TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s ...

In her latest book, ‘Indignity’ (2025), the Albanian political scientist researches and recreates the story of her grandparents, who were persecuted by Enver Hoxha’s regime ...

Under Enver Hoxha, Albania became one of the most isolated and tightly controlled states in the Cold War world. His ...

Littering the Albanian countryside and mountain valleys are hundreds of thousands of little concrete bunkers. These bunkers – bunkerët, were built from the 1960s to the 1980s, during the communist ...

In 1973, when Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship was at its peak, I slipped into Europe’s most isolated country masquerading as a university lecturer. Journalists were routinely denied visas and subterfuge ...

TIRANA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Nexhmije Hoxha, the widow of Albania's Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha, died on Tuesday aged 99, her son said, having fallen dramatically from grace following his death but ...

Enver Hoxha’s empty villa stands in the centre of the revitalised Blloku district of Tirana. Photograph: imageBROKER/Alamy Enver Hoxha’s villa in central Tirana, once sealed off by the Albanian secret ...

Like other powerful women in the traditionally male-dominated societies of the Balkans during the communist era, Nexhmije Hoxha, Albania’s “first lady” for more than 40 years, owed her influence to ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s ...