Sidita Kushi, originally from Albania, is a PhD candidate and instructor in Political Science at Northeastern University. Her research centers on the interplay between human security and economic forces in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She has previously published on Albanian-Serbian narratives, transatlantic identities, Balkan security, the Greek debt crisis, and Albanian and Kosovar domestic policies. Follow her on Twitter @SiditaKushi.
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Published in: 50.50Romani women of the Balkans: battling intersectional oppressionCenturies old oppression founded on gender, race, cultural group, and socio-economic class is being challenged by...
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Published in: 50.50Mitrovica’s symbol: reconciliation amidst inevitability, history, and violence in KosovoMitrovica’s bridge as ‘symbol’ helps obscure the forces of elite manipulation and institutions of power in...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism is for all: exposing gendered limitations of the Albanian maleHegemonic masculinity enforces a half-reality, obscuring women’s perspectives. Yet the irony is that dismantling...
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Published in: 50.50Gendered legacies of Communist Albania: a paradox of progressHoxha's regime used the language of ‘ending conservative traditions’ to justify many of its horrors, but today...
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Published in: 50.50Women of Kosovo: a mirage of freedom and equalityA female President and political discourse that trades in 'gender equality' can't paper over the continued corrosive...