TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s ...
Musine Kokalari paid a heavy price for opposing Albania’s slide into totalitarianism; a newly opened museum recalls her largely forgotten struggle for a more liberated society. This post is also ...
Indeed, the Albanian Communist Party conveniently rebranded itself as the supposedly kinder, gentler Socialist Party in 1991. Even now, Albanian State Television continues to be a propagandistic ...
TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albania’s National Museum has opened a new pavilion focused on the abuses of the former communist regime, marking the 21st anniversary of the toppling of former communist ...
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare, whose irreverent works from inside communist Albania earned him international renown and repression from the country's dictatorship, ...
After Albania shook off the shackles of its totalitarian regime in 1992, Tirana's new mayor set about sprucing up drab concrete buildings urging citizens to paint the city in multicolored hues.
TIRANA, Albania — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s ...