp. 57-70.
• ‘It-tagħlim tal-Qur’an dwar l-Anġli (Qur’anic teachings concerning the angels), Knisja 2000: 2001 January-March (55), pp. 59-66.
• ‘Inter-religious dialogue and the evangelizing mission of the Church’, Knisja 2000: 2001 (October-December (58), pp. 49-64.
• ‘God and Time: Islamic philosophy and mysticism’, Angelicum 2001 (78), pp. 651-668.
• ‘Religion and Culture: Dialogue in a Secular Society’ Cultures and Faith vol. X: 2002 (1), pp. 22-35.
• ‘Thomas Aquinas and Muslim-Christian Dialogue: An appraisal of De rationibus fidei’, Angelicum: 2001 (80), 177-200.
• 'Thomas Aquinas and the Challenge of Islam: An appraisal of De rationibus fidei, Knisja 2000: 2002 July-September (61), pp. 99-119.
• ‘Islam and Modernity’, Oikonomia: Journal of Ethics and Social Sciences October 2003 (3), pp. 24-36.
• ‘The Distinctio realis between Essence and Existence in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas’, in Anna-Teresa Tymienicka (ed.) The Passions of the Soul in the Metamorphosis of Becoming (Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue Series, vol. I) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (The Netherlands) 2003, pp. 161-170.
• 'Islam and the Challenge of Modernity', Knisja 2000: 2004 October-December (70), pp. 49-78.
• 'Ir-Regola ta' Santu Wistin u l-Ordni tal-Predikaturi' (The Rule of Saint Augustine and the Order of Preachers), Knisja 2000: 2005 April-June (72), pp. 87-89.
• ‘Giudaismo, Cristianesimo, Islam: identità e orientamenti per il dialogo interreligioso’, in Rassegna: Convegni di Cultura Maria Cristina di Savoia, Anno LVII, Lug/Ott. 2006, pp. 240-253.
• ‘Secularism, Pluralism and the Rediscovery of Religion’, in The Family, Law, Religion and Society in the European Union edited by Peter G. Xuereb (Project Co-ordinator), Civil Society Project Report 2006, The European Documentation and Research Centre, Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Malta 2006, pp. 37-44.
• 'The Rediscovery of Religion in a Secular Pluralistic Society, Knisja 2000: 2006 July-September (77), pp. 69-80.
• 'The Presence and Role of Religion in a Consumer Society', in Business Ethics and Religious Values in the European Union and Malta: For a Moral Level Playing Field, edited by Peter G. Xuereb (Project Co-ordinator), Civil Society Project Report 2007, The European Documentation and Research Centre, Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Malta 2007, pp. 45-52.
• “Fondamentalismo religioso e fondamentalismo laicista: il fenomeno dell'islam in Europa”, in G.M. Salvati (ed), Oltre il fondamentalismo e il relativismo: Atti del Convegno, 11-12 maggio 2007, Angelicum University Press, Roma 2007, pp. 79-94.
• "The Issue of Muslim-Christian Dialogue: Nostra Aetate Revisited", Angelicum: 2007(84), 361-382.
  

Books

• Growth in Koinonia: Baptism and its relation to the Eucharist in Roman Catholic-Orthodox Ecumenical Perspective, Rome (1997), pp. iv+210
• Iż-Żwieġ u l-Familja fl-Islam (Marriage and the family in Islam), Pubblikazzjonijiet Dumnikani, Malta 2001, pp. 44.
• Rużarju Bibliku, (Biblical Rosary), Malta 2004, pp. 100.
• L-Ekumeniżmu, Malta 2007, pp.78.