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Dr Gëzim Alpion 

Select Academic Publications 

Books

  • Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? London and New York: Routledge, 2007 (simultaneously published in the UK, the USA and Canada); Indian Edition (in English), New Delhi: Routledge India, 2008; Italian Edition (in Italian), Rome, 2008.

  • Encounters with Civilizations: From Alexander the Great to Mother Teresa, Kolkata: Meteor Books, 2008.

  • Foreigner Complex: Essays about Egypt, Birmingham: University of Birmingham CPS, 2002.

Articles

  • ‘Media and Celebrity Culture - Subjectivist, Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Approaches to Mother Teresa’s Celebrity Status’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group), Vol. 20, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 541-557.

  • ‘Western Media and the European “Other” - Images of Albania in the British Press in the New Millennium’, Albanian Journal of Politics (Published by Globic Press, Chapel Hill, NC), Vol. 1, Issue 1, September 2005, pp. 7-27.

  • ‘Media, Ethnicity and Patriotism - the Balkans “Unholy War” for the Appropriation of Mother Teresa’, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans (Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group), Vol. 6, No. 3, December 2004, pp. 227-243.

  • ‘Brain Down the Drain - an Exposé of Social Closure in Western Academia’, Albanian Journal of Politics (Published by Globic Press, Chapel Hill, NC) Vol. 4. Issue 1, 2008.

  • Reviews

    • Review of The Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans, by James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007, in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans (Published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group), Vol. 9, No. 3, December 200

    • Review of Mother Teresa: A Saint from Skopje, by Hiromi Josepha Kudo, Gujarat, India: GSP Anand, 2006, in Albanian Journal of Politics, (Published by Globic Press, Chapel Hill, NC) Vol. 2, Issue 2, December 2006, pp. 120-122.

    • Review of Between Morality and the Law: Corruption, Anthropology and Comparative Society. Ed. Italo Pardo, Aldershot, UK & Burlington, USA: Ashgate, in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Published by Blackwell Publishing), Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 231-232. 

    • Review of The Search for Greater Albania, by Paulin Kola, London: Hurst, 2003, in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations Journal (Published by Routledge, Taylor and Fra