A recent BBC documentary on how a 700 year old Jewish holy book was protected by the people of Sarajevo, during the 1992-1995 war. It is the oldest Jewish holy book still in use worldwide. (c) BBC & YouTube, 2012
Archive for Bosnian War
How A Old/Holy Book Was Saved
Posted in Uncategorized with tags book culture, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, Haggadah, Judaism, Sarajevo on 24 March 2013 by delclemSrebrenica: A town still divided
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, Europe, genocide, memorial, Serbia, Srebrenica on 11 July 2012 by delclem
“Ethnic divisions continue to plague this town, where more than 8,000 people were slaughtered in July 1995.” >Full report (c) AL JAZEERA, 2012; photo (c) AFP.
“The War is Dead, Long Live the War”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags aftermath, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, review on 20 June 2012 by delclem
Ed Vulliamy’s account of the Bosnian War (1992-95) and its aftermath shows why the conflict stirred a special anger. >Review (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2012
Photo: elderly Muslim women grieve in a refugee centre sheltering Muslim families after they fled the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 (c) Tom Stoddart/Getty
Mostar, 20 years ago
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, Mostar on 15 June 2012 by delclemA sad document about life & death in Mostar during the fighting in 1992
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)
Androgynous Aussie from the Balkans
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Andrej Pejic, Androgyny, Australia, beauty, Bosnia, Bosnian War, gender identity, masculinity, Serbia on 18 February 2012 by delclemThe amazing story of Andrej Pejić, a young man of Bosnian descent who has become a famous model – for women’s fashion, creating a “third space”, a gender bypass as it were: an embodiment of the utopias of cultural theory as formulated e.g. by Homi Bhabha and Judith Butler?
However, the really interesting question is not his/her sexual orientation – as stupid journalists keep asking – but what created his “in-betweenness”: was it the rejection of the prevailing masculinity concepts of his old country of origin? is it war trauma, at least experienced from a second generation? In any case, there seems to be a Bosnian prehistory which nobody has investigated so far.
Btw., he is the man who outraged censors because he exposed his “breasts”…
What if the whole thing around him is just a clever marketing gimmick?
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.
delirium clemens 