Our mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers had the subversive dignity to assert their personalities against all odds, to resist being conditioned by men (fathers, husbands, sons), family, social class, race, religion, or nation to the point of determining who they were, of overriding their essence. After Freedom, an essay turned into a surprising autobiography, Lea Ypi (Tirana, 1979), Albanian political scientist from the London School of Economics, now publishes Indignity (Ángulo Editorial and Anagrama), a painful quest into the life of her grandmother, Leman Ypi.

"I want to share my story to prevent other female footballers from going to Vllaznia and experiencing this situation." This is the complaint made by Claudia Cid (Mexico, 1997) after enduring a harrowing ordeal in Albania during her first adventure away from Mexico. Women's football continues to progress and grow worldwide. More and more countries, more teams, and more players can enjoy professional status. However, there is still a long way to go. A clear example is what Cid is experiencing, having had to resort to social media to finance surgery on her cruciate ligament and meniscus, injuries she sustained while training with her team.

The first Italian Navy ship with 16 immigrants on board It arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin on October 16th of last year.Thus began the application of the so-called Italy-Albania protocol. the agreement signed a year earlier by Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, along with her Albanian counterpart, the socialist Edi Rama, with whom Rome hoped to outsource the management of migration flows. With a budget of over 650 million euros, the plan consisted of sending male migrants without the right to asylum, rescued in the Mediterranean, to the Balkan country, inspired by the proposal of former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, which he unsuccessfully attempted. deport undocumented immigrants from the United Kingdom to Rwanda

Oil drilling rigs dominate the landscape around Kuçovë, about 20 kilometers from Berat, one of the most popular tourist cities in Albania, a country that promotes itself as a natural paradise of mountains and pristine beaches. The stench of oil, even with the car windows rolled up, is so intense that it is difficult for those unused to it to bear. In the middle of a cornfield, there is a large pool of crude oil that emanates an even more unpleasant stench. There are even oil extraction towers and pumps in the yards of private homes.

In Shëngjin, in northern Albania, there's nothing but a long avenue lined with low-cost hotels, restaurants, and, in the background, an Italian migrant detention center. Surrounded by a mountainous area, this coastal town becomes a hub of tourists every summer. Behind the hammocks already on the beach, the Meloni experiment is beginning to take shape.

It all began in November 2024, when a fourteen-year-old boy was stabbed to death by a classmate in front of his school in Tirana. The murder sparked a wave of support for social media from young people who validated the crime and incited hatred. To address the issue and what had already become a public debate across the country, the Albanian government made a surprising announcement: it would ban TikTok for a year.

A group of 40 migrants denied asylum by Italy arrived in Albania this Friday, where they will be held pending repatriation to their countries of origin, according to local press reports. This is the fourth attempt by Giorgia Meloni's government. after the courts overturned the previous transfersThe migrants have disembarked at the port of Shëngjin and will be transferred to the Gjadër center, one of the detention facilities built by Italy in the Balkan country as part of a controversial agreement between Rome and Tirana designed to outsource the reception of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, with the idea that not even...