They are the excesses of a dictator who was determined to make his country one of the most isolated nations in the world. At the height of the Cold War, the Stalinist leader Enver Hoxha dotted Albania ...

Enver Hoxha came to power at the end of World War II and subsequently forged the most oppressively controlled society on the continent at the time, later earning Albania the nickname ‘Europe’s North ...

In Spaniard Marco Lledo Escartin’s debut ‘The Invocation of Enver Simaku,’ a journalist investigating his partner’s death gets caught up in the supernatural side of life in Albania. By Jonathan ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s ...

Many Albanians in Yugoslavia came to see Albania as a promised land, but Albania’s treatment of ethnic Albanian writers and artists from outside its borders was often brutal. This post is also ...

The first detailed biography in English of Enver Hoxha paints a fascinating portrait of the weirdest tyrant the Balkans ever saw. Enver Hoxha, The Iron Fist of Albania’, by Blendi Fevziu, is published ...

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MOUNT SHPIRAG, Albania (Reuters) - It took Sheme Filja 10 days and an army of villagers to paint the name "ENVER" on the side of Albania's Mount Shpirag in 1968, in tribute to then communist dictator ...