Life between cultures
If you do not know where you stand, start by finding out
My appeal to Albanians at home and abroad: take an interest, seek information and join the discussion instead of looking away.
VALON ASANI / ENGLISH
Writing on love, lived values and Albanian life
Love well. Live your values. Carry our roots forward. Those are the three questions behind my writing, whether a piece begins with a relationship, a company or a moment between Kosovo and Switzerland.
Choose a subject below. The short video notes preserve the original moment; longer essays explore what it means and what we can do. These are personal experiences and opinions, with sources for factual claims.
Life between cultures
At Kruja Castle: respect for history includes the visit itself
A short reflection from my visit to Kruja Castle: caring for a historic place also means addressing what visitors encounter outside.
Life between cultures
Why I am reading Sami Frashëri: language, faith and Albanian identity
My reading of Sami Frashëri’s 1899 book: why language and shared identity matter, and why historical claims need their own evidence.
Life between cultures
Albanian ancestry: what the new DNA study actually reports
I shared a study about Albanian ancestry because the history of our roots interests me. Reading the research itself is an important step beyond sharing a…
Life between cultures
Twelve years after the Serbia–Albania match
On 14 October 2026, I shared the image of the banner carried by a drone during the Serbia–Albania match twelve years earlier. The anniversary brought that…
Business & technology
KONCENTROHU: the podcast studio is ready
After our month-long journey through Europe, the KONCENTROHU podcast studio is ready.
Relationships
Bringing out the best in each other
When awakened souls come together, they bring out the best in each other. Not through criticism, pressure or an attempt to fix the other person.
Life between cultures
From Prishtina to Kruja: closing a month on the road
We ended our journey at Skanderbeg’s castle in Kruja. A month earlier, on September 14, we had left Prishtina for Vienna and the museum that holds…
Life between cultures
The Pelasgians: reading the sources before drawing a family tree
Herodotus and the Oxford Classical Dictionary offer a careful starting point for exploring the Pelasgians and ancient identities.
Life between cultures
Kruja and the three sieges: keeping the dates clear
At Kruja, I returned to the story of resistance that had accompanied our journey. The castle makes the scale of that history feel close, and I…
Life between cultures
Ibn Kemal: a passage I read in Kruja
In Kruja, I recorded myself reading a passage attributed to the Ottoman historian Ibn Kemal. Its vivid description of Albanian fighters caught my attention, and
Life between cultures
The Devil’s Bridge in Civita: a story among the rocks
At the Devil’s Bridge in Civita, the Arbëresh town we call Çifti, I shared a local legend.