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 UCL’s SSEES looking at the way Albanian is taught around the world.

Albanians in Greece: Migration, Memory and Art - Joan Pearce goes to the Hellenic Centre in London for a discussion about the experiences of Albanian migrants living to Greece.

Book review - Joanna Hanson reviews A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare.

Book review - Antonia Young reviews Enver Hoxha’s Long Shadow: Travels in Albania by John Watkins.

Film review - Stuart Notholt reviews Sytë e Shpirtit (Eyes of the Soul), a docudrama about how a Dutch optician, Paul Luif, became friends with Osman Kazazi in jail for more than forty years during the communist regime.  

In Conversation - Novelist Ag Apolloni talks to translator Robert Wilton about his new book, Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame.  

Albanianada - former Albanian Ambassador to the UK, Mal Berisha, has compiled a tribute to historian Sir Noel Malcolm.

Albania’s Millennium Stamp Issues - Rodney Oliver tells the story of the Bell of Peace featured on a set of commemorative Millennium stamps.

An Albanian Buried in Surat - Adam Yamey visits a museum in Surat, Gujerat dedicated to Khwaja Safar Suleimani, an Ottoman general killed in 1546 who was likely to have been of Albanian origin.

Letter from the Albanian lands - “Nevinson”

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