Authors: Enri Lala and Valton Vuçitërna. The following contributions were drafted by Chief Editor Enri Lala and Deputy Chief Editor Valton Vuçitërna to mark the release of the first Arbanon Magazine physical issue. This debut publication will be launched at the annual Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu Street Fair, which will be held in the heart of Bronx, New York on Sunday, May 3 from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Enri and Valton’s letters are included at the outset and conclusion of the

Author: Bleron Zajmi Albanians marching in a post-World War II celebration march on Swanston Street, Melbourne, c. late 1940s. Courtesy of Fikri Taip as part of the collection of the ‘Kurbet’ exhibit at the Victoria Museum, which was organized through the collaborative efforts of the Immigration Museum of Victoria, the Australian Albanian Women’s Association, and numerous Albanian Australian individuals from the local community. The exhibition was held between 19 November 200

Where does Albanian national identity come from? Deputy Chief Editor Valton Vuçitërna reviews an important new work by Albert Bikaj which presents an uncommon explanation ...

The Balkans are often imagined as a region of explicitly demarcated ethnic and religious divisions, forged through centuries of imperial subjugation, regional rivalry and other such conflicts. Yet nowhere is the complexity behind this more apparent than in the peninsula’s untamed frontiers, where identities have been contested and reshaped by coercion and force.