Dr. Arben Ramkaj is Chairman at the Institute for Cultural and Religious Dialogues in Albania.
He is also Director of the Middle East and Muslim World Department at the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS).
By Dr. Arben Ramkaj Tirana Times, July 3, 2026 – If you sit by the banks of the Nile on a quiet afternoon and allow its serene flow to guide your thoughts,
By Albert Rakipi Tirana Times, June 30, 2026 – For more than two decades, the Western Balkans have lived inside the promise of European integration. In Albania, support for membership in the
A Barthesian Reading By Diana Gëllçi, Ph.D. Tirana Times, June 30, 2026 – A beautiful protest has been unfolding in Tirana for several weeks. What is particularly interesting is that the same description
Albania managed to barely survive a very difficult year. As the entire world was reeling due to the Covid-19 pandemics, Albania was carrying the additional scars of two powerful earthquakes of the
The Albanian police have sadly not reflected and continue to use disproportionate amount of force and violence failing to learn the lesson that had to be learned after the murder of the
On the International Day of Migrants, December 18, the National Statistics Institute of Albania provided the media with a figure that is known to the Albanian collective psyche but which nevertheless, when
KRISTINA LANI While COVID-19 quickly spread around the globe and the term ‘pandemic’ opened news programs ranging from CNN to small local stations in virtually every town, citizens soon understood that, besides
BELGRADE – It has been a year since the main concerns in the Balkans regarding regional economic integration were – is mini-Schengen initiative just a substitute for the lack of commitment of
Most of these young men have hopelessness in their eyes. The hopelessness turns into rage and fills their fingers with strength as they clutch a stone and throw it against the police,
In a trademark populist style that is now getting to be old news, Prime Minister Rama announced unexpectedly that he was taking the plane to the United States “to move all strings”
In the early hours of December 4, the news broke to Tirana that Marko Bello, former minister of EU integration, former MP of the Socialist Party for three mandates and former diplomat
by Loren Koçollari During the last decades, Chinese foreign policy has been the focus of the researchers, and there’s an ongoing interest to see how technology has been used or will be
by Stephan Müller The European Commission (EC) recently presented communications on two important policies which are both of relevance for the countries of the Western Balkans: the 2020 Enlargement Package and the
by HENRI HAXHIRAJ Importance of digital infrastructure The restrictions in certain areas of our everyday lives that many countries implemented due to the spread of Covid-19 once more highlighted the importance of