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Twenty years ago today, Ferbent’s cousin, Havzi Nela (a well known poet and dissident), was hung in the northern Albanian city of Kukes, for speaking out against the communist regime. Even though communist leader Enver Hoxha was already dead and the communist regime was on it’s last legs, they hung Havzi Nela as a last [...]

F headed to Albania yesterday, leaving me alone for the rest of the summer. He has to take care of some family business, plus he wants to spend some time with his mother, so he’ll be there for at least a month. I could have gone with him but there’s just no way I can [...]

I haven’t been to Albania since 2001 and while I don’t have any immediate plans to return, I am glad to see they are slowly making progress in improving and developing the country (if you ignore the massive corruption problem). They have recently been promoting tourism in Albania with a serious of ads on CNN [...]

For Ferbent. Only in Albania.

The second site I created for Ferbent is about Albanian news. F is forever on the internet reading the news. He loves to read about anything to do with Albania, whether in his own language or in English. So I figured he may as well make better use of this time by posting the most [...]

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