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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 Rome-Tirana 1941. Let’s open the New Year with a card, even though it is sixty five years old. To explain this event, I have to first explain how the
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, December 1972. For about one year now, Albania had been experiencing a somewhat timid cultural Spring. The “Spring Exhibition” has been officially opened; Enver Hoxha, in person, spoke
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Southern Albania, August 1949. Following World War Two, Greece was engulfed in the flames of civil strife that became more and more aggravated, until. in 1949. Stalin accepted to
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, in the forties’. Sometimes very little separates the heroic from the ridiculous. The Italians who had been producing masterpieces of the Fine Arts for centuries, often came up
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan lame Vlora, 1919, 1932. On 22 January, 1914, Ismail Qemal Bey Vlora resigned as Prime Minister of the first Albanian government and state. The Albanians, who for hundreds of years
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Ich bien ein Belgrader

By Alba Cela If it was not for a seminar addressing the complex dynamics of investigative journalism, I think the likelihood of me taking the initiative to go to Belgrade on elections’
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, April 1937. Irrespective of their intensity, Italo-Albanian relations during the period of King Zog were constantly a source of friction, mutual distrust, imposition and diplomatic games, which irrespective
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