The bunkers are a legacy of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, once one of the world’s most isolationist communist ...
Berat, a Unesco World Heritage Site about two hours south of Tirana, Albania’s capital, lines the banks of the river Osum, ...
Survivors of the camp and organisations that research Albania’s repressive communist past have been urging the authorities to preserve the now-dilapidated Tepelena camp and turn into a museum of ...
The Prushi family have been guardians of the Koran for generations - Copyright AFP Adnan Beci The Prushi family have been guardians of the Koran for generations ...
Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened? On Jan. 25, 1997, a series of huge Ponzi schemes in Albania simultaneously collapsed. Where Was ...
A new book looks at the trajectory of Albanian media freedom, from the ‘glorious’ 1930s to non-existence under communism and new tools of control today. If the 1930s marked the “most glorious period” ...
TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Hidden behind a wooden gate in Tirana’s Toptani district, construction workers are busy converting a 19th-century Ottoman mansion into the Besa Museum — a long-planned shrine ...
This article originally appeared on PlanPhilly. It was a schoolhouse where Revolutionary-era leaders offered a “polite education” to young men in the then-new city of Philadelphia, but by 2006, the ...