Robert Elsie

Writer, translator, interpreter, specialist in Albanian studies

Scholarly articles and other publications

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2013 Apr 26	Robert Elsie speaking about his new book, "The Cham Albanians of Greece", presented at a reception held at the Travellers Club on Pall Mall in London (UK) on 26 April 2013. Download full text Sir Geoffrey Nice, deputy prosecutor at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague, speaking at The Travellers Club in London during the presentation of the book "The Cham Albanians of Greece".
2012 Nov 27	Leo Freundlich and the "Albanian Correspondence." Paper presented at the International Conference - 100 Years of Albanian Independence. Centre of Albanian Studies, Hotel Tirana International, 27 November 2012. Download full text Leo Freundlich dhe Korrespondenca Shqiptare. Kumtesë për Konferencën Shkencore Ndërkombëtare - 100 Vjet Pavarësi (26-28 nëntor 2012). Centre of Albanian Studies, Hotel Tirana International, 27 November 2012. Download full text
2012 Nov 10	Northern Albanian Culture and the Kanun. Lecture given at the Symposium: Albanese Tradities en Taal: 100 Jaar Onafhankelijk Albanië / Albanian Language and Culture: 100 Years of Independence, University of Leiden, 10 November 2012 Download full text
2012 Sept 27	The Albanian Chams of Greece. Paper given at the International Conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences, held in St. Petersburg on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Agniya Vasil'evna Desnickaya, 27-30 September 2012. Download full text
2012 Sept 25	Vështrim mbi shqiptarët çamë të Greqisë. in: the newspaper Shqip, Tirana, 25 November 2012, p. 22-23 / botuar në: gazetën Shqip, Tiranë, 25 nëntor 2012, f. 22-23. Download full text
2012 Sept 16	Les Tchams albanais de la Grèce. Présentation donnée au Colloque international « La Création de l’état albanais (1912): contextes et réceptions de l’événement », Paris, INALCO, le 16 novembre 2012. Download full text
2012	Historia e letërsisë shqipe dhe kultura e letërsisë shqipe: vëzhgime mbi zhvillimet e fundit. in: Oliver Jens Schmitt & Eva Anne Frantz (ed.): Historia e Shqiptarëve: gjendja dhe perspektivat e studimeve. Botim në shqip u përgatit nga Pandeli Pani dhe Artan Puto. Tirana: Botime Përpjekja, 2012. f. 255-266. Përkthyer nga Artan Puto nga Albanian Literary History and Albanian Literary Culture: Observations on Recent Developments, in: Oliver Jens Schmitt & Eva Anne Frantz (ed.): Albanische Geschichte: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung. Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, 140. Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 2009, p. 215-224. Download full text Albania, Poetry of. in: Roland Greene & Stephen Cushman (ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics. Fourth edition, ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6 (Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2012). p. 30-31. Download full text
2011	Some Observations on Albanian and Bosnian Epic Traditions. in: Bardhyl Demiraj (ed.): Aktuelle Fragestellungen und Zukunftsperspektiven der Albanologie. Akten der 4. Deutsch-Albanischen kulturwissenschaftlichen Tagung "50 Jahre Albanologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München" (23.-25. Juni 2011, Gut Schönwag bei Wessobrunn). Albanische Forschungen, Bd 32 (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2012), p. 367-373. Download full text
2010	Në bjeshkët e Rugovës, një retrospektivë mbi poezinë e Azem Shkrelit. by Robert Elsie & Janice Mathie-Heck in: Smajl Smaka: Shëtitje me Azemin (Onufri, Tirana 2011), p. 176-186. Download full text Disa mendime për traditat epike shqiptare dhe boshnjake. in: Jeta e re, revistë letrare, Prishtina, 3, 2010, p. 431-438. Download full text Albanische Literatur: Erforschung und aktuelle Situation. in: Ost-West: Europäische Perspektiven, Freising, 2010, 4, p. 267-275. Download full text
2009	A duhet të përkthehet letërsia shqipe? in: Vepra themelore në Albanologji. Aktet e Konferencës Shkencore Ndërkombëtare 18-20 dhjetor 2008. Ardian Marashi (ed.). ISBN 978-99956-45-21-2 (Qendra e Studimeve Albanologjike, Tirana 2009), p. 143-145. Download full text Editor for Albanian literature, new edition of articles on / Redaktion albanischer Literatur, Betreuung der Wortartikel zu: Pjetër Bogdani: Cuneus Prophetarum de Christo Salvatore Mundi et eius Evangelica Veritate (Martin Camaj), Vol. 2, p. 703-704; Gjon Buzuku: Meshari (Martin Camaj), Vol. 3, p. 358-359; Gjergj Fishta: Ânzat e Parnasit, Mrizi i zânavet, Lahuta e malcís (Claus Haebler), Vol. 5, p. 525-529; Naim Bej Frashëri: Bageti e bujqësia (Ekrem Vlora), Vol. 5, p. 698-699; Ismail Kadare: Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur (Wolfgang Rössig), Kronikë në gur (KLL), Dimri i madh (KLL), Pallai i ëndrrave (Rolf Fischer), Vol. 8, p. 524-528; Lasgush Poradeci: Ylli i zemrës (Claus Haebler), Vol. 13, p. 176-177; Jul Variboba: Gjella e Shën Meriis Virgjër (Claus Haebler), Vol.16, p. 680. in: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, 3., völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage, herausgegeben von Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Stuttgart & Weimar: J. B. Metzlar, 2009 Predgovor / Preface. in: Rusana Bejleri: Albanskata literatura - kato ogledalo na narodnata duševnost (Balkani, Sofia 2009), p. 7-8, 222-223. Download full text Albanian literary history and Albanian literary culture: observations on recent developments. in: Oliver Jens Schmitt & Eva Anne Frantz (ed.): Albanische Geschichte: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung. Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, 140.  ISBN 978-3-486-58980-1 (R. Oldenbourg, Munich 2009), p. 215-224. Download full text
2009 Feb 12	L’Albanie et le Kosovo en couleurs (1913): Les autochromes de la Collection Albert Kahn. Communication donnée au colloque « L‘Âge d’or de la photographie albanaise, 1858-1945 ». Université de Chicago à Paris, Paris, 12 février 2009. Download full text
2008 Dec 05	Me rastin e botimit të antologjisë së poezisë shqiptare: "Lightning from the Depths: an Anthology of Albanian Poetry." Presentation given in Tirana on 5 December 2008. Download full text
2008 Nov 17	Thoughts on Kosovar Albanian Literature, Culture and Identity. Lecture given at the Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun, Poland, on 17 November 2008. Download full text
2008	Albanian literature in the English-speaking world. in: Translation Review, University of Texas at Dallas, 76 (2008), p. 1-10. Download full text translation Seven Albanian poets: Visar Zhiti, Mimoza Ahmeti, Gazmend Krasniqi, Lindita Arapi, Eqrem Basha, Flora Brovina and Abdullah Konushevci. Translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie. in: New European Poets. General editors Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer. (Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press 2008) ISBN 978-1-55597-492-3, pp. 123-128. Kosova and Albania: history, people, identity. on: www.OpenDemocracy.net. Posted 22 February 2008. www.opendemocracy.net/... Albanian tales. in: Donald Haase (ed.): The Greenwood encyclopedia of folktales and fairy tales. Vol. 1, ISBN 978-0-313-33442-9. (Greenwood Press, Westport CT 2008), p. 23-25. Download full text Udhëpërshkrim i Benjamin Dizraelit, 1830. Letër nga vizita në Shqipëri. in: Albanica Ekskluzive: revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtina, 75, Janar 2008, p. 38-41.
2007	Të reja nga fusha e albanologjisë. in: BOKSHI, Besim, BASHA, Eqrem, KRAJA, Mehmet (ed.), Studime filologjike shqiptare: konferencë shkencore, 21-22 nëntor 2007 (Akademia e Shkencave dhe e Arteve e Kosovës / Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë, Prishtina 2008), p. 97-100. Download full text Masakrat serbe në Dibër, 1913: raport zyrtar paraqitur Fuqive të Mëdha. in: Albanica Ekskluzive: revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtinë, 73-74, tetor/nëntor 2007, p. 17-20. Download full text Dervish Duma. by Robert Elsie and Bejtullah Destani. in: New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dritëshkronja. in: Albanica Ekskluzive, revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtinë, 72, shtator 2007, p. 10-14. Download full text Gjon Buzuku: Opfer der Inquisition? in: Demiraj, Bardhyl (ed.): Nach 450 Jahren. Buzukus "Missale" und seine Rezeption in unserer Zeit. 2. Deutsch-Albanische kulturwissenschaftliche Tagung in München vom 14. bis 15. Oktober 2005. Albanische Forschungen, 25. ISBN 978-3-447-05468-3. (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007), p. 211-215. Download full text Albanian literary history: a communist primeur. in: History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III. Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. ISBN 978-90-272-3455-1 (John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia 2007), p. 409-411. Download full text Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship stifles Albanian theatre. in: History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III. Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. ISBN 978-90-272-3455-1 (John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia 2007), p. 231-234. Download full text The National role of the Albanian literature journals. in: History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III. Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. ISBN 978-90-272-3455-1 (John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia 2007), p. 92-94. Download full text The Rediscovery of folk literature in Albania. in: History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III. Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. ISBN 978-90-272-3455-1 (John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia 2007), p. 335-338. Download full text Elbasani: nusja e botës. Nga udhëpërshkrimi (Sejahatname) i Evlija Çelebiut. in: Albanica Ekskluzive: revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtina, 69, June 2007, p. 79-82. Download full text Kanina dhe Vlora nga udhëpërshkrimi (Sejahatnameja) e Evlija Çelebiut. in: Albanica Ekskluzive: revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtinë, 68, maj 2007, p. 82-85. Download full text Berati - krahina hijerëndë: nga udhëpërshkrimi i Evlija Çelebiut. in: Albanica Ekskluzive, revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtinë, 67, prill/April 2007, p. 74-79. Download full text Shenjtorët e krishterë të Shqipërisë. in: Tempulli, revistë periodike kulturore, Korça, 12 (2007), p. 71-93. Gjirokastra: nga udhëpërshkrimi i Evlija Çelebiut. in: Albanica Ekskluzive, revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtina, 66, mars/March 2007, p. 73-76. Download full text Evlija Çelebiu: nëpër Kosovë, 1669. in: Albanica Ekskluzive, revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtinë, 64/65, janar-shkurt 2007, p. 85-88. Download full text
2006	Ismail Kadare. in: John Merriman & Jay Winter (ed.), Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Scribner Library of Modern Europe Series. ISBN 978-068431658 (Charles Scribners & Sons, New York 2006), p. 1529-1530. Download full text Historia e sundimit turk në Shqipëri. Dorëshkrimi i panjohur i Eqrem bej Vlorës. in: Albanica Ekskluzive, revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtinë, 63, dhjetor 2006, p. 92 95. Download full text, 1 MB Baroni Franc Nopça dhe Kongresi i Triestit. in: Hylli i Dritës, Shkodër, 2006, 3, p. 19-28. Download full text Maksimilian Lamberc në Mirditë, 1916, dhe zbulimi i koleksionit të tij fotografik. in: Albanica Ekskluzive, revistë mujore për dije e kulturë, Prishtina, 61, tetor/October 2006, p. 96-101. Download full text Contemporary verse from Albania. in: Transcript, European Internet Review of Books and Writing, vol. 24. www.transcript-review.org/... The hybrid soil of the Balkans: a topography of Albanian literature. in: History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume II. Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. ISBN 90-272-3453-1 (John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia 2006), p. 283-301. Download full text Fati i Gjon Buzukut. in: Shekulli, Tirana, 14 June 2006, p. 18-19. Download full text
2005	translation Ismail Kadare. The Albanian Writers’ Union as Mirrored by a Woman. Translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie. in: The New Yorker, International Fiction Issue, New York, December 26, 2005 - January 2, 2006, p. 112-127. www.newyorker.com/... Espectros balcánicos. in: La Nación, Suplemento Cultura, Buenos Aires, 20 November 2005. Download full text Subtle dissent of a Balkan bard: the life and works of Ismail Kadare. in: TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, London, June 24, 2005, No. 5334, p. 14-15. Download full text Freedom and chaos: contemporary Albanian literature. in: Illyria, New York, no. 1416, 4-7 February 2005, p. 5; 1417, 8-10 February 2005, p. 5; 1418, 11-14 February 2005, p. 3, 5. Download full text
2005 Jan 27	Modern Albanian writing and its reception in the English-speaking world. Lecture given at the Humanities Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States, on 27 January 2005. Unpublished. Download full text
2005 Jan 26	Gjergj Fishta and the Albanian national epic. Lecture given at the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, on 26 January 2005. Unpublished. Download full text
2004	Zihni Sako. in: Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung. Herausgegeben von Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, Band 11. ISBN 3-11-017565-7 (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 2004), p. 1053-1055. Download full text Der Islam und die Derwisch-Sekten Albaniens: Anmerkungen zu ihrer Geschichte, Verbreitung und zur derzeitigen Lage. in: Kakanien Revisited, Vienna, 27.05.2004, p. 1-11. Download full text www.kakanien.ac.at/... Download bibliography www.kakanien.ac.at/... Këngë Kreshnikësh: lindja nën sytë e Sigurimit: studiuesi Robert Elsie boton përkthimin në anglisht të 23 këngëve nga eposi i kreshnikëve. in: Shekulli, Tirana, 4 February 2004, p. 19 Download full text
2003	Albanian literature: an overview of its history and development. in: Österreichische Osthefte, Vienna, 45, 1-2 (2003), p. 243-276. Download full text article Franc Baron Nopça dhe Shqiptarët. in: Shekulli, Tirana, 26 December 2003, p. 18. Download full text Zhan-Klod Faveriali dhe Manastiri në historiografinë shqiptare. in: Bota Shqiptare, Rome, 97, 5-18 December 2003, p. 14. Download full text Shenjtët e krishterë të Shqipërisë. in: Bota Shqiptare, Rome, 93, 3-16 October 2003, p. 12-13. Download full text Altes und Neues zur Erforschung der albanischen Volksepik. in: Kakanien Revisited, Vienna, 29.10.2003, p. 1-4. Download full text www.kakanien.ac.at/... Nuk bëhesh i famshëm vetëm kur përkthehesh jashtë. in: Ars, e përkohshme letrare, Tirana, 26.10.2003, p. 22. Download full text The Songs of the Frontier Warriors: Albanian oral epic verse. in: Illyria, the Only Albanian-American Newspaper, New York, vol. 13, no. 1246, 3-5 June 2003, p. 8, and vol. 13, no. 1247, 6-9 June 2003, p. 8. Download full text
2002	Albanians. in: Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. David Levinson, Karen Christensen, et al. (ed.). Vol. 1. (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 2002), p. 79-81 Download full text Stuart Mann: historiani i parë anglisht i letërsisë shqiptare. in: Seminari Ndërkombëtar per Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare: Punimet e Materialeve të Seminarit XX Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare, Prishtinë, gusht 2001 (Universiteti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë, Prishtina 2002), Vol. 2, p. 199-202. Download full text "Gjahu i Malësorëvet" i Kostandin Kristoforidhit dhe përkthimi i tij gjermanisht nga Maksimilian Lamberci. in: Teuta Toska & Vjollca Asllani (ed.): Përmbledhje me studime për Konstandin Kristoforidhin. Materiale nga Konferenca Shkencore Ndërkombëtare 'Konstandin Kristoforidhi, Figurë e Ndritur e Rilindjes Kombëtare Shqiptare'. Botim i Universitetit Aleksandër Xhuvani (Sejko, Elbasan 2002), p. 87-92. Download full text Preface. in: Albanistica - duemiladue, a cura di Italo Costante Fortino. Dipartimento di Studi dell'Europa Orientale (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale," Naples 2002), p. 7-10. Download full text
2002 Jan 17	Die Derwisch-Sekte der albanischen Bektaschi: Anmerkungen zur ihrer Geschichte, Verbreitung und zur derzeitigen Lage. Vortrag gehalten an der Universität München am 17. Januar 2002. Lecture given at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany, on 17 January 2002. Download full text
2001 Aug 22	Të dhëna të reja për albanologun ungarez: Franc Baron Nopça dhe kontributi i tij në fushën e albanologjisë. Inaugural lecture as a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova, Prishtina, 22 August 2001. Published in: Rilindja, Prishtina, 1 September 2001, p. 20. / Fjala e mbjatur në rastin e pranimit si anëtar i Akademisë së Shkencave e të Arteve të Kosovës, Prishtinë, 22 gusht 2001. Botuar në: Rilindja, Prishtinë, 1 shtator 2001, f. 20. Download full text
2001	Franc Baron Nopça dhe shqiptarët. Fjala e mbajtur me rastin e inaugurimit në ASHAK. in: Rilindja, shkojcë kulturë, letërsi, art, Prishtinë, 1 shtator 2001, p. 20. Download full text Zëri i parë shqip. Mbi inçizimin e parë e gjuhës shqipe nga Norbert Jokli. in: Seminari Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare, 19. Punimet e materialeve të Seminarit XIX Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare, Prishtinë-Prizren, gusht 2000. Universiteti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë, Prishtinë, 2001, p. 377-382. Download full text Mendime mesnate nga Kanadaja. Mbi poezinë e Ali Podrimjes. Robert Elsie & Janice Mathie-Heck. in: Jeta e re, revistë letrare, Prishtinë, 2 (2001), p. 310-322.  translation Five emerging Albanian poets. Mimoza Ahmeti, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Visar Zhiti, Bardhosh Gaçe, Lindita Arapi. Presented and edited by Janice Mathie-Heck. Translated by Robert Elsie. in: Filling station, Calgary, Alberta, 22 (2001), p. 52-63. Die drei Frashëri-Brüder. in: Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde (ed.): Albanien. Reichtum und Vielfalt alter Kultur (Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich 2001), p. 147-152. Download full text Albania. in: Countries and their Cultures. Vol. 1, Melvin Ember & Carol R. Ember, ed. (Macmillan Library Reference, New York 2001), p. 12-22. Download full text
2000	Introduction. in: Faik Konitza. Selected correspondence 1896-1942. Edited by Bejtullah Destani. Introduction by Robert Elsie (The Centre for Albanian Studies, London 2000), ISBN 1-873928-18-1, p. vii-xi. Download full text Të dhëna të hershme për ekzistencën e gjuhës shqipe. in: Tempulli, Revistë kulturore periodike, Korça, 2000, 2, p. 19-24. Download full text The Christian saints of Albania. in: Balkanistica, University of Mississippi, 13 (2000), p. 35-58. Download full text
1999 July 12	Die Herkunft albanischer Baumbezeichnungen. Lecture held on 12 July 1999 at the University of Munich. Download full text
1999 June 23	Religionsgemeinschaften unter den Albanern. Lecture held at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, on 23 June 1999, unpublished. / Vortrag gehalten am 23. Juni 1999 an der Universität von Freiburg/Schweiz, unveröffentlicht. Download full text
1999	The Viennese scholar who almost became King of Albania: Baron Franz Nopcsa and his contribution to Albanian studies. in: East European quarterly, Boulder, 33, 3 (1999), p. 327-345. Download full text Introduction. in: The truth on Albania and the Albanians. Historical and critical issues by Wassa Effendi. Introduction by Robert Elsie (Centre for Albanian Studies, London 1999), ISBN 1-873928-63-7, p. i-iii. Download full text Gone but not forgotten. Tribute to the sensitivity and resolve of the Albanian writers murdered in Kosovo this week. in: The Guardian, Saturday Review, 3.4.1999, p. 3. Download full text Camaj, Martin. in: Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th century. Third Edition. Vol. 1: A-D. General Editor Steven R. Serafin (St. James Press, Farmington Hills MI 1999), p. 403-404. Download full text Agolli, Dritëro. in: Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th century. Third Edition. Vol. 1: A-D. General Editor Steven R. Serafin (St. James Press, Farmington Hills MI 1999), p. 21. Download full text Albanian literature since the Second World War. in: Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th century. Third Edition. Vol. 1: A-D. General Editor Steven R. Serafin (St. James Press, Farmington Hills MI 1999), p. 35-36. Download full text
1998 Nov 26	Neues zu dem Wiener Gelehrten, der beinahe König von Albanien wurde: Franz Baron Nopcsa und sein Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Albanien­forschung. Lecture held at the University of Bonn on 26 November 1998, unpublished. / Vortrag gehalten am 26. November 1998 an der Universität Bonn, unveröffentlicht. Download full text
1998 Sept 05	Prolegomena zu einer Heiligengeschichte Albaniens. Lecture held in Arbon, Switzerland, on 5 September 1998 at the international conference on "2000 Years of Christianity among the Albanians," unpublished. / Vortrag gehalten am 5. September 1998 in Arbon, Schweiz, beim Symposium "2000 Jahre Christentum bei den Albanern," unveröffentlicht. Download full text
1998	Der Islam und die Derwisch-Sekten Albaniens: Anmerkungen zu ihrer Geschichte, Verbreitung und zur derzeitigen Lage. unpublished / unveröffentlicht Download full text Das albanische Lexikon des Evliya Çelebi (1662), und was ein Derwisch auf der Durchreise alles wissen muß. in: Südost-Forschungen, Munich, 57 (1998), p. 95-102. Download full text Islam and the dervish sects of Albania. An introduction to their history, development and current situation. in: The Islamic quarterly, London, 42.4 (1998), p. 266-289. Download full text Bukoshi, Bujar (p. 32); Cubrilovic, Vaso (p. 65-66); Demaçi, Adem (p. 71-72); Democratic League of Kosovo (p. 72); Kaçanik, Constitution of (p. 139); Kosovo (p. 145-147); Krasniqi, Mark (p. 150); Qosja, Rexhep (p. 231); Rugova, Ibrahim (p. 248). in: John B. Allcock, Marko Milivojevic & John J. Horton (eds.), Conflict in the former Yugoslavia. An encyclopedia. Roots of modern conflict. Foreword by Martin Bell (ABC-Clio, Denver, Santa Barbara, Oxford 1998), ISBN 0-87436-935-5, xxxiv + 410 pp. Download full text Dendronymica Albanica. A survey of Albanian tree and shrub names. in: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Wiesbaden, 34, 2 (1998), p. 163-200. Download full text
1997	Seksi dhe fillimet e të shkruarit në gjuhën shqipe. in: Bahri Beci, Zejnullah Rrahmani & Xhelal Ylli (eds.), Seminari XVII ndërkombëtar për gjuhën, letërsinë dhe kulturën shqiptare. Përmbledhje e ligjëratave, referimeve, kumtesave dhe e diskutimeve. Tiranë 16-31 gusht 1995. Akademia e Shkencave, Instituti i Gjuhësisë dhe Letërsisë. Universiteti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë (Eurorilindja, Tirana 1997), p. 511-515. reprint in: Bota shqiptare, Rome, 5-12 September 2002, No. 68, p. 8-9. Download full text Leksiku shqip i Evlija Çelebiut i vitit 1662 dhe ç'duhet të dijë dervishi shtegtar. in: Studime, Prishtina, 4 (1997), p. 239-249. reprint in: Bota shqiptare, Rome, August 2002, No. 67, p. 10-11. Download full text The Albanian lexicon of Evliya Çelebi, 1662 A.D., and what a travelling dervish should know. unpublished. Download full text The last Albanian waiter. in: Ruth Petrie (ed.), The fall of communism and the rise of nationalism. The Index reader. Introduced by Irena Maryniak (Cassell, London & Washington 1997), ISBN 0-304-33938-5, p. 150-153. Download full text
1996	Një vjedhje në Dubrovnik dhe dalja në skenë e gjuhës dhe e kulturës shqiptare. in: Përpjekja, E përtremuajshme kulturore, Tirana, 6 (1996), p. 88-92. reprinted in: Rilindja, Prishtina, 26.7.1999, p. 9. Download full text Dendronymica albanica. Vështrim mbi emrat shqip të drurëve dhe shkurreve. in: Studime, Prishtina, 3 (1996), p. 275-318. Albanian print free, not TV or radio. in: Nieman reports, The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Harvard MA, Vol. L, 2 (summer 1996), p. 78-79. Download full text Albanian peril in Kosovo. in: Nieman reports, The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Harvard MA, Vol. L, 2 (summer 1996), p. 79-81. Download full text
1995	Why they said 'No!'. in: Index on Censorship, London, 24.1 (1995), p. 11-13. Download full text Shpirti krijues kosovar. in: Zëri, Javore Politike Shqiptare, Prishtina, 13.5.1995, p. 64. Download full text Rruga e modernitetit dhe koha e artë e letërsisë shqiptare. Kultura shqiptare e viteve 30. in: Përpjekja, E përtremuajshme kulturore, Tirana, 2 (1995), p. 33-39. Download full text Kushtetuta! Kushtetuta! Vier Jahre Demokratie in Albanien. in: Südosteuropa Mitteilungen, Munich, 1995, 3, p. 199-204. Download full text The Elbasan Gospel Manuscript (Anonimi i Elbasanit), 1761, and the struggle for an original Albanian alphabet. in: Südost-Forschungen, Munich, 54, 1995, p. 105-159. Download full text, 662 KB, with figures The Albanian media in Kosovo and the spectre of ethnic cleansing. in: Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung, Munich, 44 (1995), Heft 9-10, p. 614-619. Download full text
1994	translation Teodor Laço. The Pain of a distant Winter. in: Description of a struggle. The Picador book of contemporary East European prose. Michael March, ed. (Picador, London 1994), p. 267- 273. translation Mimoza Ahmeti, The Secret of my Youth. in: Description of a struggle. The Picador book of contemporary East European prose. Michael March, ed. (Picador, London 1994), p. 262-266. Hydronymica Albanica. A survey of river names in Albania. in: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Berlin, 30.1 (1994), p. 1-46. Dorëshkrimi elbasanas i ungjijve, 1761, dhe lufta për krijimin e një alfabeti shqiptar. in: Studime, Prishtina, 1 (1994), p. 125-139. Download full text, 490 KB, with figures The Currents of Moslem and Bektash writing in Albania. in: Albanian Catholic Bulletin / Buletini Katolik Shqiptar, San Francisco, 15 (1994), p. 172-177. Download full text
1993	Visar Zhiti: victim of the surreal. in: Index on Censorship, London, 22.4 (1993), p. 23. reprinted in: Albanian Catholic Bulletin / Buletini Katolik Shqiptar, San Francisco, 15 (1994), p. 128-129. Download full text Romani 'Ngritja e Skënderbeut' (The rise of Iskander, 1833), i shkrimtarit anglez Benxhamin Dizraeli-t. Një zbulim i ri albanologjik. in: Hylli i Dritës, Tirana, 2-3 (1993), p. 113-115. reprinted in: Zëri, Prishtina, 27.3.1993. Download full text Një kulturë - dy realitete. in: Rilindja, Tirana, 1.7.1993, p. 9. reprinted in: Illyria, New York, 408, 19-21.6.1995. Download full text Gjergj Fishta. The voice of the Albanian nation. in: Albanian Catholic Bulletin / Buletini Katolik Shqiptar, San Francisco, 14 (1993), p. 104-113. Download full text Benjamin Disraeli and Scanderbeg. The novel 'The Rise of Iskander' (1833) as a contribution to Britain's literary discovery of Albania. in: Südost-Forschungen, Munich, 52 (1993), p. 25-52. Download full text [Albanian] Theatre. in: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (ed.), Albanien. Südosteuropa-Handbuch. Band VII. Albania. Handbook on South Eastern Europe. Volume VII (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993), ISBN 3-525-36207-2, p. 681-692. reprinted in: Albanian Catholic Bulletin / Buletini Katolik Shqiptar, San Francisco, 15 (1994), p. 192-199. Download full text [Albanian] Literature. in: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (ed.), Albanien. Südosteuropa-Handbuch. Band VII. Albania. Handbook on South Eastern Europe. Volume VII (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993), ISBN 3-525-36207-2, p. 653-680. Download full text
1992	Three poets of the golden age of Scutarine Catholic literature in Albania. in: Albanian Catholic Bulletin / Buletini Katolik Shqiptar, San Francisco, 13 (1992), p. 97-102. Download full text The last Albanian waiter. in: Index on Censorship, London, 21.9 (1992), p. 12-13. Download full text Kasëm Trebeshina, prophet. in: Index on Censorship, London, 21.9 (1992), p. 13-14. reprint as: Kasem Trebeshina. The writer who would not compromise with Enver Hoxha. in: Albanian Catholic Bulletin / Buletini Katolik Shqiptar, San Francisco, 14 (1993), p. 64-65. Download full text Albanian literature in the Moslem tradition. Eighteenth and nineteenth century Albanian writing in Arabic script. in: Oriens, Journal of the International Society for Oriental Research, Leiden, 33 (1992), p. 287-306. Download full text Albanian literature in English translation: a short survey. in: The Slavonic and East European Review, London, 70.2 (April 1992), p. 249-257. Download full text Der letzte albanische Kellner. in: Ostschweizer AZ, St. Gallen, 6.1.1992, p. 2, and 7.1.1992, p. 2. reprint as: Der letzte albanische Kellner. Impressionen aus dem serbisierten Kosovo. in: Pogrom. Zeitschrift für bedrohte Völker. Göttingen, Nr. 165 (Mai/Juni 1992), ISSN 0720-5058, p. 32-33. Download full text
1991	Two Irish travellers in Albania in 1322. in: Albanien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Internationales Symposium der Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft in Zusammenarbeit mit der Albanischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Winterscheider Mühle bei Bonn, 12.-15. September 1989. Südosteuropa Studien, 48. Klaus-Detlev Grothusen, ed. (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, Munich 1991), p. 24-27. Download full text The Scutarine Catholic contribution to the development of nineteenth-century Albanian literature. in: Albanian Catholic Bulletin / Buletini Katolik Shqiptar, San Francisco, XII (1991), p. 91-97. Albanian translation in: Rilindja Demokratike, Tirana, 291 (7.2.1993). Download full text Rezeption albanischer Literatur im deutschen Sprachraum. in: Aspekte der Albanologie. Akten des Kongresses 'Stand und Aufgaben der Albanologie heute', 3.-5. Oktober 1988, Universität zu Köln. Herausgegeben von Walter Breu, Rolf Ködderitzsch und Hans-Jürgen Sasse. Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen Band 18 (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991), p. 167-174. Download full text Evolution and revolution in modern Albanian literature. in: World Literature Today, Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma, Norman OK, 65.2 (spring) 1991, p. 256-263. Download full text The earliest references to the existence of the Albanian language. in: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Berlin, 27.2 (1991), p. 101-105. Download full text Albanische Literatur & Kultur nach sechsundvierzig Jahren Sozialismus. Ein Zustandsbericht. in: Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung, Munich, 11-12 (1991), p. 600-613. Download full text Albanian literature in Greek script. The eighteenth and early nineteenth century Orthodox tradition in Albanian writing. in: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Birmingham, 15 (1991), p. 20-34. Download full text
1990	Proto-Brittonic Celtic and dispersion in the Indo-European lexicon. in: Ollodagos. Actes de la Société belge d'études celtiques, Brussels, 1 (1990), p. 279-321. Modern Albanian literature. in: Albanien in Umbruch. Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Untersuchungen zur Gegenswartskunde Südosteuropas. Herausgegeben vom Südost-Institut. Schriftleitung Franz Lothar Altmann. Band 28 (Munich 1990), p. 247-292. Albania in the 'Anonymi Descriptio Europae Orientalis' (1308 A.D.). in: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Berlin, 26.1 (1990), p. 24-28. reprinted in: Albanian Catholic Bulletin / Buletini Katolik Shqiptar, San Francisco, 15 (1994), p. 157-159. Download full text
1989	translation Konstantinos P. Kavafis. Drei Gedichte. in: Hellenika. Jahrbuch für die Freunde Griechenlands. Herausgegeben von der Vereinigung der Deutsch-Griechischen Gesellschaften (Bochum 1989), p. 116-118. Download full text
1986	The Bellifortis text and early Albanian. in: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Berlin, 22.2 (1986), p. 158-162. Download full text
1984	The Albanian lexicon of Arnold von Harff, 1497. in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung, Göttingen, 97 (1984), p. 113-122. Download full text
1983	Lexicostatistics and its application to Brittonic Celtic. in: Studia Celtica, Oxford, 18-19 (1983-1984), p. 110-127.
1979	monograph The Position of Brittonic. A synchronic and diachronic analysis of genetic relationships in the basic vocabulary of Brittonic Celtic. Doctoral dissertation. Universität Bonn (Bonn 1979), 222 pp.

 

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