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What have you been up to lately?

By Anna Wiman | Published: September 3, 2010
No blog posts the last 2 months. I’ve been busy living… …I attended the 2-week course ”EU Foreign and Security Policy towards Western Balkans” at the the Prishtina International Summer University 2010. The majority of the participants were from Kosovo and the rest from other Balkan countries like Albania, Bosnia and Serbia. For a while I wasn’t even planning [...]
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Exkursion to Theranda region village and Prizren, third biggest city of Kosovo

By Anna Wiman | Published: July 9, 2010
A friend of mine invited me to his house the other day. He lives in a village between the cities of Prizren and Theranda in southern Kosovo. I had passed by this beautiful region where he lives several times by car but never really visited it. Travelling with locals is always the best way to travel a [...]
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Roadtrip to Kosovo: Tirana – Prishtina

By Anna Wiman | Published: June 30, 2010
Last year when I travelled from Prishtina to Tirana for a few days, we had to go through the mountains in northern Albania, driving about 30km/h. It took us about 12 hours in total to reach our destination. Now there is a highway, at least while driving in Albania. A highway will be built in [...]
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Ananas never tasted so good.

By Anna Wiman | Published: April 14, 2010
At the end of the street, at the intersection, there was a shop selling vegetables and fruit where one could easily get a kilo for 50 euro cents. The big windows were dirty from the heavy-trafficked dusty road right outside the shop. Some day one could not even see through them. I passed the shop every day on my way to work. A [...]
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Looking out. Looking in.

By Anna Wiman | Published: March 20, 2010
I still remember clearly what was going on in my head when this picture of me was taken, overlooking the city of Prishtina in march 2009. I was visiting for a week and I knew that what I was getting myself into for the summer would be completely different from anything that I was used to. It would be [...]
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A struggeling 2-year old

By Anna Wiman | Published: February 20, 2010
The future of Kosovo celebrating independence day How I wish I could have been in Prishtina three days ago. The Republic of Kosovo declared independence from Serbia February 17th 2008, 9 years after the NATO bombing campaign that drove Serbian military forces out of Kosovo, a former province of Serbia, and by that stopped the killing of ethnic Albanians. Two [...]
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