On August 25, 2024, researcher Genciana Abazi-Egro, who for years was a scientific worker at the Institute of Linguistics and Literature (Albanian Academy of Sciences), passed away at the age of 53.
The news was made public through a sad announcement by the Institute of Linguistics and Literature at the Academy of Sciences where Genciana Abazi-Egro was a member.
Genciana Abazi-Egro has been an established researcher in the field of textology and oriental studies, on sofa literature and the main figures of the literary current of authors who wrote in the Arabic alphabet.
Genciana Egro is the author of two important critical editions of the works of Nezim Berat (2009) and Hasan Zyko Kamberi (2017), published by the Institute of Linguistics and Literature (Department of Literary Studies).
Genciana Egro is the author of a significant number of scientific writings and articles on authors, phenomena and works related to Albanian literature written in the Arabic alphabet, but also the scientific director of several doctoral theses successfully defended at the doctoral studies school near the Center of Albanological Studies, Tirana.
A good part of her articles on these fields of study are published in the magazines "Philological Studies" and "Historical Studies".
Since January 2017, she has been the head of the Critical Analysis of Discourse and Semiotics courses at the European University of Tirana.
Her death is a great loss for her relatives and for the scientific community to which she belonged.