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Bibliography Of Albania
This is a list of books in the English language which deal with Albania and its geography, history, inhabitants, culture, biota, etc. *Al-Halwaji, ‘Abd Al-Sattar and Habib Allah ‘Azimi – ''Catalogue of Islamic Manuscripts in the National Library of Albania, Tirana/Fihris makhtutat al-Islamiya bi Maktabat al-wataniya al-Albaniya fi Tirana.'' *Almagia, Roberto - ''Albania.'' *Barjaba, Kosta – ''Albania’s Democratic Elections, 1991-1997: Analyses, Documents and Data.'' * Bethell, Nicholas - ''Betrayed.'' *Biberaj, Elez – ''Albania, A Socialist Maverick.'' *Biberaj, Elez – ''Albania and China: A Study of an Unequal Alliance.'' *Brewer, Bob – ''My Albania: Ground Zero.'' *Destani, Petjullah and Robert Elsie, eds. - ''Edward Lear in Albania: Journals of a Landscape Painter in the Balkans.'' * Doja, Albert. 2000. "The politics of religion in the reconstruction of identities: the Albanian situation." ''Critique of Anthropology'' 20 (4): 421-4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albania Map
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. Tirana is its capital and largest city, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania displays varied climatic, geological, hydrological, and morphological conditions, defined in an area of . It possesses significant diversity with the landscape ranging from the snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps as well as the Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains to the hot and sunny coasts of the Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea along the Mediterranean Sea. Albania has been inhabited by different civilisations over time, such as the Illyrians, Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, and Ottoman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora Gordon
Jan and Cora Gordon were a British art duo and co-authors active in the first half of the 20th century. They are known as contributors to the "tramp memoir" genre of travel writing of the interwar period. Background Jan Gordon (1882–1944) was an English printmaker, a painter and draughtsman, and journalist and critic, born Godfrey Jervis Gordon in Berkshire, England. His wife Cora Gordon (born Cora Josephine Turner in Buxton, England, also known as Jo Gordon, 1879–1950) was an English artist, writer, and musician. The couple, painters in Paris during the Edwardian period, were married in 1909. Biography Both Jan and Cora exhibited at the 1910 Allied Artists Association London salon. Their first book, ''The Luck of Thirteen'' (1916), documented life in the Serbian mission of the Royal Free Hospital and an audacious escape during the 1915 retreat from Serbia. James Berry, leader of this mission, in his 1916 book described the Gordons and their various exploits during thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatos Tarifa
Fatos Tarifa (born 21 August 1954) is a social scientist and a former diplomat from Albania. Education Tarifa has a double doctorate, with a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Tirana. He has been, inter alia, a lecturer, a researcher and a distinguished visiting fellow since 1981, when he joined the School of Political Science and Law at the University of Tirana. In 1992 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the Department of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Career Tarifa served as Albanian ambassador to the Netherlands (1998–2001) and to the United States (2001–2005). Currently he is Professor of Sociology and International Relations, and Director of the Institute for Studies on Democracy and Development at the University of New York Tirana. Tarifa has taught and conducted research at the University of Tirana, the European University of Tirana, the Institute of Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavro Skendi
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Stavro is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: * Stavro Jabra (1947–2017), Lebanese cartoonist and illustrator * Stavro Skëndi (1905–1989), Albanian-American linguist and historian * Astrid Stavro (born 1972), Italian graphic designer based in Barcelona * Stavri Stavro (1885–1955), Albanian diplomat to Yugoslavia and Greece * Steve Stavro (1926–2006), Macedonian-Canadian businessman and grocery store magnate See also * Stavros (other) * Ernst Stavro Blofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a character (arts), fictional character and villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming. A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the Secret In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pettifer
James Pettifer is a British academic, author and journalist who has specialised in Balkan affairs. He was born in 1949 in Hereford and was educated at King's School, Worcester, and Hertford College, Oxford. Pettifer has travelled extensively in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans and he has written several tourist guides to the region, including the ''Blue Guide to Albania and Kosovo'', one of the few such guides to the area. In the media, he has reported mainly for ''The Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal'' and he is a regular broadcaster and commentator on the Balkan countries on both radio and television. His expertise has been employed academically. He was a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a visiting professor in the Institute of Balkan Studies, in Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albania Defiant
''Albania Defiant'' ( sv, Albansk utmaning) is a travel book by the Swedish authors Gun Kessle and Jan Myrdal, originally published in 1970 and translated to English in 1976 by Paul Britten Austin. It was reprinted in 1986, with six additional new chapters. In Swedish it was published by PAN/Nordstedt, in English by Monthly Review Press. The book, which is deeply sympathetic to the Party of Labour of Albania (PPSh), was written by Kessle and Myrdal – who were married until Kessle's death in 2007 – about their travels in the People's Republic of Albania. It deals with a number of issues, including the country's economy, culture and history, as well as the political leadership of Enver Hoxha. Reception The book was poorly received by several writers critical of Myrdal and the People's Republic of Albania. In ''Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater'' (2006), Professor Jan Sjåvik wrote that Myrdal's "inability to perceive the horrors of Enver Hoxha's r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Myrdal
Jan Myrdal (19 July 1927 – 30 October 2020) was a Swedish author known for his strident Maoist, anti-imperialist and contrarian views and heterodox and highly subjective style of autobiography. Family Born in Bromma, Stockholm, in 1927, Jan Myrdal was the son of two of Sweden's most influential 20th century intellectuals, Nobel Laureates Alva Myrdal (née Reimer) and Gunnar Myrdal, and the brother of Sissela Bok and Kaj Fölster. Through his sister Sissela, Myrdal was the brother-in-law of Dean of Harvard Law School and longtime president of Harvard University, Derek Bok. Myrdal married four times. His first two wives, Maj Lidberg (1952-1956) and Nadja Wiking (1948-1952), bore him two children, Janken Myrdal (with Wiking) and Eva Myrdal (with Lidberg). Myrdal left both wives and their children at a young age, and, for most of his life, he would live with his third wife (1926–2007). A graphic artist and photographer, she illustrated many of his works. After Kessle's death, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatham House
Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute headquartered in London. Its stated mission is to provide commentary on world events and offer solutions to global challenges. It is the originator of the Chatham House Rule. Overview Canadian philanthropists Colonel Reuben Wells Leonard and Kate Rowlands Leonard purchased the property in 1923, donating the building as a headquarters for the fledgling organisation that then became known as Chatham House. The building is a Grade I listed 18th-century house in St James's Square, designed in part by Henry Flitcroft and occupied by three British Prime Ministers, including William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. Chatham House accepts individual members as well as members from corporations, academic institutions and NGOs. Chatham House Rule Chatham House is the origin of the non-attribution rule known as the Chatham House Rule, which provides that attendees of meetings may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hasluck
Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck M.B.E. (1944) (18 June 1885 – 18 October 1948) was a Scottish geographer, linguist, epigrapher, archaeologist and scholar. Biography Margaret Hasluck was born Margaret Hardie and graduated from Aberdeen University where she received Honors in Classics in 1907, and then went to Cambridge, completing her studies with honours in 1911. She was not awarded a degree because Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1948. Hasluck then attended the British School in Athens and worked in the field at Pisidian antioch and published, "''The Shrine of Men Askaenos at Pisidian Antioch''" and "''Dionysos at Smyrna''". Marrying Frederick William Hasluck, Assistant Director of the British School in Athens, they honeymooned in Konya, and, based in Athens, the couple travelled throughout Turkey and the Balkans. In 1916 Frederick contracted tuberculosis and died four years later in Switzerland,''Margaret Hasluck'', Robert Elsie, Historical Dictionary of Albani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Gordon
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * '' Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Freedman (political Scientist)
Dr. Robert Freedman (Robert Owen Freedman) is an American political scientist who holds appointments at Baltimore Hebrew University and at the Johns Hopkins University. Strategic Studies Institute Freedman received his BA in Diplomatic History from the and his MA and Ph.D degrees in International Relations from Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private researc ...
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