Albania has spent three decades clearing land, courting power, and calling it progress.
This dossier follows the cost: a coastline sold to foreign capital, a government aligned with Israel through genocide, a border rented out for migrant detention, and the citizens who finally took to the streets to say no.
From Zvërnec to Gaza and beyond the state border, an unsettled past and stories of who has been sacrificed, and who is refusing to let it stand.
Long before Kushner's resort, Rama's Albania was already clearing land of the people who lived on it: pyramid schemes, hydropower dams, tourism permits, one dispossession at a time
Read moreDetailsThe Albanian government embraced Israel through the genocide. Its citizens refused and across deep divides, Palestine became the cause that united them
Read moreDetailsAn exhibition cancelled, a historian's devices seized, a war-crimes verdict looming over The Hague. Kosovo edges toward peace but has yet to come to terms with its past
Read moreDetailsKushner didn't open Albania's coastline to capital. He walked through a door that Rama built, decorated, and defended as Renaissance
Read moreDetailsAlbania has handed over its land to Italian-run migrant detention. For a nation of displaced people, activists say this is both a democratic failure and a betrayal of memory
Read moreDetailsWhile Europe hesitates, Albania bets on Israel. For a country desperate to belong to the Western order, Palestinian suffering is the price of admission
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