Donika bardha biography of william

Donika Bardha AHRP Director - Founder Albanian Arts Foundation and the Albanian Aid Society; Real Estate Developer.

In 2001, director Fatmir Koçi and Albanian-American producer Donika Bardha spent months in the Albanian State Film Archive's vaults reviewing copious film.

David is photographed with fellow former Headmasters Peter Dix and Stephen Ilett, and current Headmaster Titus Mills, at Port Regis in 2022.

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A H R P

THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR:

NEW CUSTODIANS OF THE

AHRP COLLECTION OF TESTIMONIES

WE’VE DONE IT! The Albanian Human Rights Project (AHRP) accomplished its goal of filming testimonies of 100 survivors of political persecution in Albania from 1945-1991. With such an accomplishment, the future of these testimonies will have to be addressed. After several years as partners, the collection of the filmed testimonies was gifted to the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Los Angeles for preservation, scholarly study, education, and inspiration for generations to come.

The mission of the Wende Museum is to preserve Cold-War-era art, culture, and history from Eastern European countries under the 1955 Warsaw Pact (including Albania), and inspire a broad understanding of the period, and explore its enduring legacy.

The Wende Museum’s work falls into four main categories:

To collect and preserve artwork, artif

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Albania Today: A Portrait of Post-Communist Turbulence 9780755619740, 9781850438595

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List of Illustrations

1. Orosh,1994 First Easter mass since 1967 2. Easter worshippers at the ruined abbey of Orosh, 1994 3. Wedding guests 4. Women’s burden:wood collecting 5. Return at dusk spinning 6. Cradle-ties maker drinking coffee

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“It was a small shabby sort of place. Land was short, jobs were scarce, politics was unstable, health was poor, prices were rising, and life was altogether far from promising, a kind of agitated stagnancy.” Clifford Geertz, 1993, Local Knowledge

1 Introduction

i. Doing Ethnography in Albania A few years ago, a Greek political scientist on hearing that I was working in Albania, exclaimed: “That must be an anthropologist’s paradise.” The implication was that formerly isolated and undiscovered Albania afforded the sort of ﬁeldwork experienced by ethnographers at the beginning of the twentieth century; the d

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Armen Alajian AHRP Director - Proprietor, Artobrick Manufacturing

Donika Bardha AHRP Director - Founder Albanian Arts Foundation and the Albanian Aid Society; Real Estate Developer

Ed Birce AHRP Chairman of the Board - Civil Rights Officer, Washington, D.C.

Rose Dosti AHRP President - reporter, Author, Fulbright scholar, Lecturer

Paulina Kalaj AHRP Director - Director of Communications & Media Relations

Katherine Richards AHRP Director - University Librarian, Retired

Mary Thomas AHRP Director - M.ED. Educator and Advocate

Arta Zeciri AHRP Director - Student Marketing; Account Manager

HONORARY BOARD

Lillian Appleby - Branch Manager, LPL Investments

Vehbi Bajrami - Publisher, Illyria Albanian Newspaper

Evelyn dem Wolfe - reporter and Author

Bruria Finkel - International Artist and Curator

Agim Karagjozi - Former President of Vatra the Pan-Albanian Foundation.