Driving through Tirana, I can’t help but look up. My taxi driver, Erion, leans over the steering wheel and points to the buildings around us. ‘That’s new, that one is a couple of years old, that one ...

The writer is an Israeli-American businessman and writer living in Tirana, Albania. He is the co-founder of Albanian Night, the country’s first-ever ethnocultural center, which teaches visitors ...