A 70-year-old woman from northern Albania is one the few women still making the ancestral dress called the Xhubleta – which UNESCO recently added to its Intangible Cultural Heritage List. File Kola ...
SHKODRA, Albania — Drene Markgjoni spent 12 years in a hard-labor camp, punished for her fiance’s attempt to flee Albania’s regime, then one of the world’s most repressive and isolationist. She swore ...
American actress Eliza Dushku explores and celebrates her Albanian family roots. American actress Eliza Dushku has become passionately interested in and connected to the country of her father's ...
When the Albanian journalist and author Elvira Dones was traveling in the mountains of northern Albania, she asked for directions from someone she thought was a man walking his mule through a village, ...
THETH, Albania -- THETH, Albania -- The Accursed Mountains tower high above the Shala Valley, snow clinging to their summits even in the summer. Their jagged peaks hide one of Europe's most remote ...