Kingdom: A Visual Exploration of Generational Trauma at Tirana Film Festival

Kingdom: A Visual Exploration of Generational Trauma at Tirana Film Festival

  “Kingdom,” an innovative and visually arresting short film directed by Andres Bronimann, has earned a coveted spot among the nominees for the 2024 Tirana International Film Festival. Set to screen on September 27th at 1 PM, this thought-provoking film

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Film “The Life of Sheep”

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Film “The Life of Sheep”

Director Rajkumar Hirani: Art Against Reality and Strategic Importance by Dr Arben Ramkaj In a world where tensions and conflicts are a constant reality, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stands as a country of exceptional strategic importance and an unparalleled

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A phone call not every writer wants

A phone call not every writer wants

By Kristoffer Leandoer Every year he waits in vain by the phone on this very day, and a whole nation waits with him. Every year the Albanian people are equally surprised that Ismail Kadare has been passed over once again. The recently

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Chronicles and Fragments

Chronicles and Fragments

The novels of Ismail Kadare. By James Wood  Like Trieste or Lvov, the medieval city of Gjirokastër, in southern Albania, has passed its history beneath a sign perpetually rewritten, in different hands, but always with the same words: “Under New Management.”

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Obituary: Ismail Kadare, global literary titan who helped ‘making Albania’

Obituary: Ismail Kadare, global literary titan who helped ‘making Albania’

TIRANA, June 1, 2024 – Albania’s greatest writer and perennial Nobel Prize candidate, Ismail Kadare, has died at the age of 88.   Kadare had permanently moved back to his homeland of Albania from France in recent years and died of

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SAIMIR LOLJA ON ALBANIAN COMMUNISM AND ITS REGIONAL DYNAMICS

SAIMIR LOLJA ON ALBANIAN COMMUNISM AND ITS REGIONAL DYNAMICS

Book Review: The Nation-Free Recipe – How the Triple Entente Served Comintern, 2nd ed., Austin Macauley Publishers, New York, 2024 By Peter Marko Tase   This non-fiction book covers Europe and Albania from the start of the 20th century until

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Albania: freedom, thought and life

Albania: freedom, thought and life

An approach from Lea Ypi’s Free. Coming of Age at the End of History Manuel Montobbio Ideas are written and formulated with words, theories and concepts; and they are written and formulated with life and in life. With the reason,

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Galeria “Kalo” : An International Exhibition Celebrating Global Unity Through Art

Galeria “Kalo” : An International Exhibition Celebrating Global Unity Through Art

International exhibition ART IS LIFE /Crossing borders, with artists from Albania, Angola, Brasil, Croatia, Kosova, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, is organized by Brasilian Baroness Jiselda Salbu. This exhibition travels around to demonstrate the necessity of communication,

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Cultural project brings literary exchange between Saudi Arabia and Albania

Cultural project brings literary exchange between Saudi Arabia and Albania

TIRANA, May 15, 2024 – In an important step for cultural exchanges between Albania and Saudi Arabia, two publishers have agreed to bring Saudi literary works to Albanian readers and Albanian works to Saudi readers. The cultural project, made possible

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The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare

The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare

Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj (born 1986, Kostërc,Kosova ) has been commissioned to create a site-specific installation for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. For the artist’s first major project in the United States, Halilaj has transformed The

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