🧩 Spent this Saturday morning building the Diasporas Speaking @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social website! 🚀 Coming soon! #Kosova #Kosovo #Albania #Bosnia #Croatia #Montenegro #NorthMacedonia #Serbia #Slovenia #Balkans #DiasporasSpeaking

You have asked for my Diaspora story and my dear friend Arber Qerka-Gashi interviewed me in a BBC Desert Island inspired format where I tell my diaspora story through seven songs. Listen to Music, Memory & Movement: Exploring Diasporic life through sound open.spotify.com/episode/3O0f...

It was an honour and a privilege to be entrusted with Selma Jahic's story. Listen to Selma narrating how her family survived the Srebrenica genocide and the importance remembrance. linktr.ee/diasporaspea... #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #RememberSrebrenica #NeverForget

For this episode of Diasporas Speaking, I speak with Selma Jahić, who, together with her brother and mother, survived the Srebrenica genocide. She shares her family’s story of survival, loss, and the ongoing fight for justice and remembrance. #RememberSrebrenica #NeverForget #Bosnia

Listen in full: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

30 years on, we honour over 8372 Bosniak men and boys murdered brutally by Serbian forces in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Remembering is resistance against denial.

Dear Academics, All materials produced at Diasporas Speaking can only be explicitly used upon written request for permission. Thank you!

Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking: Post-2000 Migration from Serbia: Storming Against Your Government's Political Legacy with Damnjan Jovanovic Listen on Spotify: inkd.in/ebHGCswR YouTube: inkd.in/eUATkADQ ApplePodcasts: inkd.in/eXrP3zZxl

Unfortunately Meta has without reason closed my @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social Instagram page there. While I am waiting to retrieve it, please follow me at @njegruashkruan on IG where I will be posting updates. Thank you 🙏

A few thoughts before #Eurovision 2025 grand final. This is an event that asks contestants and viewers to put politics aside for a night and enjoy a song contest, created in 1956 when all participating countries were at peace with each other, 11 years after most of them had been at war.

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A pleasure to talk to @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social for this one. If @rinel.bsky.social invites you on her podcast, you’re in for a treat.

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Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking: After all, Eurovision explains everything with Dr Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social Listen in full: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

Also proof that Č and Ć or in Albanian Ç and Q are the same letters 😅

What does it mean to learn a language as a non-local when you do not live in the country? Curious insight from Dr Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social in the most recent episode of Diasporas Speaking, where he among others explains how he learned the B/C/S language. linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

„Der deutsche Softwarekonzern SAP beendet einem Medienbericht zufolge seine Programme für Geschlechtervielfalt im Unternehmen. ... Das Unternehmen gibt in dem internen Schreiben dem Bericht zufolge als Grund die starke Präsenz von SAP in den USA an.“ Reaktionäre Waschlappen. #SAPdichtmachen

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Please do not use this word in my presence or at all. Do not write it out. Do not spell. Do not whisper it. After writing this, I had to face a court of whataboutist messages. As if I sat there on my sofa thinking of something spectacular to say. The tone policing is despicable.

Hear the sad story of how a misspent youth hanging out in Seattle led to a misspent dotage hanging out in the Balkans. She gave me a soundtrack too!

Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking: Sounds of Struggle: Music and Cultural Divides in 1990s Serbia with Dr Eric Gordy (@ericgordy.bsky.social) Listen to the full episode: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

I really enjoyed talking to Rina, she asked great questions and got, well, some kinds of answers.

Dr Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social will be our guest in the next episode of Diasporas Speaking: Sounds of Struggle: Music and Cultural Divides in 1990s Serbia (Photo credit: Wiktoria Cocek) Coming soon! #Kosova #Kosovo #Albania #Bosnia #Croatia #Montenegro #NorthMacedonia #Serbia #Slovenia

Five years after the first lockdown, this morning before work I finally baked my first Sourdough bread (that did not fail) 🍞 😋 never late to the party 🥲

After a months break, happy to announce the next episode of Diasporas Speaking! Coming soon! #Kosova #Kosovo #Albania #Bosnia #Croatia #NorthMacedonia #Montenegro #Serbia #Slovenia #Balkans #Diaspora #DiasporasSpeaking

Homemade ciabatta 🤝

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Though I was still a child during the 1990s, it is the memory of Kosovo I consider ‘home’. I sat on the train editing this episode and had to hold back my tears. This episode made me so emotional ❤️

I was honoured to record this episode: ‘Living the Political: Choosing Kosovo’ with with Her Excellency Kosovar Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway Dr Nita Luci Listen to the full episode: linktr.ee/diasporaspea... #Kosova #Kosovo #Albania

I skipped one episode of Diasporas Speaking @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social because I had a two days conference with work & travelled to see my family in Germany. But I have recorded at the same time like a champ. Await for the storm 🌪️

Truly humbled 💗

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Monday morning—before and after coffee ☕️

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Poems on the underground 💗

At the airport: a colleague at the security check tells their colleague to take a break so they can break their fast. Kindness is a practice. 💗

Forgot how fast the Jubilee line was. Feels like we’re shooting to the moon.

Looking forward to speaking at this event on Kosovo’s History & Culture next week in London.

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Her Excellency Kosovar Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway — Dr. Nita Luci will be our guest for the next episode of Diasporas Speaking: Living the Political: Choosing Kosovo #Kosova #Kosovo #Albania #Balkans #Shqip

If you are expecting questions from me re @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social — I’ll send them over today or tomorrow morning. Thanks 🙏

People sometimes underestimate academic expertise—the idea that an academic will spent almost all their waking life thinking about an idea they’re researching. Even when they leave their desks. Are on holiday 😂 etc. Considering every angle possible.

When you get home after 14 hours out with 3 hours sleep. Exhausted.

In the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking Hana Marku, inter alia, explains how refugee-women are erased in the legal system. To listen to the full episode, click on the following link: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking: Gendered experiences in the legal system: refugee and migrant women with Hana Marku linktr.ee/diasporaspea... #Kosova #Kosovo #Albania #Balkans #Diaspora #DiasporasSpeaking

Ten years or so ago, I eagerly read Hana Marku's critical research on gender issues in Kosovo. As a leading post-war Kosovar Albanian feminist, I am honoured to have interviewed Hana for an episode at Diasporas Speaking, where she brings year-long expertise intersecting feminist and legal knowledge.