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Tag Archives: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Remembering Yugoslavia Meets Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
With many thanks to the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast and Peter Korchnak!
The Bridge on the Neretva (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“To look at it is good; to stand on it is as good.” (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon) THE COVER OF nearly every edition of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon prominently features the same extraordinary architectural, cultural, and pontine monument … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, California, Cultural Diplomacy, destruction, European Union, former Yugoslavia, Mostar, NATO, Rebecca West, restoration, Stari Most, Yugoslavia
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Working Titles (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“I write books to find out about things.” (Paris Review, 1981) FOR THIS PROJECT I have four individual editions of Black Lamb separated in publication by 80 years. More than 25 years ago I started reading the 1994 Penguin Books … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Balkan Ghosts, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Books, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canongate, Capitol Hill Books, Christopher Hitchens, COVID19, Croatia, former Yugoslavia, KFOR, Kindle, Los Angeles Review of Books, Macedonia, NATO, Penguin, Quarantine, Rebecca West, Richard Holbrooke, Robert Kaplan, Serbia, travel books, travelogue, Viking Press, Yugoslavia
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Plenums and Power (Power v. Force III)
The past two weeks have been astounding to witness in Ukraine and Bosnia- Herzegovina. While I haven’t been able to follow quite as intimately what has happened in Ukraine, media reporting from that country has been very good. In Bosnia … Continue reading
Posted in North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Arab Spring, Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Communism, current-events, EU, European Union, force, hannah arendt, NATO, nature of politics, politics, repressive regimes, transitional justice, Ukraine, western political philosophy, Yugoslavia
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Bosnian Culture is World Culture: March 4 is Global Museum Solidarity Day
Today more than 200 museums, galleries and libraries in nearly 40 countries on five continents symbolically closed exhibits in solidarity with seven closed and threatened cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More than 20 galleries and universities in North America, 50 in … Continue reading
Day of Solidarity with the Cultural Institutions of Bosnia-Herzegovina: March 4
Imagine if Congress refused to fund the Smithsonian Institutions — the most visited museum complex in the world — not because of “sequestration” or spending cuts but because Democrats and Republicans in Congress could not agree on whether it should … Continue reading
Posted in Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged art gallery, Bosnia-Herzegovina, cultural institutions, former Yugoslavia, library, museum, Sarajevo
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