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Life between cultures
Home can be more than one place. I write about returning to Kosovo, finding a familiar community abroad and the people we meet between countries.
Follow the Europe Tour for the journey through Vienna, Bratislava, Prague, Berlin and Hamburg. A good place to begin is coffee and Albanian encounters in Prague.
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Berlin airport: the long distance between a plan and an opening
At Berlin airport, I used Windows XP and Windows 10 to make a point about how long a project can take. A plan is announced. Years…
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League of Prizren and Congress of Berlin: which came first?
The League of Prizren was founded on 10 June 1878, before the Congress of Berlin opened on 13 June. Correcting the sequence in my travel caption.
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Gentiana and Xhemajl: a dua.com story in Berlin
Gentiana and Xhemajl met through dua. They married in 2025. In Berlin, I got to share a conversation with them.
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Working from a café: a Berlin note
Starbucks was a poor place for me to work at this Berlin stop. That was my blunt reaction.
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Berlin: a question about remembrance
In Berlin, I asked how German soldiers killed in war are remembered. I said there was no monument for them. That was too sweeping. The better…
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How the Brandenburg Gate’s Quadriga returned from Paris
Napoleon took Berlin’s Quadriga to Paris in 1806; it returned in 1814. The verified chronology and why today’s sculpture is a later replica.
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Back at the Berlin billboard location
Back at the Berlin location of our dua billboard: “I only date… Albanians”.
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Day seven in Berlin: a pause at the campsite
Day seven. Berlin. A campsite among trees, then a game and the question: who is going to win?
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Skanderbeg and Albanian identity: correcting my museum claim
A correction to my Skanderbeg post: what I attributed to the Vienna museum, which claims remain unverified and where to check the inscription.