Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 5, Dita e Flamurit 2016
Anglo-Albanian Gazette Issue 5, Dita e Flamurit 2016
Migjeni - Adam Yamey reports on a talk by Robert Wilton about Migjeni’s poetry.
Scanderbeg Principe d’Albania - literary researcher Olimpia Gargano explains how a play about Scanderbeg was staged in the eighteenth century at the Ducal Theatre in Modena.
Lapidars - Michael Harrison hunts down some of Albania’s finest communist-era monuments known as lapidars.
Cross-Border Balkans Peace Park Project - Antonia Young explains how the Cross-Border Balkans Peace Park Project (B3P) is promoting sustainable tourism in Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo.
Tribes and Clans: Traditional Social Groupings in Albania - Michael Gunn lays out the history and structure of Albania’s tribes and clans.
Saze Comes to Britain - music producer Joe Boyd describes Albanian saze music and looks forward to recording some of Albania’s best saze singers and musicians.
Book review - Frank O’Reilly reviews Identity in a Post-communist Balkan State: An Albanian Village Study by Douglas Saltmarshe.
Olsi Qinami - John Hodgson talks to Albanian conductor Olsi Qinami about his early life and musical influences.
The Chaotic Course of Albanian Literature - John Watkins reports on a conference at the British Library about Balkan literature. In a keynote speech, Robert Elsie outlined the development of Albanian literature from the sixteen century to the present.
Film review - John Watkins reviews Balkan Spirit (2013) directed by Hermann Vaske. Vaske interviews Balkan musicians, artists and Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, as he tries to pin down what is meant by "Balkan spirit".
Letter from Tirana - “Nevinson”
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