Ballad : A Decree Arrived from Istanbul
A decree arrived from Istanbul, An order from Travnik, Right to the city of Sarajevo, Delivered into the hands of Dizdar-aga: To capture the two Morić brothers, The two Morić brothers, the two young men, […]
Volume 07 No. 2 (2012): April
Omer Hadžiselimović : Two Victorian Ladies in Bosnia, 1862-1875: G.M. MacKenzie and A.P. Irby
Petar Petrović Njegoš once told a group of English officers about a visit paid him by two English travelers in 1843. One of these was a woman. They had come to Cetinje after a hard […]
Holly Case : Karl May, et al.
Consider Karl of Ernstthal A. k.a. Kara Ben Nemsi Who’d never been To Ottoman Turkey And only posthumously Bore the Wild West Clear to South Dakota Where a Shatterhand Would as soon kick aside As […]
Sonja Biserko : Dear Friends, Dear Bosnians (2010)
It is not easy to speak about Srebrenica and the war in Bosnia here in front of you, because it brought you all here to this friendly country where you have found a new home. […]
Edina Bećirević : Hotel Vilina Vlas, Višegrad — Then and Now, Commemorating Rape Victims
Kym Vercoe, an actress with the version 1.0 theatre company in Sydney, visited Višegrad in the summer of 2008. Upon a recommendation provided in a tourist guidebook, she stayed at Vilina Vlas Spa, not knowing […]
Senadin Lavić : On the Wake of Angelina Jolie’s Film
What did Angelina Jolie do? She spoke up about the horrific drama of women who were raped, of what is the most painful wound for a human being: that another can desecrate and destroy you. […]
Fra Ivo Marković : The Astonishing Warning of Angelina Jolie
Contradictory commentaries on Angelina Jolie’s movie In the Land of Blood and Honey stimulated me to watch the movie. It was already clear that Bosnian Muslims liked the movie and that the Great-Serbian nationalists loathed […]
Ivan Lovrenović : On Andrić’s Bosnia
These are the reasons why it is not possible to define Ivo Andrić’s group identity exclusively by ethno-national standards. For the same reasons, it is, strictly speaking, impossible to define the ethno-national cultures in Bosnia […]
Desmond Morris : Tornjak
Also known as the Bonanski Ovcar Tornjak, this ancient breed has been protecting the flocks of sheep and cattle in Bosnia and Croatia for at least 1,000 years. The word ‘tor’ means a sheep-pen. The […]
Author Unknown : My Bilov is World Champion (2006)
SANICA … Mujaga Selman, breeder of Bosnian shepherd dogs from Sanica, Bosnia Herzegovina, crowned his long-time breeder’s work with first place in the World Dog Show, held recently in the Polish city of Poznan. Selman’s […]