by Monika Grill Tirana Times, July 11, 2026 – “K’cimi i Tropoja” – the dance that endured over centuries and kept the Albanian identity alive, has been officially declared part of the
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From left to right: AIIS Director Alba Cela, Ambassador Manuel Montobbio, Spanish Ambassador Gabriel Cremades.
Tirana Times, July 02, 2026. The Albanian Institute for International Studies and Tirana Times book house hosted a special literary evening in Tirana with Ambassador Manuel Montobbio, diplomat, writer, poet and academic, offering a rare encounter
Corruption remains one of Albania’s most stubborn obstacles toward development and its dream for European integration. Although the country marked its biggest historical leap in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for the
Different poets from abroad will come for the third time in Albania at the festival of poetry, titled “The Poetic”. This is the third edition of this competition and it will start
Recently the city of Shkodra has been the center of the cultural activities in Albania. The theatre “Migjeni”, the only theater of the city, has welcomed for weeks the premiers of the
The embassy of Russia has presented yesterday at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, in Tirana, the initiative of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to name this year, 2007, as the “Year of
TIRANA, April 5-6: The regional Festival “Art against stereotypes” took place in Tirana at the International centre of Culture ‘Pjeter Arbnori’. The Festival was organized by the Council of Europe in cooperation
Belgrade, March.31- Respect and tolerance towards diversity has always been easier in the cultural field than in the political one. Belgrade hosted this weekend an international conference entitled “Cultural diversity and social
TIRANA, April.5 – In its weekly Thursday evening screening, the cinema school Marubi had chosen one of the earliest movies of icon American movie director Jim Jarmusch. The movie was done in
TIRANA, April. 2- The well known opera “Carmen” of the famous writer George Bize, will open the premier artistic season of the National Theatre of Opera. The show will start on the
VLORA, April.2 – Just a few steps away of the blue sea of the Vlora city, where the private gallery “Xhemart” is located, the painter Fatmir Veliaj chose to promote his exhibition
A site that has resisted and survived for no less than five thousand years is ruined by dynamite explosions at a nearby stone quarry. This is what has happened to a Neolithic
“The houses that shape Tirana” by German artist Geongrich were projected on Tuesday opposite the Pyramid in Tirana. With Curator Stefano Romano, Tirana conceived by the German artist was presented in all
The Institute of Monuments of Culture, in cooperation with the Foundation, “Patrimoine sans frontiers” (Inheritance without Boundaries) (PSF), organized a Conference last Wednesday at the National Gallery of Arts. The paper called,