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Hylli i Dritës was a magazine published by the Franciscan Order of Shkodra. Prominent catholic clerks, writers, poets, intelectual figures and politicians were the biggest contributing figures of the time. The posture and approach of the magazine towards the developments that occurred one year after the declaration of the Independence of Albania in 1912 and continued until the beginning of the Second World War (until 1939) will be analyzed in this paper. This paper intends to put into light the main issues related to the foreign political influences and the main approaches of the magazine towards these events. What was the position of the magazine towards the Ottoman Empire? What was their approach towards Princ Wilhelm Wied? What were their opinions on fascism and Nazism? Were they aligned with the Holy See? The influences of the magazine were evident regarding these questions and thus the conclusions of this paper enable us to understand and view the media of that time as a tool which had sufficient powers to influence the public opinion and the main parts of society one century ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

About the emergency of writing a new Grammar of Albanian and some actual problems identified in Grammar I of the Academy of Sciences at the morphological level. This paper will be focused in problems identified in Grammar I of Academy of Sciences. In this context we'll discuss about partly description of the structure of Albanian Language demonstrated even by some of the authors of this referential book (we refer such statements "this book has been made for the structure of standard"). The formalism in perception and description is another problem that can be identified in this Grammar (the conception about the theme of the word, morphological theme, the concept of the parts of speech, word formation and the analyses of morphemes) and the reflection of this treatment in the texts of pre-Universitary schools. Also, the problems of categorization of traditional degree, voice, transitive/intransitive verbs, the meaning of the verbs are other problems identified from us in years. For these problems we have given the alternative theories that can provide more fruitful solutions. Traditional concept that we find in Grammar I and II reflects only the description of the surface structure and neglects the deep structure (case of some words that are considered as adverbs from Grammar I). This is another example of a partly description of the paradigm and structure (only the surface structure). There are too many papers and scholars who have already represented alternatives about these problematics noticed in morphological as well as syntactic level. Unfortunately, until today, these papers have not been reflected in a new manual of Albanian Grammar. The worst thing is that, these problems and many others are reflected directly in the texts of Albanian Language of the pre-Universitary in Kosovo and Albania, as theorical manuals, whom the authors of these books ought to consult. In this context we are convinced that writing a new Grammar of Albanian Language is not only delayed, but now is considered as an emergency by us. A full description of paradigm and structure of Albanian Language based in more productive in results methodologies will influence directly in the analyses of different types of texts from the stylistics point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay proposes an analysis of the state policies, practices and discourses regarding the Roma populations in Albania during socialism, by exploring the notion of apparatus as defined by Michel Foucault (1977). A number of instruments in the form of circulars, measures, orders and strategies were promoted by the authoritarian state to respond to a social problem which, according to official discourse at the time, was created by the Roma community. These elements constitute what I call the "Roma apparatus". Through an ethnographic investigation among the Roma communities and in the central state archives, this paper analyzes the Roma apparatus, which aimed to discipline and normalize society and the Roma in particular. More specifically, this essay proposes an analysis of various population management instruments, as power techniques, and the effects of such a process on the Roma population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Circulation of news from television screen to social network accounts. Classical media in terms of broad-based Internet penetration and technological developments are being adapted. They are under the pressure of how public information is consumed today. In this framework, public and private television staffs in Albania are investing more in informational content being distributed not only through screen but also in the virtual version. Their online sites and accounts on social networks are dynamic spaces that tend to attract more and more followers. This paper focuses on the typology of information that TV newsrooms circulate through social networks. Concrete cases are taken of the four main national televisions, Klan, Top Channel, Vizion Plus and RTSH 1. Their ambition to gain as much ground and followers in virtual competition. Human resources that have engaged, modify texts and illustrate information with photos, videos, and animations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout South East Europe, the functioning of public broadcasters, has no financial sustainability and therefore has an impact on the quality of the programs in general! Since funding patterns have changed over the years, public perceptions have changed depending on this. The public broadcaster in Kosovo from 2012 is funded with 0.7 of the budget from the country's general budget! Since 2015 this broadcaster has no legal framework for funding because the new law has encountered blockades from the opposition in the country. While the public payment system has been accepted in Albania, in Kosovo the new law is proposed to be a payment of 3.5 euro per household by attaching advertising that comes up to 10% of the general program. My paper will make comparisons between the two broadcasters, various pressures on broadcasters regarding funding, program quality, news worthiness! [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Molla Hysen Dobraçi is relatively unknown and mentioned mainly as a representative of the so called bejtexhiliterature in Albania. His output is still by and large unknown and unstudied, despite the high regard with which he was mentioned in Zef Jubani's anthology, in 1871. Dobraçi's established authorship of some traditional songs adds another important dimension to his persona, marking him as the first documented author in Shkodra's aheng tradition and even in Albania's urban traditional song generally. Besides adressing some moot points in his biography, this paper tracks that part of Dobraçi's output which passed and was preserved in Shkodra's traditional urban song. Cross-searching the available sources, eight such songs are identified and then analyzed as to their lyrics, music and culturalimport. Dobraçi's lyrics display clearly the fundamental traits of the oriental poetic code that characterized Albania's bejtexhi literature generally. On a musical level, his songs display a more complex melodic and modal conception, as well as some peculiar features that bespeak an individual style. Keeping in mind the role of bejtexhi literature as a conduit of islamic high culture, some of the broader meanings of Dobraçi's output have been considered within a broader context. As the typical traits of Shkodra's aheng song are fully fledged in his songs, we come into the conclusion that the origins of this tradition must be traced back before the eighteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While considering mythology as a system of symbols, the article deals not only with the developmen stages of mythological systems and its elements as mythographic inventory, but it sheds light on some particular characters of classical mythology found into the body of Albanian epic traditional songs. Through several arguments, the paper explores mythological paradigms, focusing particularly on common heroes in conterminous cultures and looks at the motives, background and traditions of epic traditional songs, which travelled round the region. Many of the motifs of the songs may have originated elsewhere, but they are also found in the Albanian cultural area. Alongside the characters and cultural heroes of Homeric myths in the Albanian epic songs and fairy tales too, there are also some other arguments about the myths originating from the theater or myths inspired by theater motifs. This separation of "theatrical myths" from "Homeric myths" buttress the idea that in addition to singer-bards and itinerant-nomadic rhapsodic, the theater played also a placental role in feeding up and spreading out ancient myths in Albanian epic songs and in oral fairy tales. Among many other cases, there is the one regarding the presence of a variant of the Medea's myth in epic songs, typically sung in the Northern Albania. Besides to the well-known ways of culture emigrating and "rhapsōidos", the article proposes at the same time other ways of migrating the myths away from the known place of creation and their possible arrival in the Albanian Epos, while also highlighting the role of theater and theatrical repertoire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sweet waters is one of the most important assets of our country. Therefore we must protect it and use it with care. But what is happening today with the sweet waters in our country? Who handles the studies and the use of the waters (in a comprehensive manner at national level) in order to get the best of them? Who deals with their administration and their protection? The authors deal with these questions and many others in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is aims to record and evaluate the current environmental situation in Albania's hydrographic network, and present an integrated platform with the measures to be taken in the direction of an effective management of national waters for a more effective impact on the green economy and sustainable development. For this study were used hydrometric monitoring factual information and studies, scientific monographs, reports, etc. hydrological. accomplished during the last 10 years 'from scientific institutions programs Interrek III World Bank, REC, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through this article the author aims to describe the theoretical pillars and also the concrete directions of the new economic model that Albania should follow, based on the actual situation of the Albanian economy and also on the European and global experience. The author analyses the issue of the Albanian economic transition and presents a set of conclusions from this 20 years history of success and failures. The issue of the new economic model, its vision and structure but also other important issues such as the priorities of the country's development (in a regional and global context), the importance of the sustainable economic growth connected with the employment, the deep structural reforms, the green economy, the education and innovation follow the first theoretical part of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]