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Gazmend Kapllani

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Gazmend Kapllani

Gazmend Kapllani writes for Ta Nea, Greece's largest-circulation daily. His Short Border Handbook is forthcoming from Portobello Books in 2009.

Articles by Gazmend Kapllani

An Athenian Story from…the Alexandra Birth Clinic

By Gazmend Kapllani

This is the fifth and final installment in a series of “Athenian Stories” from Gazmend Kapllani as a complement to our Greek issue this month. In these short dispatches, Kapllani documents…

An Athenian Story…from Afghanistan

By Gazmend Kapllani

This is the fourth installment in a series of “Athenian Stories” from Gazmend Kapllani as a complement to our Greek issue this month. In these short dispatches, Kapllani documents the experience…

An Athenian Story…from Vietnam

By Gazmend Kapllani

This is the third installment of a series of “Athenian Stories” from Gazmend Kapllani as a complement to our Greek issue this month. In these short dispatches, Kapllani documents the experience…

An Athenian Story…from Iran

By Gazmend Kapllani

This is the second installment of a series of “Athenian Stories” from Gazmend Kapllani as a complement to our Greek issue this month. In these short dispatches, Kapllani documents the experience…

An Athenian Story…from Nigeria

By Gazmend Kapllani

As part of our Greek offerings this month, we’re featuring a number of pieces written by Gazmand Kapllani, an extract from whose Short Border Handbook is available on WWB. The pieces all deal with…

From “A Short Border Handbook”

By Gazmend Kapllani

My entire body was stiff, I was freezing cold and shaking all over.

Translated from Greek by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife