Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 2, Summer 2015
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 2, Summer 2015
Bernstein and Besa - Adam Yamey reports on a talk by Albanian Ambassador Mal Berisha about Herman Bernstein, Jewish-born Albanian Ambassador to the US, 1930-1933. The talk was followed by a screening of Besa: The Promise (2012) directed by Rachel Goslins.
Mrs Hasluck - Adam Yamey reports on a talk about the anthropologist Margaret Hasluck given by Dr David Shankland from the Royal Anthropological Institute.
A Corpse in the Legation - Fatmir Terziu reveals how he found inspiration for his novel Korjillat (The Cranes) in a real life story about the death of a beautiful Albanian woman in London in 1932.
Exhibition review - Adam Yamey visits Painting Albania, an exhibition of paintings by Bashkim Izano inspired by Edward Lear’s Journals of a Landscape Painter in the Balkans published in 1851.
Book launch - Dr Enver Bytyçi introduces his new book, Coercive Diplomacy of NATO in Kosovo, at the Embassy of Kosovo, part of the Albanian-British Festival of Culture.
Villa with Star - John Watkins is shown a collection of communist-era memorabilia at Villa with Star on Rruga e Dibrës, Tirana. The collection includes a stereogram that had once belonged to Politburo member, Manush Myftiu.
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