Spain clinches second FIFA World Cup title as Europe continues its dominance on football’s biggest stage By Gautam Karve, Editor-in-Chief, World Media Organization Tirana Times, July 22, 2026 – Spain secured its
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
TIRANA, Sept. 11 – U.S-based Albanian pianist Redi Llupa will open the third edition of Pinodrom international festival in Albania. Llupa, who is pursuing his career in the U.S., will perform in
TIRANA, Sept. 1 – Three Italian and British artists will be showcased in the northern Albanian city of Shkoder in a collective contemporary art exhibition. Italy’s Pierpaolo Campanini and Giovanni De Lazzari
TIRANA, Sept. 1 – Mark Krasniqi, a renowned Kosovo scholar, ethnographer and political figure, has passed away at the age of 95. Albanian academics, politicians expressed condolences to Krasniqi’s family. Born in
TIRANA, Sept. 2 – Downtown Tirana will be the venue of this year’s sixth edition of Art Kontakt festival featuring dozens of international artists, differently from previous editions when the 19th century
TIRANA, Sept. 1 – Back in 2000 Endri Tolka from Albani, Taher Baderkhan from Jordan and Abi Mandelbaum from Colombia were freshmen roommates at Brandeis University in the U.S. Now, 15 years
TIRANA, Sept. 2 – Albania’s National Theatre of Opera and Ballet has announced a tight calendar of events for the new September-December season including opera and ballet premieres. Mozart’s Don Giovanni opera
TIRANA, Sept. 3 – Two Austria-based artists, Albania’s Marina Sula and Bjorn Segschneider are being featured in a solo exhibition at the Zeta art gallery in Tirana. The exhibition called “Somewhere in
TIRANA, Aug. 20 – An underground tunnel built by the former politically imprisoned in Gjirokastra, has become a tourist attraction in Gjirokastra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The visitors come mainly from
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Idromeno's landmark Motra Tone (Sister Tone) painting
TIRANA, Aug. 18 – One of Albania’s best artists, late Kolà« Idromeno is being commemorated on his 150th birth anniversary with a special exhibition featuring him as a pioneer of Albanian cinema,
TIRANA, Aug. 18 – More than 100 Albanologists from all over the world have gathered in Kosovo to participate in the annual international seminar on Albanian language, literature and culture which this
TIRANA, Aug. 13 – The Gjin Aleksi mosque in the southern district of Delvina could be unique in the world for its name. Featuring a Catholic name (Gjin) and an Orthodox surname