Blogs in January 2023

Gazala: A Hopeful Tale From a War-Torn World 26th January 2023

In the post-war scenario of Kosovo, the youngest nation of the world, Gazala couldn’t have ever imagined the things that happened to her. How outer twists in circumstances add to her inner turmoil, and never let her settle with...

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Gazala: A Hopeful Tale From a War-Torn World 21st December 2022

In the post-war scenario of Kosovo, the youngest nation of the world, Gazala couldn’t have ever imagined the things that happened to her. How outer twists in circumstances add to her inner turmoil, and never let her settle with...

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Tito’s Lost Children, The Kosovo War 2nd April 2022

A hand clamps down on a boy’s shoulder. He looks up from his father’s body. In an instant his childhood is over. He kicks and screams as he and his little brother are dragged away by the Albanian terrorist...

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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans 17th January 2020

Terrible things have been going on in the Balkans for centuries, and they are likely to go on for centuries more to come. It is an area of great contrasts — geographically beautiful, yet the underlying crust of the...

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How To Be a Kosovan Bride 13th August 2017

How to be a Kosovan Bride opens up something entirely new to the reader: the history, culture and stories of one of the newest countries in the world. It weaves together Albanian folktale, stories of Kosovan experience of the...

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