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 ...

When he was mayor of Tirana, Albania, Edi Rama mandated that houses be painted in bright colors to enliven the dark grey dingy city and create civic spirit in a demoralized place. Crime declined, even ...

An enormous pyramid was long a reminder of a brutal regime and decades of disappointments. Now, it’s a symbol of a city aspiring to be the high-tech “Tel Aviv of the Balkans.” By Andrew Higgins TIRANA ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Sunday his country would transform the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims, an Islamic Sufi order, into a sovereign state to promote moderation, tolerance and peaceful ...

Walk by the home of Albania’s former communist dictator Enver Hoxha in central Tirana and you may not even know it. There is no sign to mark its historical significance. The two-story residence, ...

In a handwritten note, the democratically elected mayor of the capital of Albania confessed that it is hard to do his job: He has been locked in a prison cell for the past nine months. Erion Veliaj ...

There is nowhere to sit at the roomy Radio in Tirana, the capital of Albania. It’s a Thursday night, a New Orleans–style band is cranking out swing tunes, and the tables, surrounded by a vintage stash ...

Cheap, and with 296 miles of sandy shoreline, this overlooked country is growing in popularity – and a new airport could be the game-changer Chris is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 ...

Expect sunny skies. The high will be 37°. Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to the standard atmospheric pressure of 1,013.25 mb (29.9212 inHg). Higher pressure is ...

Albania is also known as the only European country that had more Jewish residents after World War II than before it. Hidden behind a wooden gate in Tirana’s Toptani district, construction workers are ...