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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
