English - Zemra Shqiptare

Saimir Lolja: The Albanian Besa - The Golden Rule

Besa is an Albanian word. Foreigners say Albania instead of Shqipëria, the language Albanian instead of Shqip, and people Albanians instead of Shqiptarë (in the Albanian language). The Albanian language (Shqip) is the oldest in Europe, and it is at the root of the tree of all Euro-Indian words. Besa is a noble principle...

Klajd Kapinova: Denkyira kingdom Slavery was historically a tradition in the Ashanti Empire (Africa)

Slavery existed in various African countries. Hundreds of centuries ago slave owners were African and not European or American.Why don't those who talk about slavery in America today long ago show the origin of slavery as it was born and who practiced it?The kings sold them for market...

Alfred Papuçiu: Les Albanais originaires de Zara ou d'autres régions de la Croatie

Poursuivre son chemin à la diaspora, le cœur ouvert à autrui, à son voisin, à son ami, à son copain, à sa sœur ou à son frère représente sans doute un grand défi. En parlant de la diaspora, de ses compatriotes où qu'ils soient, en Europe ou aux États-Unis, en Australie ou en Amérique latine, on rend tant soit peu service au ...

Alfred Papuçiu: La stabilité aux Balkans et l’Europe de Sud - Est

Tout d’abord je voudrais remercier Monsieur Jayantha Dhanapala et Serge Sur respectivement Directeur et Directeur adjoint de l’UNIDIR ainsi que tout le secrétariat de la Fondation Hellénique pour la Défense et la Politique étrangère de nous avoir invités à Rhodes, la plus grande des îles du Dodécanèse...

Des esquisse et des contes littéraires par Alfred Papuçiu

Cette année-là à Nairobi la Conférence Mondiale des Femmes a tenu ses assises. On a proposé à Arban de partir avec la délégation des femmes puisqu'il avait une expérience avec les organisations internationales. Naturellement, il a accepté, avec le désir de voir ce beau pays africain et non pas tellement pour écouter les...

Genc Kortsha: Father Anton Harapi

Father Anton Harapi was a Franciscan of renown in Albania.He was a distinguished man of letters, known for his integrity and love of people. He was loved in return by the poor and humble while the rich and powerful respected him and included him in their power...

Mhill Marku: Father Anton Harapi (1888-1946)

We cannot speak of any facet of Albanian history where the Albanian Catholic clergy did not play a significant role. Among them, the Franciscans, without any shadow of doubt, were loved and respected by all the Albanians, no matter what creed they professed. A Muslim lawyer, Muzafer Pipa...

Marku: Dede Gjo’ Luli, 50 Anniversary of his death

The year was 1915 and the month September when the 75 year old Dede Gjo’ Luli, the leader of the mountaineers of Hoti, Gruda, Kelmendi, Kastrati, Kopliku, etc., who had gained an international reputation from Constantinople to Vienna as a fierce fighter for the ...

Jeta Vojkollari: The Devil I Paid for Advice

Tirana in the evening. Modern cafes. Lights. Glamour. High heels and loud voices. Laughter. Girls in low-cut necklines, smooth-skinned. Young men wearing their hair short and styled with gel. Just like the cafes, the young smelled of luxury and modern times...

Everest Haxhi: Quo vadis Albania!

Albania is in the verge of collapse. Several factors contribute to that and all together have gone in a irreversible path that will see this great country repeat some of his worst nightmare moments of the past. The most important factor is Albanian people that have not understood so ...

Grigor Nosi: Amnesia

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 ...

Ejëll Çoba: Lost Life

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...

Mërgim Korça: Islami Sisters

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...

Zyba Hysa: Scottish poet, Morelle Smith

- 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 ...

Gary Kokalari: Letter to Edi Rama

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...

The anti-Communist Heroes Memorial

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 ...

"Wir haben hier viel Wärme erlebt"

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 ...

Rise of Conservative Islamists Alarms Kosovans

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 ...

The Fall of the Stone City, By Ismail Kadare

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...

Teuta Mema: The Ambassador

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 Honor of Anticommunist Heroes

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...

Mustafa Xhepa: They will be in our thoughts

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...

Fotaq Andrea: Livre d'or d'auteurs français sur les Albanais

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 in collaboration with The Promenade Gallery

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...

The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat (Dr. Peter Hammond: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam)

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...

East Hartford woman teams up with Manchester Chef

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...

Fotaq Andrea et Dritan Muka: Trois livres de la bibliothèque des Kastrioti

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...

Saimir Lolja: The rescue of Jews in Kosova

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...

Enver Bytyci: "Basha's Civilized Campaign, Rama's Military Discourse"

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...