I would not choose to write on dark, communist, times, as long as the architects of the Red Holocaust are not yet punished. Moreover, they arrogantly run the country’s politics today. But, as I was reading an article on the life of dissident Klement Islami, the lamenting voice of a young lady ...
Virtyt Gjylbega, a young man from Shkodra, arrived at the labor camp with the rest of the Elbasan prisoners. He was the son of Hamid Gjylbega, a published writer and a philosopher who was also credited by Fulvio Cordignano, as having created a new religion in his works...
The two legendary journalist sisters, Isabela (Islami) Çoçoli and her sister Zamira (Islami) Edwards, have been placed on Administrative Leave at the Voice of America. This announcement rightly spurred the Albanian press to very actively cover the topic for days. They worked there since 1985...
- I was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. What I most remember of my childhood were the hot summers (we don't have now!) the heat melting the tar on the road surface, blistering the paint on doors, the canopies protecting the front doors of houses from the sun. There were also canvas ...
On behalf of Albanians for a Democratic Albania, I would like to congratulate you on your landslide victory.It is clear your leadership and a well-run campaign were critical factors in your overwhelming defeat of the Berisha regime...
On Wednesday, June 12, embassies and international organizations gathered at the crossing of Massachusetts and New Jersey Avenue in Washington, D.C. to participate in the Sixth Anniversary of the Dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial ...
Sein Wahlspruch? Tahir Shabani muss nicht lange überlegen: "Kleine Dinge mit großer Liebe tun", dieser Satz von Mutter Teresa steht für sein Engagement und für das seines Vereins "Die Sterne Kosovas", den der Kosovo-Albaner ...
The faithful who cannot fit inside the mosque sit down at its gates, along a pavement carpeted with prayer rugs. The cleric’s amplified voice travels over them, onto the street.At Friday prayers in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, the main mosque ...
Ismail Kadare is this generation's Kafka, bleakly comic, ethically impenetrable, plain-spoken to the point of obscurity. The prolonged issue about his political stance in Albania during the Enver Hoxha years, dissident or glad-hander to the regime, is curiously beside the point...
In the marble hall, in the crystal building near the Hudson River bank, Manhattan, New York, a U.N. conference on the vulnerability of women and children took place. Founded after World War two, the UN seeks to encourage peace between nations and foster international cooperation on pressing global issues. Representatives from six continents lectured...
In memory of the heroes that perished while opposing communism, Mustafa Xhepa and Grigor Nosi on behalf of the Albanian-American Freedom House laid a wreath on the Goddess of Freedom statue during the fifth anniversary of the Victims of Communism Memorial. The moving service called anticommunist leaders representing many nations that experienced the terror of communist dictatorship, to action in order to...
Dear Prime Minister Sali Berisha,On behalf of the Albanian-American Freedom House Organization, I wish to express my sincere condolences to all those affected by the tragedy that shook our nation today, May 21, when a bus full with students went out of control and crashed into a gorge in Himara, killing 14 students and wounding many others...
L’anthologie « Livre d’Or d’auteurs français sur les Albanais », qui embrasse une période de près de sept siècles, apparaît dans nos jours comme une couronne de lauriers...
Gallery On The Move presents “Arena”, the solo exhibition of Anri Sala in collaboration with The Promenade Gallery in Vlora. “Arena” consists in the presentation...
Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components...
Sue Tukey knows just about everyone who is anyone. A onetime school teacher, Tukey now uses retirement to work harder than ever. She has volunteered for nearly...
C’est un fait connu que jusqu’à présent sont identifiés physiquement cinq objets personnels du Héros national albanais, Georges Kastrioti Scanderbeg, dont quatre sont...
The World War II in Europe began with the invasion of Albania by the Italian Army on 7 April 1939. As a result, Albania lost its independence to become officially...
Every political campaign becomes a reason for a special analysis and they have not been lacking in the Albanian media. While we have been used to seeing...
Alfred Papuciu has kept a thalassaemia diary since 1981, when he first learned about the disorder. Over the years, he noted down everything he learned, and now...
