Anne Winkler-Morey, Author at Anne Winkler-Morey

Musing in Montenegro’s Capital City

I began this essay in Montenegro where people speak a local Serbian dialect they defiantly call Montenegrin, and finished writing it in Wales, where Welsh is defiantly visible on every signpost, yet English is undeniably dominant. Such is the language of empire. And...

In Montenegro I Think of Sandwiches—Not the Bread Kind.

Aging on the Run, Nationalism

In Montenegro, I think of sandwiches. Not the mustard/mayo, whole wheat-or-rye kind. I think about rivers, lakes, and bays, sandwiched between mountains. These are waterways of unsurpassed beauty. From where I sit overlooking the Bay of Kotor, one can get to...

Five Questions about the Economy and Politics of Tirana, Albania

Aging on the Run, Public History, Sustainable Economies

“I accepted the story I heard on foreign media: that the [1997] Albanian civil war could be explained not by the collapse of a flawed financial system but by longstanding animosities between ethnic groups… its plan could be disrupted only by outside...

Berat, Albania: City that Opens Windows to the Sky and Doors to the Stranger

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Berat— Albania’s oldest city —has 1,000 identically-shaped windows in its Ottoman-era old town and a Byzantine city on top of one of its mountains. The Osum River runs through the town with buildings hugging the slopes. A green ridged range covers its north side....

Mr. Blinken came to Albania

Aging on the Run, Nationalism, Sustainable Economies

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken came to Tirana, Albania. He did not stay long. Not long enough for a state dinner. He would eat in Munich, his next stop. The Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama chastised him for this diplomatic slight. While Blinken was in...