In today’s world, the topic of youth remains unaddressed. We live in a time where the cult of youth reigns supreme, youth is portrayed as the best time of life; everyone wishes to stay youthful, beautiful, and vital. Today, youth rules the world. In parallel, the reality is harsh – the youth are roaming, lost, facing unemployment, […]
Femicide is the murder of a woman just because she is a woman. In short. It is neither a crime of passion because there is no such thing, nor is something that ends in the death of a wife or partner after continuous violence a family tragedy. These offences are defined as domestic violence, and perpetrators therefore[…]
During the Polip International Literature Festival which took place in Prishtina in May this year, a debate took place entitled ‘Who is Telling Stories and Who is Sharing Stories?’ During the discussion, the Kosovan poet Mirishahe Syla made reference to Caroline Criado-Perez’s book Invisible Women which argues that male remains the default in many areas of life[…]
In his introductory speech delivered to the audience at the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade during the “Sarajevo in Belgrade” event hosted by the “Kontakt” association, photographer Damir Šagolj emphasized the importance of this event, stating that this connection between the two cities was more necessary than ever. Providing further explanations, he even used his professional[…]
Sarajevo is still a place of strange encounters, a place where you can always meet foreigners with a hard-to-believe background story, which usually begins with hasty and ill-considered decisions to buy some tickets to SJJ – where some challenge or experience makes them stay longer than planned. One such acquaintance is Monica Hanson-Green, an American residing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The[…]
“Extreme wickedness, pathology or ideological conviction are not necessary for an individual to commit an act of endless evil” is a quote by political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt, which seemed most appropriate as an opening line for a text on such a difficult and painful topic as war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sarajevo under shellfire,[…]
A couple of weeks ago, my twelve-year-old son gave his first statement to the police as a witness. My wife, while driving to pick him up from school, dared to use a horn to warn the driver of the Vespa that he had blocked the intersection. That’s why he followed her to school, stooped next to her,[…]
„Девочка, танцуй, всё пройдёт так скоро“ – so many times was that song played in a single night that I already knew it by heart. By the way, the song in question is the ultimate dance hit by Artik and Asti – names that firmly held a serious position in the musical selection of every Ukrainian club[…]
In my view, the best definition of what has been happening to us in terms of the general situation in our society, particularly when it comes to the issue of violence against women, was provided by Adrijana Zaharijević who described 2021 in the following manner, “This entire year fits between the hashtags #nisisama and #nisamprijavila (Eng. #youarenotalone[…]
Had someone told me a week ago that a couple of eggs thrown at a mural would cause such tectonic shifts in an anesthetized and almost completely numbed Serbia, I would not have believed it. And yet, a certain upheaval occurred because, when looking at a broader context and considering the circumstances, there are clear indicators and[…]