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Albanian traditional music will be featured in Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film The Odyssey. 🇦🇱 According to reports, Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson traveled to southern Albania to record the authentic sounds of Albanian iso-polyphony and the double flute (fyell i dyfishtë). These unique musical traditions helped inspire the film's score, bringing a piece of Albania's rich cultural heritage to a major international production. Albanian iso-polyphony is inscribed by UNESCO on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. 🇦🇱🎶

🇺🇸🇷🇸 USA launched the Strategic Dialogue with Serbia today after canceling plans to start it with Kosovo in 2025. 🇽🇰 US State Dept. said it will start a Strategic Dialogue with Kosovo once Kosovo fulfills its "commitments" regarding the country's Serb community. Plans to launch a Strategic Dialogue with Kosovo were suspended following US concerns about the actions of Kosovo's Kurti government, which Washington said had increased "tensions and instability."

What if Troy wasn’t in Asia Minor at all? The more I study Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the more I wonder whether the geography described by Homer fits Lezhë, northern Albania, better than the traditional location. A wide plain before the city, rivers, mountains behind it, a short distance to the Adriatic Sea, ancient ruins, local legends of Aeneas escaping with the women and children, and even place names such as Maja Trojan—all raise fascinating questions. I know this challenges the mainstream view, but history advances by examining evidence, not by avoiding difficult questions. I’m continuing to compare Homer’s descriptions, archaeology, geography, and local traditions. Whether this hypothesis ultimately proves correct or not, I believe it deserves careful and open-minded investigation. This idea is not mine alone. Albanian writers and researchers such as Alban Kraja, Fahri Xharra, and Sazan Guri, along with Serbian historian Milutin Jaćimović, French historian Mathieu Aref, have argued that Troy may have been located in the Lezhë–Shkodër region. Some of them also propose that the Trojan War was a conflict between ancient Pelasgian peoples rather than one connected to the later arrival/migration of Greek-speaking populations here in Balkan. Could Lezhë be the real Troy? What do you think?

🇽🇰 Kosovo bans unlicensed tour guides amid attempts by foreign guides from Serbia to misrepresent the country's history and cultural heritage to tourists.

How Greeks culturally appropriate Albanian traditions (in this case iso-polyphony) 1. They don't have it. 2. They badly copy it. 3. They claim both have it. 4. They say they had it first. 5. They change texts and documents to accommodate it. Denounce them, wherever you see them