Fellowship Articles
Cult of Virginity Fades Slowly in Albania
While Tirana embraces the modern sexual revolution, traditional moral codes still hold sway in remote northern Albania. But even there, things are gradually changing.
Kosovars Turn Blind Eye to Fake Foreign Marriages
Kosovar Albanians are increasingly tolerant of men who divorce local wives in order to temporarily marry foreigners and obtain resident status in the West.
Trapped in Black: Balkan War Widows
War widows throughout Europe may have shared a common fate, but their subsequent life experiences - from socially conservative Kosovo to liberal England- are radically different.
Freed Prisoners Remain Caught Behind Bars
Shunned by their families and unable to access formal rehabilitation programmes, many former prisoners in Macedonia quickly reoffend and end up back where they started.
Battered Wives Shunned in the Balkans
Women who evict violent husbands from the family home often face disapproval, even outright hostility, from neighbours and relatives in the patriarchal societies in which they live.
Women Head East for Wombs to Rent
Banned from paying someone to carry a child for them at home, infertile women travel as far as Ukraine in search of surrogate mothers
Addiction to Pills Grips the Balkans
The use of tranquillizers and antidepressants appears to be on the rise in south-eastern Europe, as people struggle to recover from recent wars and cope with the stresses of modern consumerism.
Serbian Church Accused of Sex Abuse Cover-Up
A powerful alliance of Orthodox clergy, judicial officials and politicians may have succeeded in shielding clerical child abusers from justice
Topic
Topic 2010: Taboo
Taboos change – rapidly. Homosexuality was once a taboo in Western Europe, as was “living in sin”, [i.e. outside marriage], abortion, childlessness, physical disabilities, atheism and suicide
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Diary
07 Oct 2010 / 12:33
It was good to talk
06 Oct 2010 / 10:20
Strange Times in Skopje
01 Sep 2010 / 11:20
Completing the B Ring
23 Aug 2010 / 13:35
Ten Intros later...
16 Aug 2010 / 16:23
My last stop
13 Aug 2010 / 10:09
The hardest thing in my research
02 Aug 2010 / 10:20
Two months of silence, so much info
29 Jul 2010 / 12:20
New Depth and Vision Gained in Vienna
27 Jul 2010 / 14:54
Now is the time to write
16 Jul 2010 / 11:13
Heat Follows Me Everywhere, Even to London
