“Hundreds of war memorials have been built since the Balkan conflicts, but some governments exert no control over how much public money is spent or whether new monuments provoke ethnic tensions.” >text (c) balkaninsight.com 2013
(reblogged)
Archive for bosnia-hercegovina
Monument-Building Boom in the Balkans
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, bosnia-hercegovina, Croatia, cultural analysis, Kosovo, memory politics, war monuments on 29 June 2013 by delclemBosnia: a model for the planet?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, Europe, multiculturalism, travel on 14 January 2013 by delclem
“In many ways, the country has what the rest of Europe has lost.”
>full text /travelogue & photo (c) NBC NEWS, 2009
“All the news that’s fit to . . . draw”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, graphic novel, Joe Saccho, journalism, Malta, Palestine, war crimes on 24 October 2012 by delclem
“Comic-book journalism is a rare phenomenon, and there are few better practitioners than Joe Sacco. The work might be labour intensive, but the results can tell stories that other media can’t.” >Full text (c) IRISH TIMES, 2012
“Watching it happen…”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, Canada, Croatia, radio footage, Yugoslav Wars, yugoslavia on 24 April 2012 by delclem
The Canadian radio show Living Out Loud featured news reports from the early 1990’s and recordings with people who escaped the fighting in Bosnia and Croatia – also people who came to Canada before the wars broke out, people of Bosnian, Serb and Croatian background and their Canadian born children. All of them were interviewed separately in Toronto in 1992/ 1993, and then twenty years later >audio link (c) CBCradio, 2012
>More photos from Sarajevo, 1992-1995
Life & death on my street in Sarajevo
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnian War, Sarajevo, siege, ulica Logovina on 9 April 2012 by delclem
“For two years, Barbara Demick chronicled the trials of one Sarajevo street (ulica Logavina) during the Serbian siege. In her latest book, Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street, she catches up with the people she befriended.”
> Article by Barbara Demick (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Photo: Laurent Van Der Stockt/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
In memoriam of 11,541 Dead
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnian War, photos, Sarajevo, siege on 6 April 2012 by delclem
The 20th anniversary of the start of the longest siege
in modern history, Sarajevo 1992-1995. 11541 red
chairs mark the number of the Sarajevans who died.
Photo (c) City of Sarajevo, 2012
>Photo album of the siege
“War dog”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Aleksandar Hemon, bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnian War, dogs, Literature, USA on 2 April 2012 by delclem
“How an Irish setter helped my family get through the Bosnian War.”
A literary essay in Cultural Kynological Studies by Aleksandar Hemon
“My sister and Veba remember the last time they took Mek and Don for a walk before the war started. It was April 1992, and there was shooting up in the hills around Sarajevo; a Yugoslav People’s Army plane menacingly broke the sound barrier above the city; the dogs barked like crazy. They said: ‘See you later!’ to each other as they parted, but would not see each other for five years.”
>read full text (c) GRANTA / Slate.com, 2012 (reblogged)
In the lands of clichés and money?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Angelina Jolie, bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnian War, film, Hollywood, review, USA on 13 February 2012 by delclemIs Angelina Jolie’s first film as a director a revival of “tribalistic” Balkan clichés – or more? On verra… The LA TIMES is quite positive in their review.
A non-profit ad…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, NGO, travel on 25 November 2011 by delclem
Discover Bosnia is a 16 day trip for anyone wanting a vacation experience that is as personally challenging as it is adventure-filled. With a particular focus on the conflict that tore Bosnia apart during the early 90’s, participants will connect both intellectually and emotionally with the war’s legacy.
Discover Bosnia runs annually every July – interested? > LINK
Milena Mrazović(-Preindlsberger), 1863-1927
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnische Post, Habsburg Monarchy, Milena Preindslberger-Mrazovic, newspaper, Sarajevo on 18 October 2011 by delclemThe First Female Newspaper Editor & Publisher of Sarajevo
This paper is a biographical sketch on the first woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina ever to take the position of the chief editor, publisher and owner of a newspaper. This Croatian-born writer, and journalist was in charge of the newspaper Bosnische Post (published in the German language, 1884-1918) between 1889 to 1896.”
Reblogged from Tinnitus of Books 2010
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