In our region, many international artistic and literary festivals fall in
the May-June period, which this issue of the magazine covers. Consequently, we devote a special section to information
and reflection about the most significant festivals. These events create a
space where cultural dialogue among the Balkan countries, as well...
The Bridge
New Janissaries, old refrains
Nadezhda Alexandrova/
Dr. Nadezhda Alexandrova is an associate professor at the Faculty of Slavic Studies...
Romania: a hostile home for its Roma
Ioanida Costache/
Ioanida Costache is a PhD candidate in ethno/musicology at Stanford University, where she works on issues of...
“The exclusion of the Roma is historical and hysterical”
Vasile Ionescu is a writer, one of the founders of the Roma political movement in Romania and a member of the Wiesel...
Cosmopolitanism as philosophy, as refuge, and as destiny
Ágnes Heller/
Agnes Heller is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory....
Why Europe needs a bit of ‘balkanisation’
Jean-Patrick Connerade/
Jean-Patrick CONNERADE is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Imperial College London, Honorary Professor at the East...
When Propaganda Fails
Andrew Finkel (Istanbul)/
Andrew Finkel has been a journalist based in Turkey since 1989, during...
A WOMAN AMID MONDRIAN’S CUBES
Gradimir Gojer/
Gradimir Gojer is a Bosnian theater director, writer and actor who was born in Mostar, in 1951. He studied and earned...
Polip Festival/ Who Will Bring the Word to Me[*]
Saša Ilić/
Saša Ilić is a writer, journalist, and social activist. He has published three short story collections, The...
Festival Krokodil/ How about Cruel optimism – XI literary festival KROKODIL
Ana Pejović/
Ana Pejovic (1980, Prijepolje, SFR Jugoslavija) is a cultural professional and a...
International Literary Festival “Pro-Za Balkan” 2019/Synergy: literature, film, music
The 7th International
Literature Festival Pro-Za Balkans, which
brings together well-established authors from Balkan countries, was
held in Skopje from 19-22 May...
The Boss of the Old Bazaar
Alek Popov (Festival Award winner)/
Alek Popov (born Sofia, Bulgaria, 1966) is a leading Bulgarian...
South East European Film Festval/ A European window to the Balkan film
South-East European Film Festival is an international film festival of 15 South-East European countries. The festival is screening a selection of feature,...
MEMORY’S LENS
Patricia Corbett/
Patricia Corbett is an independent arts critic, curator and lecturer, specialising in interdisciplinary genres. A former director...
Deconstructing family, deconstructing the country: the new wave of Greek cinema in the age...
Kostas Peroulis/
Kostas Peroulis was born in Pireas in 1974. He studied law and comparative...
The Scream of Bedri Baykam
Bedri Baykam claims that he started to paint when he was only two years old, and has had several exhibitions since the...
Instrument of activity
Biljana Djurdjević /
Based in Belgrade, Serbia, Biljana Djurdjević is an artist whose work in a range of media,...
REQUIEMS FOR ORALITY
Ardian Vehbiu/
A writer, publicist and linguist now based in New York, Ardian Vehbiu is...
Between Festivals and Roma discrimination
In our region, many international artistic and literary festivals fall in
the May-June period, which this issue of the magazine covers. Consequently, we...
THE WALL AND THE BRIDGE
In a recent interview, Pope Francis talked about the walls, both legal and physical, being built by wealthy countries to keep out...
We live in a time when the European dream is at risk
Where is Europe going? This question is being asked with increasing concern. We live in a time when the European dream is...
DOSSIER/ WOMEN’S CONDITION: WHY BETTER IS NOT ENOUGH
Tatyana Kmetova is an anthropologist and an activist in different NGOs in Bulgaria since 1991. She is a founding member and Executive...
Interview/ Zilka Spahić Šiljak: Women have to struggle more than men to overcome challenges
Zilka Spahic-Siljak is a university professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she lives and works. She is a leading research scholar and public...
Always disobedient
By Staša Zajović
Feminist ethics – Women in Black resistance
We have always been disobedient: ever...
Always disobedient – Women in Black
Activist group and network of feminist/antimilitaristic/antinationalistic/ antifascist/alter globalist orientation, whose members are women, but also men of diverse generations and ethnicities, level...
The lived experience of Albania
Born in 1987 in Bucharest, Romania, Alice Teodorescu is a cultural analyst, bloggerand author. She studied communication and media studies at the...
BALKAN WALLS AND CULTURAL OSMOSIS
Venko Andonovski (1964), the bestselling novelist, short-story writer and playwrightduring the last fifteen years in Macedonia. His work has been translated in...
Young people in the Balkans: Bridges over the river of the history of conflict
Geron Kamberi is currently an Associate Researcher and works for different Albanianthink tanks. Last three years he worked as Executive Director of...
TO RHODES IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SULTAN CEM
Nedim Gürsel, born in 1951, is a Turkish writer. In 1979, he received inSorbonne his doctorate in comparative literature after completing his...
About Photography
Burim Myftiu (b.1961, Prizren) is an Albanian-American photographer, curator and visual artist. He is a member of New Haven’s Arts Council in...
AFTER THE BATTLE
Anastassis Vistonitis was born in Komotini, Northern Greece, in 1952. He studied Political Sciences and Economics in Athens and Philosophy in Thessaloniki....
FROM PRISHTINA WITH LOVE (AGAIN)
Vladimir Arsenijević (b. 1965 in Pula, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is an awarded and internationally acclaimed Serbian writer, translator, editor and publicist. He won the 1994 NIN-award for his...
“PARASHUTA”, by Edi Hila
Edi Hila was born in Shkoder in 1944. Hila studied painting at the National Academy of Art in Tirana until 1967. Around...
“The Cyclist”, by Dado Djuric
Dado, born Miodrag Đurić in 1933 in Cetinje, Montenegro, chose as an artistic pseudonym the pet name given him by his mother,...
Where politics ends, culture starts
By Amila Kahrović-Posavljak
December is probably the liveliest cultural month in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the summer vacations and...
Transpositions between Poetry and Music
By Gonca Özmen
Gonca Özmen was born in Burdur, Turkey, in 1982. She studied English Language and Literature at Istanbul...
On the Right Side of the Sea
By Alek Popov
Alek Popov (born Sofia, Bulgaria, 1966) is a leading Bulgarian writer, author...
European values, the first step in the foundation of Academica Balkanica Europeana
Jordan Plevnes (1953) is the Secretary General of the Academia Balkanica Europeana. He is also founder and Rector of University of audiovisual arts, ESRA...
THOUSANDS OF YESTERDAYS BUT ONLY ONE TOMORROW.
Text by Jacques Lacarriere (1925-2005), spiritual founder of Actor of Europe, published in daily newspaper Le Figaro, Paris, in August 2003, for the First edition...
Problems with intercultural dialogue: Misleading symmetry
Amila Kahrović Posavljak was born in Sarajevo, 1984. She survived three and a half years of siege as a child and it...
Balkaniotheque: in Search of a Region’s Identity
Thodoris Nikolau was born in Chalkis, Greece in December 1982. His first interaction with investigative journalism comes in 2007, in the newspaper...
FROM “CLOCK WITHOUT HOURS” (2016)
by Ana Blandiana
White on White
I write in white on white
Though I...
Parallel / Normal
Doruntina Basha a playwright and screenwriter from Prishtina, Kosovo. She is the author of five plays and several short screenplays. Doruntina is...
The Bridge
The Bridge
LATEST ARTICLES
New Janissaries, old refrains
Nadezhda Alexandrova/
Dr. Nadezhda Alexandrova is an associate professor at the Faculty of Slavic Studies...
Romania: a hostile home for its Roma
Ioanida Costache/
Ioanida Costache is a PhD candidate in ethno/musicology at Stanford University, where she works on issues of...
“The exclusion of the Roma is historical and hysterical”
Vasile Ionescu is a writer, one of the founders of the Roma political movement in Romania and a member of the Wiesel...
Cosmopolitanism as philosophy, as refuge, and as destiny
Ágnes Heller/
Agnes Heller is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory....
Why Europe needs a bit of ‘balkanisation’
Jean-Patrick Connerade/
Jean-Patrick CONNERADE is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Imperial College London, Honorary Professor at the East...
When Propaganda Fails
Andrew Finkel (Istanbul)/
Andrew Finkel has been a journalist based in Turkey since 1989, during...