Isa Blumi: The Unacknowledged Struggle to Protect Kosova’s Islamic Traditions

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In praise of heresy: Truth, knowledge, law

My attraction to all things heretical, and conversely my revulsion to all kind of orthodoxy, is well known to my friends. Today, I  was surprised and pleased to read in the official word of Albania’s Academy of Sciences, that the first ever ‘albanian-style’ personal name recoded in history is associated with heresy (Leka, a Bogomil [...]

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More display of Greek hubris

Greece as a punching bag
By Alexis Papachelas
for Kathimerini
Could it be that Greece is not the punching bag of the region, after all? We grew up amid stories portraying Greece as the persecuted nation, the perennial victim that suffers one diplomatic blow after the other.

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Outsourcing the ‘management’ of Albania

The thesis of some former spooks of Albanian Sigurimi is that US has made a huge blunder by outsourcing the ‘management’ of Albania to its NATO ‘ally’ Greece. Considering the current bitterness of the US-Greek climate it remains to be seen whether this, if ever true, will remain so.
However, looking the language of the article [...]

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Gerdeci dhe perplasja Greko-Amerikane

nga Kastriot Myftaraj
Ngjarja e Gërdecit ishte, tekefundit, zgjerimi në Shqipëri i Luftës Greko-Amerikane që u zhvillua në tryezat diplomatike në Bukuresht, ishte praktikisht «Pearl Harbour» grek në Shqipëri, një diversion i dhunshëm ndaj interesave amerikane në Ballkan, në këtë rast në Shqipëri. Kur SHBA e bënë të qartë se me gjithë atë çka ndodhi në [...]

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Best darn TV show ever!

I have been mesmerized by Ronald Moore’s reinterpretation of that 80s stinker “Battlestar Galactica”, and it is with some disappointment to see it end only after four seasons. Never have I seen a sci-fi show so full of life, and magnetic mysticism.
I invite those who are seekers to see themselves in the trials of these [...]

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Foto e dites: Booo kush na ka hy mren?

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In memoriam

January 21, 1944
Tenda e Qypit (Tent of Jars): A bloody battle was fought between the Germans and two battalions of partizans supported by guerrillas of Skrapar led by Zylyftar Veleshnja and my grandfather Iljaz Bejko (Sevrani).

Tenda e Qypit, Skrapar, Albania

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Less than 1/3 of Canadians feel Canadian

— There were more than 200 ethnic groups reported in the 2006 census, a far cry from the 25 groups recorded in the 1901 census. New groups reported in the latest census included Montserratan from the Caribbean, Chadian, Gabonese, Gambian and Zambian from Africa.
— Those self-identifying as Canadian formed the largest ethnic group in the [...]

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Katovica dhe Fatmir Me(h)dihoxha

Karriera e Fatmir Mediut-inxhinier shpimi-politikan, që s’hapi një pus nafte në Fier , por hapi “pus” (krater) korrupsioni në Gërdec
Tuesday, 01 April 2008
Nga Kastriot Myftaraj - “Pusi” i Gërdecit si mësim biblik “Secilit hakun”. Kjo sentencë biblike mund të shërbejë si epitaf i karrierës politike të Fatmir Mediut, ish-ministrit të mbrojtjes, që e nisi [...]

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