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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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Business & Economy·Features

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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Business & Economy·Features

The Kurum Case and the Collapse of Environmental Oversight in Albania

Tirana Times, 08 February 2026 – The Kurum waste file has exposed one of the most serious environmental and governance scandals in Albania in recent years, revealing not only the illegal export

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A critical account of foreign policy and diplomacy of post-communist Albania

Books·Features·News

Albanian Foreign Policy- The Perils of Change a new book from Albert Rakipi The Balkans and the region’s neighbors have been the main subject of Albania’s foreign policy since the fall of

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Tirana-European Youth Capital for 2022: An outstanding opportunity to brand a new Albania

Culture·Features

When the final decision of the selection of Tirana as a European Youth capital was reached in Amiens in November of 2019, the Albanian team erupted in celebration. They had worked so

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Albania in 2022: Key elements likely to shape out the year

Features·Main·News·Special

TIRANA, Jan. 1 – As 2022 starts in Albania, several key elements that will affect public and political life are already known. From the much wished end of the pandemic to political

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Kosovo’s Hive short-listed at Oscars

Culture·Features·Special

TIRANA, Dec. 23 – Kosovo’s Hive, directed by Blerta Basholli, has been shortlisted in the best foreign film category at the Oscars, the only movie from eastern Europe to reach this state.

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Conflict is not always about conventional weapons

Features

By: Mr. Tural Ganjaliev, Member of Parliament of Azerbaijan for the city of Khankendi Everyone deserves to live in a safe and healthy environment. With the global impact of environmental catastrophes becoming

4 years ago

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Hold these suitcases please!

Features

By: Jerina Zaloshnja At seven in the morning, on the third Tuesday in September of the year 2003, weighed down with some bags and all kinds of suitcases, I placed my foot

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Editorial: Albania’s economic management is failing its people

Editorial·Features·Op-Ed

TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL In what has become an annual grim ritual, the focus is back this week on Albania’s GDP per capita and the purchasing power of its citizens. The result remains

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Polish history: The Fake Coup

Features·Op-Ed

By JAN ROKITA* For the Poles, those eight years started by the fake coup of 13 December, the darkest hours in the lives of the previous generation. Not only was it time

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Editorial: Telefonyi Zakon and Thoma Gellci, ‘the felon’

Editorial·Features·Op-Ed

By ALBERT RAKIPI The outdated Russian term Telefonyi Zakon or the so-called Rule of Telephone law, refers to “a practice by which outcomes of legal cases allegedly come from orders issued over

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Int’l Day for Tolerance marked at Malta GCTP conference

Features

TIRANA, Nov. 17 – The Global Council for Tolerance and Peace has held a global conference in Malta to mark the International Day for Tolerance, bringing together key international representatives. Every year

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Books: A Concise History of Albania

Books·Features

Expected to be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2022, “A Concise History of Albania” by Bernd J. Fischer (Purdue University, United States) and Oliver Jens Schmitt (Universität Wien, Austria) is

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Features - Page 9

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

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

The Kurum Case and the Collapse of Environmental Oversight in Albania

A critical account of foreign policy and diplomacy of post-communist Albania

Tirana-European Youth Capital for 2022: An outstanding opportunity to brand a new Albania

Albania in 2022: Key elements likely to shape out the year

Kosovo’s Hive short-listed at Oscars

Conflict is not always about conventional weapons

Hold these suitcases please!

Editorial: Albania’s economic management is failing its people

Polish history: The Fake Coup

Editorial: Telefonyi Zakon and Thoma Gellci, ‘the felon’

Int’l Day for Tolerance marked at Malta GCTP conference

Books: A Concise History of Albania

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