Fatjona Mejdini

As Al­ba­ni­ans con­tin­ue to flock to the West, caus­ing a ‘brain drain’, one fam­i­ly re­counts a hair-rais­ing tale of es­cape.

How shad­ows of past ten­sions be­tween Mace­don­ian ma­jor­i­ty and eth­nic Al­ban­ian mi­nor­i­ty im­pede pop­u­la­tion reg­is­tra­tion.

In the base­ment of an old mu­se­um in a vil­lage in Al­ba­nia, a 78-year-old woman pro­tects the last rem­nant of a dic­ta­tor.