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TIRANA, Albania — One block off Tirana’s Skanderbeg Square, Harel Kopelman is bringing traditional Albanian culture — in the form of dazzling wedding rituals, colorful costumes and delicious wines and ...

On City Beach in Saranda it’s hard to find a space to lay down a towel among all the others on the stony beach, whose owners are either stretched out soaking up the sun or bobbing about in the clear ...

As I stroll the rainbow-painted Soviet blocks of Tirana, Gjergj invites me home for lunch. A pensioner in a tweed cap, with a face as smooth and readable as olive wood, he leaves his game of ...