Founded on 10 July 1920, the National Library of Albania holds over a million items. The 2017 fire and 2018 flood are reminders that a country's written memory does not preserve itself.
The National Library is often discussed, village shelves rarely. An essay on libraries disappearing along with their readers, and on the absence of data about them.
In Lezhë, the prize named after the Franciscan who spent 26 years in the dictatorship's prisons went this spring to Zija Çela for his novel “Koka mbi katror”.
Arben Idrizi represented Kosovo on the 14-author shortlist for the 2026 EU Prize for Literature. Albania was absent, not through neglect but through rotation. What does that tell us?
A researcher argues that in January 2026 Albanians abroad outnumbered residents for the first time. What official figures and voter rolls show, and what remains unmeasured.
In August, DokuFest reached its 25th edition with 223 films in seven cinemas. How did a documentary festival change a small city, and what can the rest of Kosovo and Albania learn from it?
