Essays, analysis and criticism on Albanian language, literature and culture.
Albania fell three places in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index. The debate focused on political news; this piece reads the ranking from the culture page and the space for literary criticism.
Five years and three appointments later, the title Albania's National Centre for Books and Reading created for poetry keeps reopening the same question: who judges, and by what measure?
Four chapters provisionally closed, education and culture among them. How the accession process is reshaping public Albanian, and what each side says.
According to the Centre for Diaspora Publications, only about 30,000 of 400,000 Albanian children abroad attend Albanian classes. The “Teachers for Greece” programme is a start, not an answer.
The National Theatre building was demolished on 17 May 2020. Deadlines for the new theatre have slipped from 2023 to 2025 and beyond. What, in the end, does a new building replace?
The 24th Tirana International Film Festival, 21–27 September, put human stories at its centre, from Teona Strugar Mitevska's Mother Teresa film to a restored “Mimoza Llastica”.
The UNESCO bid for Arbëresh spring rites and Tirana's promises of a museum and new cooperation raise a question: what does it mean to preserve a language that lives outside your state?
In June 2026 the Special Appeal Chamber concluded the re-evaluation of judges and prosecutors within its constitutional mandate. What a decade of vetting left behind, in institutions and in everyday language.
The literature of the Albanian diaspora is a crossroads between nostalgia and integration—a space where identity is rewritten every day.
A reflection on iso-polyphony as a living cultural heritage that speaks in one shared voice from the depths of Albanian history.
A critical look at the role of AI in preserving and developing the Albanian language in an increasingly digital world.
The critical state of Albania’s public libraries, and why investment matters for preserving the nation’s cultural memory.
