Joseph Dedvukaj is an Albanian American lawyer with his own practice based in Michigan, which he established in 1994. Dedvukaj cites his wonderful and supportive family as a big reason for his accomplishments. He speaks proudly of his origins and heritage. His parents made their way from Malësia, a region in the Northern Albanian Alps. […]
Emina Cunmulaj lindi në Miçigan dhe u zhvendos në Mal të Zi me prindërit e saj në moshën 5 vjeçare. Ajo u bë pjesë e botës së modelimit në moshën 17 vjeçare. Pasi fitoi konkursin e Elite Model Look Yugoslavia në 2001, Cunmulaj u zhvendos në Nju Jork, ku u angazhua me shumë agjenci ndërkombëtare […]
Born of Albanian parents who emigrated from the Korca Region in the 1920s, Professor Christopher always had a keen interest in Albania, but he was not granted the opportunity to visit the country until 1990. In 1992 – in the early years of transition to Democracy – Peter Christopher and his wife spent nine months […]
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., is an Albanian American Physician and Pharmacologist, a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Phsycology, and a world-renowned pioneer in biochemistry. In 1998, Dr. Murad and two other scientists received the Nobel Prize Medicine and Phsycology for their discovery of the role of nitric oxide in the body as […]
Ekrem Bardha (born 13 May 1933) is an Albanian American businessman, leader of the Albanian National Front in Michigan, co-founder of the National Albanian American Council, and former owner of Illyria Newspaper. He is currently serving as Albania’s Honorary Consul in Michigan and is regarded as one of the most successful Albanians in America.
Bardha has a lifetime as a human rights activist and has met with […]
Rita Ora was born in 1990 in Pristina. When she was one year old, her family decided to move to the United Kingdom. She grew up in West London and attended St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School in Earls Court, following which she graduated from a performing arts school, Sylvia Young Theatre School, […]
Laura Mersini-Houghton is a cosmologist and theoretical physicist and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis, which holds that our universe is one of many. She argues that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug […]
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental […]
Saimir Pirgu figures among the brightest stars in today’s international operatic firmament and has been celebrated at every major international operatic venue, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, the Berlin Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper, the Zurich Opera, Barcelona’s Liceu, the San […]
Joseph DioGuardi (born September 20, 1940) is an American certified public accountant and a Republican politician. DioGuardi served in the House of Representatives representing the 20th Congressional district of New York from 1985 to 1989. He was also the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in New York during the 2010 special election.
DioGuardi, a former partner at Arthur Andersen & Co., also serves as president of the Albanian American Civic League, […]
