Croatia’s first female journalist had to work behind a curtain to avoid offending her male colleagues, the start of a 150-year struggle for the region’s women. We explore their realities in a (2024) conversation with pioneering Kosovan journalist Jeta Xharra
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Croatia’s first female journalist had to work behind a curtain to avoid offending her male colleagues, the start of a 150-year struggle for the region’s women. We explore their realities in a (2024) conversation with pioneering Kosovan journalist Jeta Xharra
The one with Pomegranate and Steel: a taste of Albanian names
A Coffee in the Accursed Mountains
16 minutes
4 years ago
The one with Pomegranate and Steel: a taste of Albanian names
This episode introduces some beautifully-named Albanians narrating the meaning of their names, and offers a glimpse of Communist Albania through its list of approved names. And who is honoured in the names Villson, Tonibler and Marenglen? And why?
A Coffee in the Accursed Mountains
Croatia’s first female journalist had to work behind a curtain to avoid offending her male colleagues, the start of a 150-year struggle for the region’s women. We explore their realities in a (2024) conversation with pioneering Kosovan journalist Jeta Xharra
