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“BEXIT” - a nation in the making?
by Stuart Notholt photos courtesy the author Bektashi World Centre, Tirana Most people familiar with Albania will know of the Bektashi,...
Freedom, transformation … and spies
by Alison Carter photos courtesy the author Freedom and Transformation Festival, Durrës In her prize-winning memoir, "Free: Coming of Age...
"Peeping Tourist"
by Carolyn Perry photos courtesy the author “Peeping Tourist” Museum Opening Hours 9.30 – 4.30, Monday to Saturday Entrance Fee: €4...
Celebrating Arbëreshë Identity in Calabria
by Kate Holman photos courtesy the author Scanderbeg bust in Civita, Calabria As the Italian peninsula narrows towards its southern tip,...
Albania, 1997
by Penny Munden In January 1997 I headed out to Albania to start working with a Christian mission in the southern town of Gjirokastër,...
Marubi National Museum of Photography
by John Watkins On 13 June, the AAA and the Albanian Embassy hosted an evening devoted to Shkodër and the Marubi National Museum of...
Epidamnos: A Settlement Hidden By Time
by Dr Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia Institute of Archaeology, Tirana Epidamnos is the name of an Illyrian city, known on the eastern shore of...
Tributes to Ismail Kadare, 28 January 1936 - 1 July 2024
Robert Wilton is a regular contributor to the Anglo-Albanian Gazette . He is a novelist and translator who has lived in Kosovo and...
Film Review: Albanians at the London Film Festival
by John Watkins Although there were no Albanian or Kosovan films being shown at this year’s London Film Festival, three films featured...
Poem: In memory, Arshi Pipa
by Patricia (Tishy) Nugee These beech leaves have almost not quite caught fire With colours snatched from sunsets over Shala. Bright...
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