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Mathieu Lemoine reviews Lea Ypi’s "Free: Coming of Age at the End of History", recounting her life during Albania’s transition to democracy.

Ignacio Hutin travels to Gjirokastër, the birthplace of Enver Hoxha and a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its Ottoman architecture

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Mud Sweeter Than Honey," an oral history of Communist Albania into the 1990s

Pyke Haans discusses the nation-building projects and national narratives present in the Balkans, and how they can cause more harm than good

Katherine Leung interviews Giulia Blocal about her work for our exhibit Eastern Walls.

This month, Owen Howells take a look at the newly established Open Balkan Initiative aimed at further cooperation and integration of the Western Balkans and potentially speed up the EU accession [...]

One of Edi Rama's election promises in Albania's national parliamentary elections earlier this year was to keep guiding Albania towards EU accession - how is it going so far? By Xhorxhina Molla.

"In the Western Balkans, there is little doubt that education remains hostage to political interests and ironically, is nobody’s responsibility" Opinion piece by Francesco Trupia and Gentiola Madhi

‘The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left—the King of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.’ So King Farouk of [...]

Prime Minister Edi Rama is the author of a new way of doing politics in Albania, focusing on aesthetics and strategic communication, which gave him the name of ‘pop-politician’. The astonishing [...]