When locals hear a foreigner speaking Albanian, reactions are immediate and emotional. Conversations quickly turn into ...

QUINCY – Winds carried the smell of roasting goat and the sound of Albanian music and language through Kilroy Square while the national colors of black and red flashed on banners, flags, clothing, ...

WORCESTER - In a long-awaited post-COVID comeback, Worcester's biennial Albanian Culture Festival is returning Friday through Sunday at St. Mary's Albanian Orthodox Church. The event's return not only ...

Ambassador of Albanian culture in the world, modest by nature, a talent that touched a big dream ...

Shaip Emerllahu, the director of the 'Days of Naim' international poetry festival in Tetovo, North Macedonia, tells BIRN about his decades-long struggle for Albanian rights - and how poetry works as a ...

PRISTINA -- At least since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, common ground has been all too rare in the Balkans, and, where it exists, it has tended to be a source of bitter ...

For many Albanian families living abroad, the holiday season is a mix of routines that feel familiar and challenges that don’t. In December, kitchens fill with the smell of ballokume and byrek, ...

A controversy over whether a newspaper was racist in its criticism of the US ambassador has reignited a debate on whether Ismail Kadare, Albania’s most renowned writer, is also racist. The American ...