It’s official - Madonna, undoubtedly the queen of pop, is returning to the Balkans following her Budva, Montenegro, concert last year. Gigs in Belgrade, Ljubljana, Bucharest and Sofia have been added to the the second half of her Sticky & Sweet Tour, which will visit 22 European cities this July and August.
Rumours have been circulating [...]
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Madonna Returns to the Balkans
A Less Than Rosy View of Belgrade
Viktor over at Belgraded has posted an interesting link to an article about Belgrade and Serbia at Ireland’s Tribune newspaper. It’s not your usual tourist targeted article and delves much deeper under the often shiny surface of the country’s capital into a much ‘darker’ world.
Viktor gives his opinion on the article which is a bit [...]
The Kanun – Albania's Blood Feuds
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Following on from their article on Albania’s sworn virgins, the BBC has written about one Albanian family’s plight resulting from a decades long blood feud:
“Eleven-year-old Nikolin dreams about the day he can walk out of his house without fear and attend the local school…Seated on the porch of his parent’s small farmhouse in northern [...]
Albania's Sworn Virgins
I stumbled across a very interesting article earlier today. It’s about Albanian women who became men, not as transsexuals, but because the man of the house had died, leaving a mother alone with her daughters. Back in pre-communist times, Albania was a staunchly patriarchal society (and still is to an extent) and the lack of [...]
Blog Roundup: Albania
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Ever since I discovered that Albania, wedged between Italy, Greece and (former) Yugoslavia, existed, the country has continually fascinated me. As a teen at high school, when the Kosovo war and NATO bombing were in full swing, I remember some UNICEF workers giving us a presentation about the aid they were providing to [...]
