A Coffee in the Accursed Mountains
Stories of Balkan life and culture from the countries bordered by the Accursed Mountains - Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro
A Coffee in the Accursed Mountains
Write to protest: Musine Kokalari of Albania
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Elizabeth Gowing and Rob Wilton
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Season 2
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Episode 2
Musine Kokalari (1917 - 1983) was Albania's first published woman, created a political party, and dared to speak out for pluralism when her country was falling to communism. She spent nearly 40 years in imprisonment and internment, writing alone. Nashi Brooker, who herself experienced the dictatorship, tells us why Musine still matters.