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MAL BERISHA’S FAREWELL PARTY 30th October 2015, at Regents University, London BY ADAM YAMEY It was thanks to an electronic message sent to me by Lixhan John Lumani, an Albanian barber in Connecticut (USA), that I first met Ambassador Mal Berisha. The barber informed me that an Albanian film was to be shown at Rich Mix in London’s Shoreditch district. […]
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IN MEMORIAM Prologue Professor T. Scarlett Epstein passed away on the 27th of April 2014 at the age of 92, leaving behind many precious memories, among the most interesting ones were those of Albania. I knew her in the early days of my work in London when my diplomatic colleague Ms.Teuta Starova informed me that Prof. Epstein wanted to meet […]
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ALBANIAN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, 1912 – 1939[1] (Pre-state, Independence, First Republic, Kingdom) Written by Mal Berisha[2] Albanians have shown their diplomatic capacities much earlier than the independence in 1912. Even during the epoch under our National Hero, Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg in the XV Century Albania had diplomatic relations with the Venice Republic, the Kingdom of Naples […]
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A HOMAGE FOR THOSE KILLED IN AN ANTI-SEMITIST ATTACK IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA The dreadful massacre that took place against the Jews, in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where 11 Jews were killed, 6 others wounded, is a strong alarm bell for all mankind that opposes anti-Semitism. We Albanians are in the forefront of the world’s noble men who defended Jews […]
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By Tirana Times , September 8, 2017 A special person was the guest of the U.S. Embassy this week. It was the U.S. Ambassador, Donald Lu who welcomed Boaz Nash to the U.S. Embassy. Mr. Nash is the great-grandson of Herman Bernstein who served as U.S. Ambassador to Albania from 1930 to 1933. According to the Embassy, Ambassador Lu gave Boaz a […]
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Story Highlights Jonathan Brent, Ph.D., the Executive Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, underlined in an exclusive interview with Tirana Times that the story of the first U.S. Ambassador to Albania, Herman Bernstein, told by the Albanian diplomat and scholar, Mr. Mal Berisha, at YIVO Institute in 2014 represented a wonderful opportunity for YIVO to demonstrate […]