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Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 30, Autumn 2025
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 30, Autumn 2025 AAA AGM - Joanna Hanson summarises the AAA's AGM held on 4 November 2025. Profile - Sara Gezdari - Phil Logoreci hears Albanian-born Sara Gezdari talking about her political ambitions in the UK. Balkan Symposium: The Past, Present and the Future of Balkan Studies - Dr. Bavjola Gami Shatro discusses the symposium held at the University of Mississippi in October 2025. Tribute - Dhimitër Anagnosti - author and film-maker Ben Apo


Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 29, Summer 2025
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 29, Summer 2025 Edith Durham: a celebration - in March 2025, the AAA hosted a major event at the Kosovan Embassy about the life of Edith Durham - Adam Yamey provides an overview of the event plus contributions from Dame Joanna Lumley, John Hodgson, Elizabeth Gowing and Joanna Hanson Theatre review - Tomorr Kokona reviews Vrasje në vjeshtë (Murder in Autumn) at Tirana's Art Turbina. Book review - Stuart Notholt reviews Intrigued in Albania by D


Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 28, Spring 2025
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 28, Spring 2025 80th Anniversary of Albanian Liberation - to mark the anniversary, the Gazette republished “The New Albania”, written by Lovett F Edwards. Edwards visited Albania in December 1945, thirteen months after liberation. (This article was originally published in Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society.) Aubrey Herbert and the “Other” Britain: A Turkish Perspective - John Watkins reports on a talk about Aubrey Herbe


Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 27, Autumn 2024
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 27, Autumn 2024 AAA AGM - Joanna Hanson summarises the AAA's AGM held on 26 September 2024. “BEXIT” - a nation in the making? - Stuart Notholt discusses plans to set up a Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order in Tirana. Freedom, transformation … and spies - Alison Carter reports on “Freedom and Transformation”, a cultural festival held in Tirana and Durrës. International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture - Stuart Nicholson


Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 26, Summer 2024
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 26, Summer 2024 Tributes - Ismail Kadare - novelist and translator Robert Wilton, historian Jordan Lancaster and AAA Chairman, Stephen Nash with their tributes to Albania’s most famous author who died on 1 July 2024. Poem - Even when my memory by Ismail Kadare, translated by Robert Wilton Tribute - Lord Rothschild - Stephen Nash remembers Lord Rothschild, one of the founders of the Butrint Foundation, who died in February 2024. Tribute - M


Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 25, Spring 2024
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 25, Spring 2024 Tirana, Capital of Culture and Dialogue - in February, it was announced that Tirana and Alexandria would be the first-ever Mediterranean Capitals of Culture. Carolyn Perry outlines what this will mean for Tirana. A Storm in the Western Balkans - Joanna Hanson reports on a Chatham House discussion about the security challenges facing the region. Albanian Studies in the Global Context - John Watkins reports on a conference at


Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 24, Autumn 2023
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 24, Autumn 2023 AAA AGM - Joanna Hanson summarises the AGM held on 28th September 2023. British Cultural Week in Albania, 4th-11th September 2023 - Carolyn Perry highlights some of the country-wide events celebrating British culture. Albania Revisited - Xan Smiley, the Economist’s Editor-at-Large, first went to Albania in 1992 with his father, David Smiley. Here he talks about revisiting Albania in 2023. Poem - In memory, Arshi Pipa by Pat


Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 23, Summer 2023
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 23, Summer 2023 Celebrating the Coronation in Tirana - Carolyn Perry was at the British Residence for the Royal Garden Party celebrating the coronation of King Charles III. Pride and Shame - Luke Dowding looks forward to a time when Albania’s LGBTQ+ community can take pride in their identities. Dealing with Shocks at the Gates of the EU - John Watkins reports on a talk a the LSE given by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor the Bank of Albania. Mr Sejko ou


Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 22, Spring 2023
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 22, Spring 2023 Flag Day celebrations in London - a report on a special Albanian concert at St Augustine’s School in Kilburn to mark the 110th anniversary of Albanian independence. Remembrance Day, Tirana - a report on the ceremony attended by British Ambassador Alastair King-Smith and German Ambassador, Peter Zingraf. Book review - Joanna Hanson reviews Like a Prisoner - Stories of Endurance by Fatos Lubonja. John Hodgson translated Like
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