Tag: Albania

  • Nation & World

    The language of learning

    With the odds against her, Eni Dervishi saw beyond her small town in Albania and used languages as her stepping stones.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Helping Albania break with the past

    The Kennedy School is working with the government of Albania to help the nation put an end to a long period of economic dysfunction.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Borders, books, and the Balkans

    Albanian novelist Gazmend Kapllani, a Radcliffe Fellow this year, draws inspiration for his writing from his nation’s ink-dark past under harsh Communist rule.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Knitting Europe together

    Top Obama official discusses the need to integrate the nations of southeastern Europe into the rest of the continent.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Dream works

    Two former mayors from other nations recount how they took over troubled cities and installed controversial but effective measures to solve urban problems and re-engage the public.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Through a child’s eye

    At first glimpse, the photos don’t seem particularly revealing: a fish on a plate, a television, clean dishes on a rack, a toddler with outstretched arms, a lighted porch. But to Wendy Luttrell, these pictures — and 1,600 others like them in her data base at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — open…

    6 minutes