All articles by - Arbër Qerka-Gashi
Arbër Qerka-Gashi is a London-based writer, curator and researcher. He holds a BA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a master’s in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture from Birkbeck, University of London. He writes on themes related to the Balkans, Albanian identity, diaspora experiences and Kosovo’s cultural expression.
Baklava brings blessings
How a dessert can carry cultural identities and family histories of survival.
Progressive except for Kosovo
In Serbia’s student protests, Kosovo remains a limit to the solidarity, progressiveness and the challenge to power otherwise displayed by protestors.
Ending the silence cycle
My journey with mental health as an Albanian man
Yugo-nostalgia overlooks Albanians
Anti-Albanian sentiment persists, even in diaspora communities.
I am Kosovar-Albanian
“Kosovar” does not undermine my Albanian identity.
‘Ti nuk je shqiptar’
The standardization of Albanian culture and the erasure of diversity.