Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 27, Autumn 2024
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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 gives a student’s-eye view of the seminar hosted by the University of Prishtina.
Tribute - John Newall - John Newall, a life member of the AAA, died in July 2024. He and his wife Venetia wrote “Crossing into Albania” in September 1963. (This article was originally published in Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society.)
Book review - Jordan Lancaster reviews Alice in Albania: 250 Adventures by Alice Taylor.
Book review - Antonia Young reviews An Albanian in India: The Life and Adventures of Khwaja Safar by Adam Yamey.
Book review - Ann Morgan reviews Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame, by Ag Apolloni, translated by Robert Wilton.
Book review - Dr Bavjola Gami Shatro discusses her book, Essays on the Awareness of Loss in Contemporary Albanian Literature: Voices that Come from the Abyss.
“Peeping Tourist” - Carolyn Perry visits a new museum in Durrës about tourism in communist Albania.
Celebrating Arbëreshë Identity in Calabria - Kate Holman reports on the Arbereshë communities of Calabria.
Albania 1997 in photographs - a selection of photographs taken by Penny Munden during the unrest in the summer of 1997.
The Vizier’s Bridge - Rodney Oliver discusses a set of stamps issued in Albania in 1922, one of which featured the Vizier’s Bridge in Kukës.
Letter from the Albanian lands - “Nevinson”
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