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Paul Alkazraji

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Paul Alkazraji (first name Muthena) worked as a freelance journalist in the UK from the mid-nineties. His articles were published in Christianity Magazine, The Christian Herald, The Church Times, The Baptist Times and other publications. His travel articles were also published in The Independent. His first book Love Changes Everything, a collection of seven testimonies, was published by Scripture Union in 2001. His second book Heart of a Hooligan, a biography of ex-football hooligan Dave Jeal, was published by Highland Books in 2000. His third book Christ and the Kalashnikov, a biography of missionaries Ian and Caralee Loring, was published by Zondervan in 2001 (all on goodreads).

From 2004 to 2010 he was editor and publisher of Ujëvarë mag
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Loja e Benit. Një tregim i shkurtër nga Paul Alkazraji

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Luani ngjeshi marshin e Mercedesit nga i dyti në të katërtin dhe filloi të voziste vrullshëm në krahun e kundërt të rrugës, drejt aeroportit. Parakaloi një varg makinash duke u ndezur të gjatat. Xhuda ndjeu të zhytej më thellë në sediljen e lëkurës për shkak të përshpejtimit. Para tyre, në qiellin e ndezur në të verdhë dhe lila poshtë hapësirës së zezë, panë dritat e bardha që pulsonin nën kra Read more of this blog post »
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Published on January 30, 2025 07:28 Tags: albania, migration, rinas, tirana, tiranaairport
Average rating: 3.87 · 108 ratings · 53 reviews · 5 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Silencer

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The Migrant

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Heart of a Hooligan

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Love Changes Everything: Se...

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Paul Alkazraji added a status update: Ten years ago this spring, I set off on a road trip to Athens to write a novel about a young Albanian man missing there in migration… Here are a few tasters on my blog.

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How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith
"4 stars for book 21 in the series. This book, like the others in the series, is a gentle mystery-no sex, violence or bad words. There are 2 issues for Grace Makutsi and Precious Ramotswe to deal with in this book: Charlie, part time employee of the N" Read more of this review »
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Political Visions & Illusions by David T. Koyzis
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You Raise Me Up
With the inauguration of a new US President, there are sincere Christians both celebrating and lamenting US politics with all the heart-felt euphoria and anger of any major sporting fi
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" 'Loja e Benit' nga Paul Alkazraji.

Një tregim e shkurtër e vendosur në Aeroportin Ndërkombëtar të Tiranës.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier... Albania.
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‘Tinker, Tailor...’ is an enduring Cold War thriller given fresh life by the 2011 film and Gary Oldman’s performance as George Smiley: brilliant spy and totally inadequate man
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...’ begins Charles Dickens’ thrilling novel set in England and France during the turbulent ye
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A short story set at Tirana International Airport.

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‘As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke
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“Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.”
Paul Alkazraji, Love Changes Everything: Seven Remarkable Real Life Stories

“He sat down with a dour face. “Ah, Shqipëria!” he said dropping his head. “Albania will never become Albania with Albanians in it!” He glanced at Jude. “Don’t ask.”
Paul Alkazraji, The Silencer

“We can’t all be Byronic adventurers like you Jude. Have you been wrestling with any brigands in the mountains there?”
“No, but you’ve got to watch the drivers! Funny you should mention the poetic lord. He used to take his holidays down here, you know?”
“What… picking up last-minute bargains with ‘EasyFrigate’?”
Paul Alkazraji, The Silencer

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
Lord Byron

“Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. ”
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