Samir Mane fled Albania’s communist regime in the early 1990s and resettled in Austria. Now back in Albania, he oversees a ...

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 ...

The city is clearly still trying to figure out what to do with the many reminders of Hoxha's rule. A monument to him in Skanderbeg Square was torn down by pro-democracy demonstrators in 1991, but his ...