A 70-year-old woman from northern Albania is one the few women still making the ancestral dress called the Xhubleta – which UNESCO recently added to its Intangible Cultural Heritage List. File Kola ...

Two young anthropologists have delved into the ways Albanians have traditionally interpreted dreams – and what this says about their culture and society. Eating honey signals sorrow and bitterness, ...

As the crow flies — and Google Maps authoritatively confirmed — the coast was just a matter of miles away. An easy drive and we’d be lolling in the Mediterranean. Instead the car lurched along dirt ...

Elona Demollari does not know when her big day will come, but she is trying on wedding gowns anyway as Albanians yearn for the return of the big, brash weddings that are a cornerstone of social life ...

Her fingers dance across the piano keys, striking with precision and force, and a familiarity Magi Kapllani has known her entire life. She described it this way: "I love it. I feel like I'm flying.

I’m feeling a little guilty as I write this. On Feb. 5, I was peppering Gjergji Arabaxhi with questions about raising pigeons in the middle of Manchester. To solve my curiosity, he walked into his ...

STAMFORD — Dressed in a red gown embroidered with the black, double-headed eagle of the Albanian flag, Laurentina Nezaj, 19, of Stamford, sang an upbeat patriotic song about homesickness called ...