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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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Forsaken Albania

By Artan lame Tirana in the years 1926-27. Not so long ago, the Mosque of Et’hem Bey was not a landmark of the centre of the city but of its south western
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan lame Albania, 1937, 1942, 1984. All dictatorships and authoritarian States have a particular obsession towards the female part of society: they try to get them mobilised. This occurs mainly in
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Interview: Back to the mystery days

By Alba ȥla Peter Lucas was born in Boston, the most European city of the US, to an Albanian immigrant family from Kor衠and he still remembers some Albanian spoken in the house
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan lame Tirana, October 1943. It is now one month since Italy capitulated. The Germans have installed themselves in Albania, the authorities have lost all legitimacy, the mountains are filling up
18 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame After centuries of being used, medals and decorations still remain one of the most effective forms of appreciation of work, valour or other deeds of human perfomance. However, it
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan lame Upper Albania in the 1920’s-1940’s. In the last edition I spoke about the custom and the familiarity Albanians used to have with weapons. Towards the second half of the
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