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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

Tirana in the Seventies’. The most Shakespearean ritual of Albanian society in the Second Half of the 20th Century was the rise, the brilliance and, later on, the downward slide into the
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Fight prejudice, give youth a vision

As General Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Ambassador Walter Fust has visited the country four times, noticing each one of them the changes that have accompanied Albania’s
19 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

Tirana: The 20-ties and 30-ties. For Centuries they have been in our midst, but they never integrated and this is not only due to the “condescension” of the Albanians, but also because
19 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

Albania 1943-44. I began this in last week’s edition with rare images of German military presence in the country and I close this with the photographs of this edition, which show the
19 years ago
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Learning the trade of a new passion

Five years ago, a 19 year-old girl took a long sea-ride to cross the Otranto straight and join the thousands of Albanians studying in Italy. Disappointed with the five consecutive refusals of
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, Autumn of 1943. Everyone knows that they were here, but few saw them and even fewer fixed their image on celluloid. The Germans, the bearers of the most
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, 27 April, 1938. Following dragged out efforts and research, Zog, Albania’s Monarch for ten years, married Geraldine de Nagy-Appony, from a family of the Hungarian nobility bearing the
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Albanian by choice

By D. Gell詍 Meeting with other Albanians is not rare around here; at least not in the Detroit Metropolitan area. You can meet them frequently in all places where people go for
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