Fatos Tarifa

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Fatos Tarifa (born 21 August 1954) is a

social scientist and a former diplomat from Albania
.

Education

Tarifa has a double doctorate, with a Ph.D. in Sociology from the

Fulbright Fellowship at the Department of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina
.

Career

Tarifa served as Albanian ambassador to

.

Tarifa has authored, co-authored and edited 45 books and more than 90 journal articles. His books and articles have covered topics ranging from democratic transition and social issues in Eastern Europe to Human development, and current international affairs. In 1998 he became the founding Editor of "Sociological Analysis", an innovative, international scholarly journal published at Chapel Hill, NC, which he edited for 15 years. He serves as a member of the International Advisory Board of the "Journal of Social Sciences" and the "Journal of Applied Social Science".

Dr. Tarifa will probably be best remembered as the leader of a campaign to introduce the discipline of sociology into higher education in Albania. He is widely considered to be "the founder of sociological studies in Albania, and one of the country's most prominent social scientists".[citation needed] Tarifa has "already earned the title of father of Albanian sociology, a moniker he has generally resisted".[citation needed]

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