Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 12, Summer 2019

Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 12, Summer 2019

Cricket in Albania - Tom Winnifrith enjoys in an impromptu cricket match when his bus breaks down in Ballsh.

The Strange Tale of the Dictator and the Beauty of Strum - John Watkins describes how one of Albania’s best-loved folk songs, Bukuroshja e Strumit (The Beauty of Strum) owes its existence to Enver Hoxha’s faulty memory.

The office of bajraktar and its place within the Albanian agnatic social system - Michael Gunn explains how the office of bajraktar came into being in the mid-sixteenth century, as the “war-chief” of a bajrak, an Ottoman administrative unit.

Looking for Albania’s First Woman Director: Xhanfise Keko’s Feminism through a Cinema of Childhood Under Communism - Fjoralba Miraka argues that Keko’s representations of childhood during the communist years also offer images of women’s experiences as mothers, wives, and workers. (This article was first published as a paper at the fourth Doing Women’s Film and Television Conference in May 2018.)

Book review: Primrose Peacock reviews Metamorphosis, The Reuse of Albanian Bunkers from the Communist Era by Robert Hackman.

Visit to Theth - Rodney Oliver is bowled over by Theth’s mountain scenery and traditional architecture.

Letter from Tirana - “Nevinson"

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