Author: Valton Vuçitërna A mural posing the poignant rhetorical question: “Where is Ukshin Hoti?” in reference to the disappearance of the ethnic Albanian political scientist at the hands of Yugoslav authorities. This photograph is taken on a Prishtina street but similar ones can be found throughout Kosova. There is a region in the western fold of the Republic of Kosova, nestled between the sweeping fields that make up the Plain of Dukagjini and the first gentle risings of land toward...

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.