The bitter history of Old Europe must never repeat itself. Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allan Little is one of the most acclaimed books on the violent dissolution of the former European federation.
Penguin Books has …
The Albanian School of Venice
It felt like my feet were walking on their own. My inner map brought me here.
The map of my heart. Tears rolling down my face in front of the door of Scuola degli Albanesi of Venice established in 1442 …
Letter to Serbia
Dear Serbia,
What have you done to Ukshin Hoti?
Where is his final resting place? What did you do to his body?
Do you remember his eyes of an ancient philosopher and his aquiline nose?
What did he say …
When Havel talked about Kosovo
“There is no civil society; political parties are fragmented and unable to agree on pasic principles,” said former President Václav Havel, who led the movement for democracy in Czechoslovakia. He was a staunch support of Kosovo’s freedom and independence.
Dissident, …
Albania in old Encyclopædia Britannica
9th Edition
— Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Volume I, “Albania (1.)” —
ALBANIA, a country of considerable extent, which though frequently ruled by turbulent and nearly independ ent chiefs, ranks as one of the provinces of the Turkish empire. …
Kosova’s 10th Independence Day
The Most Serene Republic of Kosovo, known by its native heirs and many righteous friends as Kosova or Dardania, celebrates its 10th Independence Day and the 2410th anniversary of its King Bardylis.
The history of Dardania is as ancient as …
Albanian Teachers’ Day
March 7, 1887: Korça, Albania — Albanian patriots opened the first desegregated, secular school in what was then the Ottoman Empire, a country that spanned across three continents. 35 students of different religions and social backgrounds attended classes in their …
On true heroes and so-called writers
A shamefully biased article about Prishtinë’s cityscape appeared last week on the Kosovo 2.0 magazine online edition. Author Cristina Marí tops it all by calling the nation’s respected warrior Adem Jashari a ‘so-called hero’.
And while I’ve tried to understand …
Skanderbeg was a Serb
Or how Serb national ideology constructed the image of the Albanian as an enemy — by Olivera Milosavljević (1951–2015)
Queen Teuta and sexist historians
Here’s an account of gender equality, small government, and international law at their “finest.”
That Queen Teuta had one of the ambassadors killed may be an invention of ancient historians who wrote from a sexist and pro-Greek point of view. …