Dr Gëzim Alpion
Reviews of Dr Alpion’s Publications (a complete bibliography)
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- Ahmed, Rashmee Z. (TNT) ‘Mother Teresa was used by India: says Author Dr Gëzim Alpion’. The Times of India. (Mumbai/Bombay, India) 16 October 2004; ‘Book questions the Mother miracle’. The Times of India. 17 October 2004. [The feature also appeared in several papers in Calcutta/Kolkata and across India.] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- Arnot, Chris. Interview. ‘Work in progress: A new study goes back to Mother Teresa’s roots’. The Guardian (London and Manchester, UK) 1 November 2005, p. 12. http://www.guardian.co.uk
- ‘Asylum Seekers Take Centre Stage in Birmingham’. www.hero.ac.uk
- Blackledge, Adrian. Review of Foreigner Complex. Raw Edge Magazine. (Birmingham, UK) ISSN 1361-2565. Autumn/Winter 2003. Issue 17. pp. 23-24. http://www.lit-net.org/remhp.htm
- ‘City lights: ‘A city’s academic’s play…’’. The Birmingham Voice (Birmingham, UK), 13 March 2003, p. 3. http://www.birmingham.gov.uk
- Collins, Tony. ‘Asylum in focus on the stage’. Birmingham Evening Mail. (Birmingham, UK) 13 December 2004. http://www.highbeam.com
- Collins, Tony, ‘Fact-finding’ (on Dr Alpion’s lectures at the University of Prishtina, Kosova: 27-31 October 2003). Birmingham Evening Mail. (Birmingham, UK) 29 December 2003, p. 5. http://www.highbeam.com
- Collins, Tony. Review of Foreigner Complex. ‘City expert’s Egypt insight’. Birmingham Evening Mail. (Birmingham, UK) 19 November 2002, p. 9. http://www.highbeam.com
- Collins, Tony. Review of Vouchers. ‘Curtain up on grittier side of life’. Birmingham Evening Mail. (Birmingham, UK) 24 October 2001, p. 13. http://www.highbeam.com
- Collins, Tony. ‘Teresa “spin”’. Birmingham Evening Mail. (Birmingham, UK) 9 November 2004. http://www.highbeam.com
- Collins, Tony. ‘The Mother of all spin doctors’. Birmingham Evening Mail (Birmingham, UK) 15 October 2004, p. 4. http://www.highbeam.com
- Collins, Tony. ‘Write on…’. Birmingham Evening Mail (Birmingham, UK) 19 November 2002 [the news about the publication of Foreigner Complex: Essays and Fiction About Egypt appeared in two editions.] http://www.highbeam.com
- Collins, Tony, Richard Jackson, Terry Grimley and Richard Williamson. ‘Praise for Vouchers’. In Foreigner Complex: Essays and Fiction About Egypt. By Gëzim Alpion. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham CPS, 2002, p. vii. http://www.sociology.bham.ac.uk/gezim_alpion
- D’Souza, Henry (Archbishop Emeritus; former Archbishop of Kolkata, India). ‘Mother Teresa – Media Icon and Saint’. The Herald, (Calcutta/Kolkata, India) Vol. CXXXXI. No. 23. 10-10 June 2005, p. 6.
- Dingley, Anna J. and the University of Birmingham Press Office. ‘Asylum Seekers Take Centre Stage’. Buzz (Birmingham, UK) Issue 54. Vol. 4. December 2004, p. 6. [based on the press release ‘Asylum Seekers Take Centre Stage in Birmingham’, issued by the University of Birmingham Press Office on 9 November 2004.] http://www.buzz.bham.ac.uk
- Dingley, Anna J. and the University of Birmingham Press Office. ‘Mother Teresa – Saint or Spinner?’ Buzz (Birmingham, UK) Issue 52. Vol. 4 November 2004, p. 2. [based on the press release ‘Mother Teresa – Saint or Spinner?’ issued by the University of Birmingham Press Office on 14 October 2004.] http://www.buzz.bham.ac.uk
- Edgar, David, J. T. Boulton, Adrian Stokes, Tom Gorman and Michael W. Thomas. ‘Instead of a Preface’. Vouchers. By Gëzim Alpion. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham CPS, 2001. xi. http://www.sociology.bham.ac.uk/gezim_alpion
- Flynn, Andrew. ‘Well read new play’. The Huddersfield Daily Examiner. (Huddersfield, UK) Friday, 15 March 2002, p. 10. http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk
- Fouskas, Vassilis K. ‘Editorial’. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. Vol. 6, No. 3, December 2004, pp. 209-210. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
- Hamza, Isaac. Interview. ‘Mother Teresa: Saint or Spinner? – Study says late nun was very media-conscious’. Asian Times (London, UK) No. 1112, 19 October 2004, p. 2. http://www.atimes.com
- Hazlewood, Phil, PA News. ‘Mother Teresa ‘Was A Pr Guru’’. Scotland on Sunday. (UK) 14 October 2004. http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com
- ICNS. ‘Mother Teresa’s Admirers Hope for Speedy Sainthood’. Indian Catholic. July 2005. www.theindiancatholic.com; http://www.theindiancatholic.com
- Gledhill, Ruth. ‘Mother Teresa “played media to craft image”’. The Times. (London: UK) 15 October 2004, p. 4. http://www.timesonline.co.uk
- Grimley, Terry. Review of Foreigner Complex. The Birmingham Post. (Birmingham, UK) No. 44,544. 18 January 2003, p. 49. http://www.highbeam.com
- Grimley, Terry. Interview and Review of Vouchers. ‘Struggling to make the club less exclusive.’ The Birmingham Post. (Birmingham, UK) 31 October 2001, p. 2. http://www.highbeam.com
- Jackson, Richard. Interview and Review of Vouchers. ‘New play lifts lid on refugee plight’. MetroNews. (Birmingham, UK) Issue 529. 23 August 2001, p. 25. http://www.infoxone.net/main/a54m125.htm
- Jacques, Rich. Review of Foreigner Complex. Redbrick. (Birmingham, UK) 25th – 31st October 2002, p. 12. http://students.bugs.bham.ac.uk/redbrick
- Jiggins, Bob. ‘Little call for pride in a miserable War: NATO motives queried – and did anyone win in Kosovo?’ The Huddersfield Daily Examiner. (Huddersfield, UK) No. 44,691. Thursday, 24 June 1999, p. 11. [The article was written in response to Dr Alpion’s article ‘Why Britain can be so proud of its role in the Kosovan conflict’. The Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Monday, 21 June 1999, p. 6.] http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk
- Karran, Kampta. Review of Vouchers. Raw Edge Magazine. (Birmingham, UK) Spring/Summer 2002 ISSN 1361-2565. Issue 14. pp. 25-26. http://www.lit-net.org/remhp.htm
- Langrish, Christina. Review of Vouchers. BESA Journal. (Truro, UK) ISSN 1366-8536. Vol. 6. No.1. Winter 2002. pp. 37-38.
- Longstaff, Andy. Review of Vouchers. Redbrick. (Birmingham, UK) Issue 1198. 16th - 22nd November 2001, p. 9. http://students.bugs.bham.ac.uk/redbrick
- ‘More Light On Mother Teresa’s Early Life’. Indian Currents. Issue 30, 24 July 2005.
- ‘Mother Teresa image ‘spun’’. The Birmingham Post, (Birmingham, UK) 15 October 2004, p. 5. http://www.highbeam.com
- ‘Mother Teresa ‘was a PR guru’’. 15 October 2004. http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk
- Mullins, Michael. ‘Bene Dictions – Catholic Media Watch: Demonising Opus Dei’. Online Catholics (an independent Australian e-journal) Issue 24. 3 November 2004. http://www.onlinecatholics.com.au
- Norton, John D. Review of Foreigner Complex. BESA Journal. (Truro, UK) ISSN 1366-8536. Vol.6. No.4. Autumn 2002. pp. 33-34.
- ‘Nun was PR expert’. Evening Advertiser. (Swindon, UK). 15 October 2004, p. 6. http://www.adver.co.uk
- O’Loughlin, Damian. Interview and Review of Vouchers. ‘Shamed by vouchers: Author highlights plight of refugees.’ The Birmingham News. (Birmingham, UK) 31 October 2002, pp. 18-19.
- Paul, C. M. ‘Mother Teresa Did Not Hail From Peasant Class, Says Albanian-born Scholar’. (Calcutta/Kolkata, India) (SAR NEWS: South Asia Religious News Service) 4 July 2005. http://www.goanet.org ; http://www.theindiancatholic.com ; http://www.mangalorean.com
- Pelham, Nicolas. Preface to Foreigner Complex. By Gëzim Alpion. Birmingham, UK: Birmingham University CPS, 2002. pp. xiii-xvii. http://www.sociology.bham.ac.uk/gezim_alpion
- ‘Politics, prayer, popery, patriotism and PR’. The Agonist. October 2004. http://www.agonist.org
- UCAN. ‘Scholar Claims His Research Fills Gaps in Blessed Teresa’s Early Life’. (Calcutta/Kolkata, India) 8 July 2005. http://www.rveritas-asia.org ; http://www.theindiancatholic.com ; http://www.mangalorean.com
- Sircar, Mabanita. Interview. ‘Author taint on Mother Teresa’. The Hindustan Times. (Delhi Edition) 17 October 2004. p. 6; ‘Mother Teresa was PR guru, says author’. The Hindustan Times, Asian Diaspora, UK Edition. 18 October 2004. http://www.hindustantimes.com
- Stokes, Adrian. ‘A Note on the Author’. Introduction to Foreigner Complex. By Gëzim Alpion. Birmingham, UK: Birmingham University CPS, 2002. pp. ix-xi. http://www.sociology.bham.ac.uk/gezim_alpion
- ‘Teresa, PR guru’. Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, UK) 15 October 2004, p. 4. http://www.highbeam.com
- ‘Teresa ‘myth’’. Press & Journal. (Aberdeen, UK). 15 October 2004, p. 9. http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk
- ‘The saint created by a PR machine’. The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 October 2004. http://www.smh.com.au
- Thomas, Michael W. ‘A Word About the Author’. Preface to Vouchers. By Gëzim Alpion. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham CPS, 2001. pp. xi-xii. http://www.sociology.bham.ac.uk/gezim_alpion
- Williamson, Richard. Interview and
Review of Vouchers. ‘Fallen hero: how the clown prince of Albania
got right up the nose of his greatest fans.’ Sunday Mercury.
(Birmingham, UK) 9 September 2001, pp. 45, 46.
http://www.highbeam.com
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