As I think about the year ahead, I find myself returning once more to Kant and his reminder that, in human affairs, no one ...

Wishing you all a happy New Year. I always love this quote from Enver Hoxha, the Albanian Stalinist dictator, who said in his ...

Anyone who’s worked in the back line of a busy kitchen or binge-watched Hell’s Kitchen while low-key enjoying every verbal ...

Indignity: A Life Reimagined” charts Lea Ypi’s attempts to locate information about her grandmother, Leman Ypi, in the ...

The life stories of footballers Alfie Conn and Rudi Vata are fascinating, as is an account of supporting Celtic in the 1980s.

Every December in recent years, I think back to the time when Jeremy Corbyn, then the leader of the opposition Labour Party in my adopted country, the United Kingdom, quoted from a New Year’s speech ...

20:06, Tue, Oct 7, 2025 Updated: 20:15, Tue, Oct 7, 2025 New sugar tax laws that came into effect last week prevent customers from refilling their soft drinks in restaurants. The new regulations, ...

When Pope Francis arrived in Tirana on September 21, 2014, for his one-day pastoral visit to the land of Albania, along the city’s grand central avenue dedicated to the “Heroes of the Nation,” he was ...

On May 11, 2025, Albanians will head to the polls to elect a new parliament. If Prime Minister Edi Rama, head of the Socialist Party of Albania has his way, it could be the Balkan country’s last. What ...

Albania, a gem of southeast Europe, harbours a peculiar historical inheritance that's hard to miss. Scattered across its terrain for more than 60 years are hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers, ...

We dive into the fascinating and somewhat unusual history of Albania's bunkers ! Built during the Cold War under the communist regime of Enver Hoxha, these bunkers were a response to the fear of ...