This dictionary makes available for the first time a broad range of knowledge unknown or little-known to the western world, and indeed much information that is

In some senses, Albania is a living museum of the past. Originally a small herding community in the most inaccessible reaches of the Balkans, the presence of Al

Albania is not well known by outsiders; it was deliberately closed to the outside world during the communist era. Now it has thankfully become free again, its b

The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared ex

Given increasing global migration and the importance of positive cross-cultural relations across national borders, this book offers an interdisciplinary and int