At my colleague’s farewell party last night, I met a friend of her who was Macedonian. With little knowledge about Macedonia, I asked her if they spoke the same language as Serbia, then I said “Kako si!” That was it for our initial conversation. While fiddling with my cell pone and thinking about possible topics [...]

In this short clip, Richard Gere promotes his newest movie “The Hunting Party” in which he plays a journalist returning to Bosnia after the war to search for one of the two most wanted war criminal. This movie is released in September 2007. Richard also mentions Radovan Karadzic’s poems being published and distributed in Serbia [...]

[Visitor's comment] A quite famous Italian rock band wrote, in the 90s, a whole album on the bosnian conflict. They recorded an impressive live concert in a cd entitled “La guerra, la terra” (the war, the earth), and the most touching song is indeed “Cupe vampe” (gloomy flames). I watched them playing it in Banja [...]

After reading an article about Cranberries’ lead singer’s/activist’s commitment in helping the postwar Bosnia, for a long time, I thought “Zombie”, one of Cranberries’ biggest hits, described the events in this country. Only until 2004 when I met a friend from Ireland that I learned “Zombie” was about the ongoing chaos in Northern Ireland. I [...]