These bunkers, locally known as "bunkerët," stand as stark reminders of Albania’s past under the oppressive rule of the communist leader Enver Hoxha. From the swinging '60s through the paranoid ...

So the idea that his former home in central Tirana might one day be opened up to all and sundry would have horrified Enver Hoxha, the paranoid, reclusive communist dictator who died in 1985 ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, ...

Walk by the home of Albania’s former communist dictator Enver Hoxha in central Tirana and you may not even know it. There is no sign to mark its historical significance. The two-story residence ...

Through conversations with him, I have drawn stark differences between his childhood and mine ... regardless of the faith. Enver Hoxha declared Albania an atheist country in 1967, making it the first ...

but no one has undertaken to make a biography of him, not only because of the feelings he causes in the people, but also because of the fact that it will take a voluminous work by historians serious ...

is a must to recapture the atmosphere of his "Chronicle of the Stone Town", the story of his childhood. Gjirokastër is also the birthplace of Enver Hoxha. Like other literary giants, Kadaré ...

It was an accusation he dismissed with withering irony. "Against whom was Enver Hoxha protecting me? Against Enver Hoxha?" Kadare told AFP in 2016. "The hell of communism, like every other hell ...

According to a biography, at the age of five she attended ... A couple of years after Albania was liberated after WWII, Enver Hoxha became Prime Minister. He served from 1944 until his death ...