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Prof. Dr. Alaa Garad is President and Founding Partner of the Stirling Centre for Strategic Learning and Innovation, University of Stirling Innovation Park, Scotland. He is actively engaged in health tourism, higher education and organisational learning across the Western Balkans, including the Global Health Tourism Leadership Programme in Albania.

The 5Ps of Service Excellence: A Practical Roadmap for Albanian and Western Balkan Service Providers

By Professor Alaa Garad Tirana Times, April 07, 2026 – In my earlier article for Tirana Times, I described Albania as a country that moves from being visited to being remembered. Having
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Prof. Dr. Alaa Garad is President and Founding Partner of the Stirling Centre for Strategic Learning and Innovation, University of Stirling Innovation Park, Scotland. He is actively engaged in health tourism, higher education and organisational learning across the Western Balkans, including the Global Health Tourism Leadership Programme in Albania.

Building a Trusted Health Tourism Ecosystem: Albania’s Next Competitive Advantage

by Professor Alaa Garad Tirana Times, March 17, 2026 – There are countries you visit, and there are countries you remember. Albania is rapidly becoming the latter. I began writing this article
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Beauty and the Beast, Chapter IV

Location: Undisclosed residence, Tirana. As an ex-pat living in Tirana there are few things that I anticipate more than a package from home. Loaded with sweets, messages from friends and loved ones,
17 years ago
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Beauty and the Beast, Chapter V

Tirana through the eyes of a foreigner – Albania; Beauty and the beast. Location: Mother Teresa Airport – She’s such a beautiful symbol Tirana is my city, Albania my country. Every time
17 years ago
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Living with Stalin’s name

He was born in 1945 in Pogradec, when World War II was finally over with the Russians defeating Germany. His father was a big fan of Josif Stalin and decided to name
17 years ago
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Life Is Research. I Never Stop Doing It

1) In your books, dominates mistery and the readers constantly have to hold the breath as far as they discover the puzzle created from the firs page. Your books are considered like
17 years ago
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Albania at a Glance 2008

By Plamena Stoyanova, macro data provided by SeeNews Research & Profiles Albania, isolated for 45 years while it pursued its own maverick form of communism, continues to be out of step with
17 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

“THEY DEVOURED FANNY” Colonel David Smiley lived a full ninety-two years. He passed away on Thursday 9 January, 2009. During the War he served behind enemy lines in Albania and for the
17 years ago
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Group Portrait of Dictators

By Virgjil Mu詍 In reading, “Dictators of the Balkans,” a book written by a group of authors, compiled and furnished with an eloquent foreword by a historian of renown among Albanians, Bernd
17 years ago
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Studying arts in Tirana

Everyday, the Arts High School of Tirana is visited by, among other students, two special girls. They are quickly noticed because of their hazelnut eye shapes. Moe Minami and Hazuki Watanabe, both
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