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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...

Stephen Schwartz: Broken Promises

Never forget what happened here!” John Paul II demanded in 1993 when he visited Albania - where, under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, the Communists were at their most...

Alfred Papuçiu: Les Albanais et la double nationalité

La Suisse accueille dans son territoire de 41 293 km carré et avec un nombre d’habitants de presque 7 millions, à peu près 200 000 albanais, ainsi qu’un nombre considérable d’italiens...

Alfred Papuçiu: Le représentant des femmes

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...

Alfred Papuçiu: L’enfant albanais aux yeux noirs

Au fonds de la bibliothèque des auteurs étrangers sur l’Albanie et les albanais s’est ajouté un autre titre très attirant : “ L’enfant albanais aux yeux noirs ” de l’activiste humaniste et...

Alfred Papuçiu: L’Etoile du berger

Les nuages ont commencé à descendre des montagnes. Ils sont allés vers l’ouest et se sont fondus dans les couloirs des saules où fait paître le bétail, en laissant des bêlements...

Alfred Papuçiu: Au volant

Mon copain a laissé le volant et est allé dans la carrosserie. Je me suis installé à sa place. Près de moi restait l'instructeur d’auto-école. J'ai tourné la clé et j'ai donné du gaz...

Alfred Papuçiu: The Day against Thalassaemia May 8th...

Every 8th of May, the western world offers a tribute to the fight against Thalassaemia, the disease, which in the 20th & 21st Century, spread all over the globe. On this day we...

Bedri Dedja: Les contes de la Suisse

Je connais l’académicien et le professeur Bedri Dedja depuis de nombreuses années. Je me rappelle que quand j’étais petit, il m’a ramené d’un de ses voyages de Moscou, un album avec...

Alfred Papuçiu: Réflexions sur l’académicien Bedri Dedja

Bedri Dedja nous a quittés le matin du 13 avril 2004, et personne n’avait pas prévu son départ douloureux. Il est parti sans demander quelque chose, heureux mais aussi blessé...

Valerie Durollari and Ken Biberaj

VALERIE DUROLLARI and Ken Biberaj, children of Albanian immigrants, met at a huge Albanian wedding in late November 2004. But it was Spanish chefs and paella that put them on a...

NATO’s relations with Albania

NATO and Albania cooperate in a range of areas, with a particular emphasis on defence and security sector reform, as well as support for wider democratic and institutional reform...

Alfred Papuçiu: Hope for near the future

I began this diary, since 1981, when I heard, for the first time, about Thalassemia, an inherited disorder. It was a discovery for me. Year by year, I noted all about this hereditary illness...

Spencer Fearon: Find me a better atmosphere!

I would like to start by thanking everyone who was in attendance at Kensington Town Hall on Friday night for the first Hard Knocks Boxing Promotions bill. Judging by the reception on the...

Bill Clinton: Statement on Kosovo (March 24, 1999)

My fellow Americans, today our Armed Forces joined our NATO allies in airstrikes against Serbian forces responsible for the brutality in Kosovo. We have acted with resolve for several reasons...

The Council of the City of New York is pleased to honor the Republic of Kosovo

The Council of the City of New York is pleased to honor the Republic of Kosovo, which today celebrates the first anniversary of its independence; and...

Alfred Papuçiu: Two words about the well known artist, our national Vaçe

Big people are modest- my composer friend was saying to me one day when I talked to him about our national singer, Vaçe Zela. I often remember her, listening to her wonderful voice...

Skolansvarig politiker i Borås: "Barn som behöver stöd ska vi satsa på"

En hårdare styrning av pengarna kan också bli aktuell. Den ansvariga kommunalrådet reagerar starkt över siffrorna BT presenterar. – Det låter väldigt mycket, säger han om skillnaderna i resultat...

Nje leter ne mbrojtje te Kosoves, nga prof. Peter R. Prifti, drejtuar editorit te Tennis Magazine?

A couple of days ago, I was watching the Delic-Djokovic tennis match in the Australian Open. Commentator Cliff Drysdale was giving background information on the lingering...

Isa Mulaj: Proposed and approved tax rate changes

For a long time, a number of NGOs and the overwhelming majority of businesses had identified tax rates in place as the main barrier to Kosova’s economic growth. They considered lowering...

Baritoni Gezim Myshketa pjesmarres ne ”Gala Concert”– St.Gallen-Zvicer

EN - Born in Albania in 1982, after the vocal studies in Tirana he graduated in Italy at the Conservatoire of Parma. He sang at Teatro Coccia in Novara in the 2005 season premiere with...

Balkan Troubles

Bosnia and Kosovo have largely disappeared from public view. Washington and Brussels are hoping the promise of European Union accession will ultimately triumph over remaining...

Michael J. Totten: Kosovo's Moderate Muslims

On Feb. 17, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, becoming the newest country in the world - and one of the most unusual. Most of its citizens are Muslim, an oddity in Europe...

Edita Kuçi-Ukaj: Kosovo and the Threat of Terrorism

The Albanians traditionally and even spiritually have resisted in a large measure the continuing foreign attempts to jeopardize the harmony of Albanian inter-religious relations. That is why they...

Leading a Dark Mission to Albania’s Fields of Bones

Ismail Kadare’s world is a sort of antimatter. It destroys ours. Except that, unlike the example from particle physics, it also complements ours and to stark effect. To read the novels of this great...

Albanian commentary advises Kosovo to avoid Islamic Conference

Last May, when there was a debate about whether Kosova [Kosovo] should take part in the conference of Islamic states in Islamabad, I wrote: "The Islamic states will remain reluctant, irrespective of whether Veton...

Mother Teresa wins Nelson Mandela icon vote

Mother Teresa garnered more votes than Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi ? even Jesus Christ. Mother Teresa has beaten off strong competition to be awarded the mantle of...

Will the real Mr Kadare please stand up?

Ismail Kadare won the Man Booker International Prize in 2005 but few people know what this Albanian man is like, so I thought I'd try to find out while he was passing through London. I sit with Mrs Kadare in the foyer...

Ndue Ukaj: Thaci's Visit, Triumph of Identity Over Distinctions

Kosova [Kosovo] Prime Minister Thaci's visit to Albania, apart from its political message, also conveyed a message to the effect that, having to cope with a new political situation under the same national umbrella, Kosova...

Xhevat Rexhaj: Die Schweiz und Kosova

Von der Schweiz erzählte mein Vater erstmals, als ich sieben Jahre alt war. Da berichtete er von seinen Erlebnissen im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Er wurde 1941 als Kriegsgefangener der deutschen Wehrmacht von Kroatien...

Interview: Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare wrote for decades under Enver Hoxha's brutal communist regime in Albania, was suspected of spying and threatened with punishment for subversive writing. Despite all this, at 72 he is serene...

The Siege by Ismail Kadare

In the eyes of western Europeans, Albania has long had about it an aura of mystery and exoticism. Ismail Kadare (the country's leading novelist and winner of the Man Booker International prize in 2005) played a riff on this...

Agamemnon's Daughter By Ismail Kadare

THESE TALES OF repression linger in the mind for their indictment of dictators and for a tone of bleak bewilderment, that becomes furious comprehension at the depths to which regimes will sink to retain power over people...

Gëzim Alpion: From Alexander the Great to Mother Teresa

A collection of essays, Encounters with Civilizations: from Alexander the Great to Mother Teresa, by Gëzim Alpion, Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, has now been published in Kolkata...

Sarë Gjergji: Kosovo – Reinstate to Europe

Kosovo and its population, regardless of ethnicity, were in need for international assistance for getting its freedom. Come out with this, regardless of ethnicity, because non Albanians were suffering from violence of Serbian...

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