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Dr Gëzim Alpion

Journalism

Dr Alpion’s articles, stories and features have appeared in several local, national and international newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, The Middle East Times, Iran Daily, The Birmingham Post, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Palatinate and On Magazine.

Most of Dr Alpion’s journalistic work is about issues related to paradigms of identity. In the following publications he often highlights stereotypical images of and biased attitudes towards ‘outsiders’ (mainly from the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Middle East) in the British, European and Western media and in English literature. 

  • ‘Illiterate polyglots’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 27 April – 3 May 1993, p. 13.

  • ‘An interview with Mohammed Ali’s ghost’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 8 – 14 June 1993, p. 12.

  • ‘The Nubian doorman’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 15 – 21 June 1993, p. 12.

  • ‘The peasant bowab’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 22 – 28 June 1993, p. 12.

  • ‘The simsars in their prime’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 29 June – 5 July 1993, p. 13.

  • ‘Today’s bowab’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 6 – 12 July 1993, p. 12.

  • ‘When in Rome’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 20 – 26 July 1993, p. 12.

  • ‘Back to the army’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 27 July – 2 August 1993, p. 12.

  • ‘The computer chronicle’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 3 – 9 August 1993, p. 14.

  • ‘Enslaved by the slaves’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 3 – 9 August 1993, p. 16.

  • ‘Complete apathy’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 10 – 16 August 1993, p. 12.

  • ‘Cultural invasion’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 17 – 23 August 1993, p. 13.

  • ‘Cracked but not broken’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 24 – 30 August 1993, p. 12. 

  • ‘The Bride of Hapi’, By Gëzim Alpion and Middle East Times Staff, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 31 August – 6 September 1993, pp. 1, 3.

  • ‘Becoming foreign to become Egyptian’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 31 August – 6 September 1993, p. 12. 

  • ‘Power returns to the people – the making of Egypt’s politicians’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 7 – 13 September 1993, p. 19.

  • ‘Egypt for the Egyptians’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 14 – 20 September 1993, p. 12.

  • ‘Try “I don’t know”’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 14 – 20 September 1993, p. 14.

  • ‘The genesis of Egyptian coffee shops’, Middle East Times (Cairo, Egypt), 23 – 29 May 1994, p. 6.

  • ‘The genesis of Miss Universe’, On Magazine (Durham, UK), 8.1., May 1994, p. 8; reprinted as ‘The Bride of Hapi’ in ON Magazine (Durham, UK), 8 Fresher’s Issue, October 1994, p. 6. 

  • ‘The Nilotic Arusa’, On Magazine (Durham, England), 8 Fresher’s Issue, October 1994, p. 7.

  • ‘The drowning of the rite’, On Magazine (Durham, UK), 8.3., November 1994, p. 10. 

  • ‘The resurrection of the rite’, On Magazine (Durham, UK), 8.3., November 1994, p. 11.

  •  ‘The infant rebel’, On Magazine (Durham, UK), 8.4., December 1994, pp. 12 – 14.

  • ‘The virgin sinners’, On Magazine (Durham, UK), 9.2., December 1995, pp. 18 – 19.

  • ‘The shelling of the Sphinx’, On Magazine (Durham, UK), Part I, 11.4., March 1997, pp. 23 – 25.

  • ‘The shelling of the Sphinx’, On Magazine (Durham, UK), Part II, 11.5., June 1997, pp. 17 – 19.

  • ‘Albania’s sorry century’, Palatinate (Durham, UK), 13 June 1997, p. 6.

  • ‘Why Britain can be so proud of its role in the Kosovan conflict’, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, UK), 21 June, 1999, p. 6.

  • ‘Images of Albania and Albanians in English literature – from Edith Durham to J. K. Rowling’, BESA Journal (Truro, UK), Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2002, pp. 30-34.

  • ‘Baron Franz Nopcsa and his ambition for the Albanian throne’, BESA Journal (Truro, UK), Vol. 6, No. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 25-32.

  • ‘Mother Teresa and the Balkans DNA politics.’ BESA Journal (Truro, UK), Vol. 7, No. 2, 2003, pp. 28-30.

  • ‘America must grasp world’s complexity’, The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, UK), 22 May 2003, p 13. http://www.highbeam.com

  • ‘Racism of a different hue’, The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, UK), 5 July 2003, p. 9. http://www.highbeam.com

  • ‘Political correctness stifles debate’, Spiked Magazine (London, UK), 24 July 2003. www.spiked-online.com

  • ‘The mother who cared for the shunned’, The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, UK), 5 September, 2003, p. 11. http://www.highbeam.com

  • ‘Oh! not Calcutta’, The Guardian (London and Manchester, UK), 6 September, 2003, p. 25. http://www.guardian.co.uk Also printed in Iran Daily (Teheran, Iran), 8 September 2003, p. 7.

  • ‘A corner of Europe still waiting for peace’, The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, UK), 8 December 2003, p. 10. http://www.highbeam.com

  • ‘A rich land where poverty is the norm’, The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, UK), 8 December 2003, p. 10. http://www.highbeam.com 

  • ‘Why human rights must never just be selective’, The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, UK), 31 January 2004, p. 8. http://www.highbeam.com

  • ‘A fairytale land that we just don’t live in’, (The Birmingham Post debate: ‘Why American TV is thinking out of the box’), The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, UK), 15 April 2005, p. 4. http://www.highbeam.com

  • ‘Small nations, big names: The Albanians and their international high-flyers’, Light Magazine (London, UK), No. 1. March-June 2005, pp. 29-30.