Henry Frendo

Who is Henry Frendo?

Prof. Henry Joseph Frendo has been a Professor of Modern History at the University of Malta since 1992. He is in fact the only senior professor at this University. Frendo was also previously employed with the UNHCR, and was stationed in such places as Switzerland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Egypt and Papua New Guinea. His main areas of research and interest are imperialism, nationalism, decolonization, postcolonialism, journalism, migration and ethnicity, in Central and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle-East and North Africa, especially since c. 1798. He is also much interested in bilingualism and the relationship of language to nationality, culture and statehood.