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READ: CONSOLIDATION AND NOVELTIES

This is the third year since the beginning of the project READ – Regional Network for Cultural Diversity – funded … Read More

FUAT SEVIMAY – TURKISH WRITER IN TETOVO

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Fuat Sevimay was born in 1972. His books are awarded with several important national prizes. He is also translator of … Read More

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ALEKSANDRA SAVANOVIĆ – SERBIAN WRITER IN ISTANBUL

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Aleksandra Savanović (Novi Sad, 1986) is writer and researcher. She has published two critically acclaimed novels (Deseti život, Kontrast, 2018 … Read More

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DEJAN VASILEVSKI – MACEDONIAN WRITER AND TRANSLATOR IN BELGRADE

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Dejan Vasilevski was born in 1975 in Skopje, Macedonia. He is a translator from Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Bosnian language, … Read More

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IVONA DJURIĆ – SERBIAN WRITER IN TIRANA

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Ivona Djurić (born in Belgrade, 1994) completed her studies in Theory of Dramatic Arts and Media at the Faculty of … Read More

Ivona

ELSA PAJA – ARTIST FROM ALBANIA IN PRISHTINA

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Elsa Paja is a visual artist living in Tirana. Although she completed her studies in Mathematical Informatics Engineering at the … Read More

Paja

IVAN DODOVSKI – MACEDONIAN WRITER IN TIRANA

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Ivan Dodovski (1974) is a Macedonian poet, fiction writer, and professor of critical theory and literature at University American College … Read More

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SARP KESKINER – TURKISH ARTIST IN PRISHTINA

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Sarp Keskiner is a Turkish editor, columnist and producer; he has been active on the publishing and broadcasting scenes since … Read More

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Burhan Sönmez/ Watching Through the Wall

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Burhan Sönmez is the author of four novels, which have been translated into forty languages. He was born in Turkey … Read More

Burhan

Krenar Zejno/ THE OREAD (Opera of the hours in two acts

Krenar Zejno is a poet, fiction writer and essayist. He is author of twelve volumes of poetry: “The Promenade”, “The … Read More

Nikola Madzirov/ HOME — A PLACE OF LEAVING

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Nikola Madžirov (poet, essayist, translator) was born in 1973 in Strumica, in a family of war refugees from the Balkan … Read More

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Jeton Neziraj/ POETICS OF SHAME

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Jeton Neziraj is the former artistic director of the National Theater of Kosovo, and the founder and current director of … Read More

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Tanja Šljivar/ DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST 2020 (Excerpt)

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Tanja Šljivar (1988, Banjaluka, SFR Yugoslavia) studied dramaturgy at the faculty of drama arts in Belgrade and applied theater studies … Read More

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Aleksandra Savanovic/ THE TENTH LIFE (fragment from the novel)

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Aleksandra Savanovic was in residency in Istanbul for one month during the Autumn 2023, hosted by Kalem Culture Association.   … Read More

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Elena Prendjova/ WE USED TO BUILD WORLDS

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Elena Prendjova is a poet, a slam performer and a poetry translator. She holds an M.A. in Philology Science and … Read More

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CHRISTOS ARMANDO GEZOS

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Christos Armando Gezos was born in Himara, Albania, in 1988 and grew up in Greece. He has graduated from the … Read More

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Plàcid Garcia-Planas/ The Day of the Beast

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Plàcid Garcia-Planas has been a reporter for the Barcelona newspaper ‘La Vanguardia’ since 1988. He has covered the disintegration of … Read More

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“READ ON WHEELS” 2023

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(Excerpt from the diary of Nevila Hoxha, the responsible of the activity)   The Traveling Library began its journey through … Read More

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MORE CAPILARITY

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MORE CAPILARITY In the last two years, besides the five partner organizations, READ project included financial support to third parties, … Read More

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Elsa Paja, visual artist

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Elsa Paja – Artist from Albania in Prishtina   1- Art is a form of communication through which you express … Read More

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Sarp Keskiner/ Pedestrians on the Stoney Bridge

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    As part of READ (Regional Network for Cultural Diversity) residency programme, a project funded by the EU, in … Read More

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Arian Leka/ Where Does Light Come From?

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Born in the port city of Durrës, Arian Leka belongs to the group of writers who emerged as avant-garde after … Read More

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A NEW ENDEAVOUR

    Since we started to publish The Bridge by March 2019, our homonymous organization had the ambition that this … Read More

Andrej Nikolaidis/ Did we fail?

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Andrej Nikolaidis (Sarajevo, 1974) is a Montenegrin writer and public intellectual, an anti-war activist and promoter of human rights, especially … Read More

Niko

Agon Maliqi/ The role of civil society in the illiberal equilibrium of the Balkans

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Agon Maliqi is a policy analyst, civil society activist and media writer from Prishtina, Kosovo. Maliqi’s main interests include regional … Read More

Maliqi

Alba Çela/ Our dream should not become a nightmare

Cela

Alba Çela is Executive Director and Head of the European Program at the Albanian Institute for International Studies. She holds … Read More

Cela

Robert Alagjozovski/ Integration starts at faster border-crossing

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Robert Alagjozovski is National coordinator for interculturalism, one society, cultural development and inter-ministerial cooperation in the Government of the Republic … Read More

Robert

Milica Damnjanović Zantvort/ Environment and the Youth

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Milica Damnjannović Zantvort is an environment protection activist from Serbia. She is a member of “Marš sa Drine” (March over … Read More

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Nikola Kurija/ Environmental activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Nikola Kurija is an environmental activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is an activist group coordinator of the NGO “Center … Read More

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INTERVIEW, Chris Keulemans/ Beauty cannot exist where rights are not accessible to all

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Chris Keulemans (1960) is a writer, journalist, teacher and moderator based in Amsterdam, where he founded and/or ran three cultural … Read More

Chris

Ljubomir Kekenovski/ A platform for the New Balkan – Principles & points

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Ljubomir Kekenovski is a professor of Economics at the University St Cyril and Methodius, Skopje. He has previously been President … Read More

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Jutta Benzenberg: How I got into political photography

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Jutta Benzenberg studied photography at the “Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign” München (Germany) and worked afterwards as a photographer for different … Read More

Juta

Poems by Rudolf Marku

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Rudolf Marku is an Albanian poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He is the first Albanian poet to serve as his … Read More

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Alek Popov/ The King of Hunza and the descendants of the Huns

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Alek Popov (born Sofia, Bulgaria, 1966) is a leading Bulgarian writer, author of four novels, several collections of short stories … Read More

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READ AGAIN!

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Almost one year ago, we published a special issue on the activities that were carried out during 2021 in the … Read More

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DOSSIER: X-CHANGING AND CREATIVITY II

Like last year, part of the project READ for 2022 is the program of residency of writers, artists and translators … Read More

AYSUN ALTINDAG/ TETOVO AND BEYOND

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As an illustrator and writer, Aysun Altindag always tries new styles and challenges herself to create constantly. One of the … Read More

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IVANA TRAJANOSKA/ MACEDONIAN WRITER IN TIRANA

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Ivana Trajanoska is a writer, translator, literature researcher, and Associate Professor at University American College Skopje, North Macedonia. Her research … Read More

Ivana

ADRIAN ZALLA/ ALBANIAN WRITER IN ISTANBUL

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Adrian Zalla graduated from University of Tirana with a bachelor degree of philosophy. After that, he ad his master’s degree … Read More

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RADMILA PETROVIC/ SERBIAN WRITER IN PRISHTINA

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Radmila Petrovic (1996) is one of the most soughtafter poets in the region. She has been represented in anthologies, domestic … Read More

Rada

IMER TOPANICA/ ALBANIAN WRITER FROM KOSOVO IN ISTANBUL

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Imer Topanica (1983) is a writer from Kosovo. He graduated from University of Prishtina for Albanian Literature. He has worked … Read More

Topan

AYSUN ALTINDAG/ TURKISH ARTIST IN TETOVO

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Aysun graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Design, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She has been designing products … Read More

Aysun

BEN ANDONI/ ALBANIAN TRANSLATOR IN BELGRADE

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Ben Andoni is a journalist and literary translator from Albania. He has been collaborator or editor of some of the … Read More

Bennn

AG APOLLONI/ ALBANIAN WRITER FROM KOSOVO IN TIRANA

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Ag Apolloni (Kosova, 1982) is an Albanian author. He studied Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Arts, and Literature at the … Read More

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VITOMIRKA TREBOVAC/ SERBIAN WRITER IN TETOVO

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Vitomirka Trebovac was born in 1980, in Novi Sad. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of … Read More

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SERAN DEMIRAL/ TURKISH WRITER IN BELGRADE

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  Seran Demiral, a multifaceted intellectual, is an author of children’s literature and sci-fi writer from Istanbul, Turkey. She started … Read More

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LITERARY FESTIVALS

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  During 2021, because of the pandemics, only two literary festivals took place within the framework of READ. This year, … Read More

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Nikola Nikolic/ Atacama

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Nikola Nikolic was born in Podgorica (1989). He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, where he also received his … Read More

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Poems/ Eqrem Basha

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Eqrem Basha (1948) is a poet, storyteller and novelist born in Dibër. He completed his studies in Albanian Language and … Read More

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Poems/ Radmila Petrovic

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  During his period of residency in Prishtina, Radmila Petrovic, Serbian writer, participated in the literary festival polip. The texts … Read More

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Adrian Zalla/ I am stuck

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During his period of residency in Istanbul, the Albanian author Adrian Zalla participated in the literary festival ITEF. The text … Read More

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Imer Topanica/ OPEN YOUR HEART

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Imer Topanica (1983) is a writer from Kosovo. He graduated from University of Prishtina for Albanian Literature. He has worked … Read More

Imer

Ariana Harwicz/ DIE, MY LOVE

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  Ariana Harwicz was born in Buenos Aires in 1977, and since 2007, she is living in the French countryside. … Read More

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Drago Jančar/ And Love Itself

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Drago Jančar (born in 1948, Maribor, Slovenia) is is one of the most outstanding writers in Central and Eastern Europe. … Read More

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Dragan Velikić/ The Investigator

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Dragan Velikic is one of the most well known Serbian contemporary writers. His novels have been translated in fifteen languages. … Read More

Dragan

Ag Apolloni/ Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame

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Ag Apolloni, Albanian writer from Kosovo, participated in the literary festival Tirana Gate. The text we are publishing was read … Read More

Ag

Aidan Hehir/ THE FLOWERS OF SREBRENICA

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Aidan Hehir is a Reader in International Relations at the University of Westminster. His research interests include transitional justice, humanitarian … Read More

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“READ ON WHEELS” 2022

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The multicultural and multilingual mobile library will travel through the countries of the five partners of READ during a period … Read More

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“READ on Wheels” across Kosovo

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The colorful library on wheels has arrived in Kosovo. This October, the Prishtina-based cultural organization, Qendra Multimedia, has started implementing … Read More

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CAPILARITY

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  Last year, besides the five partner organizations, READ project included financial support to third parties, civil Society Organizations from … Read More

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Adrian Zalla/ Essence of Istanbul, trying to capture lost souls…

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Adrian Zalla graduated from University of Tirana with a bachelor degree of philosophy. After that, he ad his master’s degree of … Read More

Zalla

Vladimir Arsenijevic/ The Year of Magical Thinking 

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  Vladimir Arsenijević (b. 1965 in Pula, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is an awarded and internationally acclaimed Serbian writer, translator, editor … Read More

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READ, AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT

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This issue of our journal will be especially dedicated to the project READ – Regional Network for Cultural Diversity – … Read More

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DOSSIER: EXCHANGING CREATIVITY

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In the previous issue, The Bridge published an announcement for a Call of the European Cultural Foundation related to cross-border … Read More

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FROM THE FESTIVAL POLIP, PRISHTINA: Stanka Radjenovic Stanojevic/ ON THE RAILS

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In 2021, two festivals took place in the context of READ project, one in Prishtina, polip International Literature Festival, from … Read More

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FROM THE FESTIVAL POLIP, PRISHTINA: Adela Demetja/ ***

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Adela Demetja is an artist, curator, writer and producer born in Tirana; she lives between Tirana, Albania and Frankfurt am … Read More

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FROM THE FESTIVAL POLIP, PRISHTINA: Alida Bremer/ DREAMS AND BACKDROPS

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Alida Bremer (born 1959 in Split, Croatia) studied in Belgrade, Rome, Münster and earned her PhD in Comparative Literature in … Read More

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FROM THE FESTIVAL “TIRANA GATE”: Ndriçim Ademaj/ INFUSION

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Ndriçim Ademaj is an Albanian- speaking poet and writer from Kosovo. He graduated in Modern Literature from the Sorbonne University … Read More

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FROM THE FESTIVAL “TIRANA GATE”: Manjola Nasi/ TRUTHS

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Manjola Nasi is a Tirana-based, Albanian poet and translator, winner of “Crystal Vilenica 2019 Award”. A Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program … Read More

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FROM THE FESTIVAL “TIRANA GATE”: Rita Petro/ THE SONG OF THE CROWD

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Rita Petro, also known as Rita Filipi, is an Albanian poet. From 1980-1984 she has studied at the University of … Read More

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FROM THE FESTIVAL “TIRANA GATE”: Ylljet Aliçka/ MADAM K. (fragment from the novel The Internationals)

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Ylljet Aliçka is an Albanian writer, scriptwriter and former Albanian ambassador in France, Portugal, Monaco and at the international heritage … Read More

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Laura Freudenthaler/ The Hottest Summer

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Laura Freudenthaler was born in Salzburg in 1984. She studied German language and literature studies, Philosophy and Gender Studies. She … Read More

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“READ ON WHEELS” 2021

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The multicultural and multilingual mobile library will travel through the countries of the five partners of READ during a period … Read More

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AN ESPECIALLY PERVASIVE ACTION

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In the frame of READ, once per year for a total duration of three years, an open call for proposals … Read More

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DENIZ BESER/ Similarities of Differences

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In his painting series titled Contrast Series, Beşer explores the transitions between what we see and what we speak, by … Read More

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Krzysztof Czyżewski/ THE BRIDGE AND THE MAN

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Krzystof Czyżewski – practitioner of ideas, writer, philosopher, culture animator, theatre director, editor. Co-founder and president of the Borderland Foundation … Read More

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DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY

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The European Union plays a doubly important role in the region often referred to today as the Western Balkans. On … Read More

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Elizabeta Sheleva/ The Balkans as Europe’s Point Zero

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Elizabeta Sheleva was born in Ohrid (1961). She is professor at the Department of General and Comparative Literature, University in … Read More

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Ana Blandiana / How Much Longer Will Post-Communism Last?

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Ana Blandiana was born in 1942, in Timişoara. She is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. Her editorial debut … Read More

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Naz Feka / AN OVER-COMPLEX PROCESS

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Naz Feka (1972) has been involved for many years in EU and other international organisations developmental projects in Albania. He … Read More

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Dr Pere Vilanova / Thirty years after the end of the bipolar world: the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its regional consequences

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Dr Pere Vilanova, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, has served in many international missions, among which, Head of … Read More

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Ozren Kebo / Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union: A path with no beginning yet in sight

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Ozren Kebo, leading Bosnian journalist and publicist, was born in 1959, in Mostar. He has published four books: Sarajevo for … Read More

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Dr. Hikmet Karčić / No country for new heroes

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Dr. Hikmet Karčić is a genocide scholar based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a Researcher at the Institute for Islamic … Read More

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Wolfgang Klotz / EU – Western Balkans, and the lack of an accession-process-model alternative

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Wolfgang Klotz was born 1954 in Lower Franconia as son of a workers family and in an environment deeply informed … Read More

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THE BALKAN THEATER LEGEND, ION CARAMITRU, PASSED AWAY

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Ion Caramitru, (79) the Balkan theater legend, Romania’s first Minister of culture after the fall of Ceaușescu, died in Bucharest … Read More

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FROM EUROPEAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: CALL I-PORTUNUS HOUSES

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i-Portunus Houses’ is the third round of i-Portunus pilot schemes and is a call for host organisations from all creative … Read More

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Eva Blénesi / Productive Ways of Working of Preserving Armenian Diaspora Identity

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Dr. Eva Blénesi is a literary historian of Hungarian-Armenian origin from Transylvania, who is based in Budapest. She is the … Read More

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PHOTO ALBUM: BROKEN DIALOGUE

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Valentin Boboc was born in 1987 in Bucharest, Romania. Has studied Communications and PR at Gheorghe Cristea University of Arts … Read More

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The world is sneezing

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Ndue Ukaj (1977) is an Albanian writer, publicist and literary critic. His poems has been included in several anthologies of … Read More

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Balkan Chorba

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Born in the harbor-city of Durrës, Albania, during the communist regime, Arian Leka(1966) belongs to the group of those authors … Read More

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JOHN DEWEY IN THE BALKANS

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This issue of our journal is focused on the International Scientific Conference on Multicultural Education, which took place last December … Read More

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Agron Rustemi / Multiculturalism as a tool for social cohesion in multiethnic communities

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Agron Rustemi (1981) is an Associate Professor and Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Contemporary Social Sciences at the South East … Read More

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Stefan Rashkovski / Multicultural education: fostering student resilience and building inclusive society

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tefan Rashkovski (Skopje, 1990) started his activity as a journalist immediatly after his bachelor studies. Then he worked in the … Read More

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Francesco Bigagli / Education and Consociational Democracy

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Francesco Bigagli holds a PhD in Humanities from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and an MA in Education and International Development … Read More

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Adina Deacu / When the word “different” means “wrong”

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Adina Deacu is an Environmental Psychology Researcher studying different learning, working and living environments as context of behavior, as well … Read More

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Lazo Matovski / Multiculturalism in the times of pandemic

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Lazo Matovski  was born in Struga in 1985.  He has a multidisciplinary formation: law, journalism, project management, public procurement, European … Read More

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Gudrun Steinacker / LEARNING THE CULTURE OF THE OTHER

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Gudrun Steinacker was born in Düsseldorf, in 1951. She has studied History and Social Sciences in Munich, Münster and Belgrade. … Read More

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Krzysztof Czyzewski / THE ART OF BUILDING BRIDGES

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Krzystof Czyżewski – practitioner of ideas, writer, philosopher, culture animator, theatre director, editor. Co-founder and president of the Borderland Foundation … Read More

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Anne-Marie Autissier / INTERVIEW, EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BRIDGE

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Agrégée de Lettres Modernes and PhD in Sociology, Anne-Marie Autissier is an emeritus lecturer authorized to supervise research at the … Read More

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Obrad Savić / THE FRIENDSHIP OF DIFFERENCES – REMEMBERING IVO BANAC

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After 20 years of teaching History of Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, ObradSavić was first suspended and then, … Read More

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Iulia Enkelana / Punishment

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Iulia Enkelana (the pseudonym of Iulia-Maria Kyçyku, born in 1999 in Bucharest, in a Romanian and Albanian family) is the … Read More

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Delia Chausheva

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Delia Chausheva was born in Sofia in 1965. After her studies in Krakow, Poland, for which she was graduated in … Read More

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Bujar Luma / EUROPE IS IN THE AIR

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Bujar Luma, a theatre director by vocation, integrates into his work of civic activism modern techniques from the art and … Read More

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THE SECOND WAVE AND OTHER THINGS

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This issue of the magazine, just like the previous one, focuses on the pandemic we are experiencing. We are now … Read More

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Georgi Stardelov/ EVERYTHING IS UP TO THE HUMAN BEING

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Georgi Stardelov (Gevgelija, 28 August 1930) is a philosopher, aesthetician, essayist, literary critic and anthologist. He has been President of … Read More

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COVID 2020

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This is a micro-anthology of poems written by authors from different countries of the Balkans during the pandemic, on the … Read More

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Zan Mitrev/ LEADERSHIP IN TIMES OF CRISIS

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Zan Mitrev, a top specialist in the field of cardiovascular surgery, was born on January 11, 1961, in Stip, Yugoslavia, … Read More

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Durim Abdullahu/ Quarantine reminiscence and empty signifiers

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Durim Abdullahu is an assistant in the Department of History and Anthropology at the University of Prishtina. He is a … Read More

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Josep Ramoneda/ The disappearance of the bodies

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Josep Ramoneda was born in Cervera, Spain, in 1949. He is a political philosopher and is very active in the … Read More

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Ardian Vehbiu/ KILLER CONSONANTS

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A writer, publicist and linguist now based in New York, Ardian Vehbiu is the author of 15 books, including several … Read More

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Siddhartha Deb/ Apocalypse Again

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Siddhartha Deb  (born 1970) is an Indian author. He was educated in India and at Columbia University, US. He has written several … Read More

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INTERVIEW/ Courageous Citizens: Alessio Mazzaro

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Alessio Mazzaro’s project Edinost was selected in the 2018 Courageous Citizens grant call Courageous Citizens. What was your idea about? … Read More

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Thedoros Nikolau/ FROM EAST TO NOWHERE

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Theodoros Nikolau was born in Chalkis, Greece in December 1982. His first interaction with investigative journalism comes in 2007, in … Read More

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Bashkim Shehu/ ON CONSPIRACY THEORIES

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Bashkim Shehu is an Albanian fiction writer, who lives in exile in Barcelona. Many of his books have been published … Read More

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THE CHALLENGE OF THE PANDEMIC

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The Bridge, a cultural magazine, is devoting two special issues – this issue and the next one – to the … Read More

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Asli Erdogan/ Sophia, the wisdom of POLIS

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Aslı Erdoğan is a Turkish writer, human rights activist, and columnist . Aslı Erdoğan’s books have been translated to several … Read More

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Perico Pastor/ BON DIA, BARCELONA

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Perico Pastor was born in Seu de Urgel, in 1953. He studied in Barcelona, immigrated to New York in 1976, … Read More

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Interview: Ivan Krastev with Jordi Vaquer/ Pandemic and change

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Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute for … Read More

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Delina Fico/ IN THE SAME STORM, BUT NOT IN THE SAME BOAT

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Delina Fico is a prominent civil society leader and manager with expertise in advocacy, gender issues, institutional and individual capacity … Read More

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Arben Dedja/ A not-so-old- history of pandemics

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Arben Dedja (Tirana, 1964) completed his studies at the Faculty of Medicine (1988) in his hometown and later worked as … Read More

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Woflgang Klotz/ ETHICAL AND POLITICAL COLLAPSE, OR WHAT WE (RE)LEARN FROM COVID-19

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Wolfgang Klotz was born 1954 in Lower Franconia as son of a workers family and in an environment deeply informed … Read More

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Ion Caramitru/ Art in the time of the pandemic

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Ion Caramitru (born March 9, 1942) is a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, as well as a political … Read More

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Nikola Madzirov / Poems

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Nikola Madzirov (poet, essayist, translator) was born in 1973 in Strumica, in the family of war refugees from the Balkan … Read More

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VIRUS(ES)

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In the editorial of the previous issue, we discussed a natural disaster that struck a small Balkan country. Now, we … Read More

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Mediha Adrović: IS IT BECOMING A COUNTRY OF OLD MEN?

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Mediha Adrović was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1979. Graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, Department of … Read More

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Krzysztof Czyżewski: THE CULTURE OF COEXISTENCE IN THE LONGUE DUREE

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On practising the ethos of the borderland   Krzystof Czyżewski – practitioner of ideas, writer, philosopher, culture animator, theatre director, … Read More

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Zharko Basheski: My art – a mirror of the personal experience in the outer world

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Zharko Basheski, born 1957 in Prilep, is a Macedonian sculptor and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. … Read More

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Šejla Kamerić: 1395 DAYS WITHOUT RED

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Šejla Kamerić is a Bosnian visual artist. She works with various media such as film, photography, objects or drawings. The … Read More

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Josep Ramoneda: From “11 Thesis on culture”

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Josep Ramoneda was born in Cervera, Spain, in 1949. He is a political philosopher and is very active in the … Read More

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Aleksandar Prokopiev: CHRONYSTERIC, TRIBUNE, CLOWN

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Aleksandar Prokopiev, born in 1953 in Skopje, is one of he most well-known Macedonian writers. He graduated in 1977 at … Read More

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Thomas Symeonidis: ON ART: Draft for a pocket aesthetic tractatus

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Thomas Symeonidis (Thessaloniki, 1977) studied architecture at the National School of Architecture in Paris (Val-de-Seine) and engineering at Aristotle University … Read More

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Andro Martinović: When everything else is put aside, culture remains

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Interview by Amila Kahrović-Posavljak Andro Martinović – Graduated World Literature and Film and TV Directing. Director of the Montenegrin Cinematheque. … Read More

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Burhan Sönmez: The Yellow East, The White West

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Burhan Sönmez is the author of four novels, which have been translated into forty languages. He was born in Turkey … Read More

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Vladislav Bajac: Before the beginning

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Vladislav Bajac is a Serbian author, translator, and publisher. He was born in Belgrade in 1954 and later studied philology … Read More

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Bashkim Shehu: THE UNHOLY TRINITY OF NEW MEDIA, POST-TRUTH AND POPULISM

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Bashkim Shehu is an Albanian fiction writer, who lives in exile in Barcelona. Many of his books have been published … Read More

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EARTH

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On November 26, an earthquake struck Albania which was so powerful that people felt its tremors in Bosnia and Bulgaria. … Read More

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Gonca Özmen/ Ekphrasis: A Way to Connect Us with the Other

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Gonca Özmen was born in Burdur, Turkey, in 1982. She studied English Language and Literature at Istanbul University, receiving an … Read More

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Georgiana Aldessa Lincan/ I am Roma and I feel privileged because I have white skin

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Georgiana Aldessa Lincan is a 24 years old Roma feminist and activist, graduate of the Master of Politics, Gender and … Read More

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Elizabeta Sheleva/ “Everything I touch turns into Words”

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Elizabeta Sheleva was born in Ohrid (1961). She is professor at the Department of General and Comparative Literature, University in … Read More

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HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE BALKANS/ Sonja Biserko

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Human Rights in Serbia: Subordinated to geostrategic deliberations Sonja Biserko is a Serbian campaigner for human rights. She is the … Read More

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HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE BALKANS/ Deyan Kiuranov

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BG to EU, and Human Rights: negative attitudes, no acts Deyan Kiuranov, PhD, of Sofia, Bulgaria, was active in the … Read More

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HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE BALKANS/ Ismail Tasholli

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I, You and Man Ismail Tasholli studied analytical philosophy at the University of Graz, Austria, furtherly specializing in sociology. He … Read More

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Human Rights in the Balkans/ Robert Wilton

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Ignorance Kills   Robert Wilton is a writer, translator, coach and Balkan wanderer. After a dozen years in the British … Read More

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INTERVIEW, EXCLUSIVELY FOR “THE BRIDGE”/ Fred Abrahams: The collapse of communism and the tragedy of ethno-wars

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Fred Abrahams is associate program director at Human Rights Watch where he trains research staff and supervises work on technology, … Read More

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Amila Kahrović Posavljak/ Is there literature Nobel Prize after Handke?

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Amila Kahrović Posavljak was born in Sarajevo, 1984. She survived three and a half years of siege as a child … Read More

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BALKANOFILMOPHILIA

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The story of the Balkanofilmophilia in today’s reality (cultural, political and historical) of the countries of Southeast Europe is an … Read More

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Péter Krasztev/ Split societies, illiberal salvation

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Péter Krasztev ( Budapest, 1965) is a social scientist, literary historian and translator, Associate Professor at Budapest Business School (Communication … Read More

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Ardian-Christian Kyçyku / Kuciuk/ The Uneaten Pages

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Ardian-Christian Kyçyku / Kuciuk, is a writer in Albanian and Romanian, born on the 23rd of August 1969, Pogradec, Albania, … Read More

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COMMUNICATING VESSELS

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Are the Balkans part of Europe? This question is not simply about geography. Nor is it just about membership or … Read More

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Ferida Duraković/ WAS THE WAR BETTER?

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erida Durakovic (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy. Her first collection of poems, published in 1977, earned two … Read More

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Thomas Tsalapatis/ Crisis in poetry and poetry in the crisis

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Thomas Tsalapatis was born in 1984 in Athens. He studied at the Department of Theatrical Studies of the Philosophical Faculty … Read More

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Andrej Nikolaidis/ SNITCH ON YOU NEIGHBOR

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Andrej Nikolaidis was born in 1974 in Sarajevo, to a mixed Montenegrin-Greek family. In 1992, following the breakout of ethnic strife in … Read More

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Alexandra Channer/ Language, political creativity and the murder of a city

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Alexandra Channer began translating in Kosovo in 2009 while conducting research for her doctoral thesis on Albanian national self-determination movements. She … Read More

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Ágnes Heller/ Cosmopolitanism as philosophy, as refuge , and as destiny (II)

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Agnes Heller is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory. Her awesome intellectual … Read More

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Iulia Enkelana’s Artist’s Statement

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Iulia Enkelana (the pseudonym of Iulia-Maria Kyçyku, born in 1999 in Bucharest, in a Romanian and Albanian family) is the … Read More

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Ivan Krastev/ The Missionary Who has to Become a Monastery

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Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, … Read More

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THE ILLIBERAL EQUILIBRIUM IN THE BALKANS

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Agon Maliqi is a policy analyst, civil society activist and media writer from Prishtina, Kosovo. He is the creator and … Read More

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Josep Ramoneda/ Europe Disconcerted

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Josep Ramoneda was born in Cervera, Spain, in 1949. He is a political philosopher and is very active in the … Read More

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BORIS A. NOVAK: INTERVIEW FOR THE BRIDGE (interviewed by AMILA KAHROVIĆ-POSAVLJAK)

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Boris A. Novak (born in 1953) is a Slovene poet, playwright, translator, and essayist. He teaches Comparative Literature at the … Read More

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Aleksandar Prokopiev/ THE PEEPER (excerpt from the novel)

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Aleksandar Prokopiev, born in 1953 in Skopje, is one of he most well-known Macedonian writers. He graduated in 1977 at … Read More

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Georges Banu/ The Ancient and the Modern or the Crossroads of Continuity

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George Banu was born in June 1943 in Buzău, Romania and is a well-renowned theatre personality and critic. He studied … Read More

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Between Festivals and Roma discrimination

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In our region, many international artistic and literary festivals fall in the May-June period, which this issue of the magazine … Read More

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NEW JANISSARIES, OLD REFRAINS

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Dr. Nadezhda Alexandrova is an associate professor at the Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria. … Read More

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Ioanida Costache/ Romania: a hostile home for its Roma

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Ioanida Costache is a PhD candidate in ethno/musicology at Stanford University, where she works on issues of race and ethnicity, … Read More

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Vasile Ionescu/ “The exclusion of the Roma is historical and hysterical”

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Vasile Ionescu is a writer, one of the founders of the Roma political movement in Romania and a member of … Read More

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Ágnes Heller/ Cosmopolitanism as philosophy, as refuge, and as destiny

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Agnes Heller is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory. Her awesome intellectual … Read More

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Jean-Patrick Connerade/ Why Europe needs a bit of ‘balkanisation’

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Jean-Patrick CONNERADE is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Imperial College London, Honorary Professor at the East China University in … Read More

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Andrew Finkel/ When Propaganda Fails

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Andrew Finkel has been a journalist based in Turkey since 1989, during which time he has corresponded for a variety … Read More

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Gradimir Gojer/ A WOMAN AMID MONDRIAN’S CUBES

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Gradimir Gojer is a Bosnian theater director, writer and actor who was born in Mostar, in 1951. He studied and earned a degree in … Read More

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Lindita AHMETI/ Memoirs

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Lindita Ahmeti was born in Prizren in 1973 and lives in Skopje. Her first poetry collection, Mjedra dhe bluz (Raspberries … Read More

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Saša Ilić/ Polip Festival: Who Will Bring the Word to Me[*]

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Saša Ilić is a writer, journalist, and social activist. He has published three short story collections, The Prevision of the … Read More

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Ana Pejović/ Festival Krokodil/ How about Cruel optimism – XI literary festival KROKODIL

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Ana Pejovic (1980, Prijepolje, SFR Jugoslavija) is a cultural professional and a translator from Belgrade. She has been working in … Read More

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THE BOSS OF THE OLD BAZAAR

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Alek Popov (born Sofia, Bulgaria, 1966) is a leading Bulgarian writer, author of four novels, several collections of short stories … Read More

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Patricia Corbett/ MEMORY’S LENS

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Patricia Corbett is an independent arts critic, curator and lecturer, specialising in interdisciplinary genres. A former director of major contemporary … Read More

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DECONSTRUCTING FAMILY, DECONSTRUCTING THE COUNTRY: THE NEW WAVE OF GREEK CINEMA IN THE AGE OF CRISIS

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Kostas Peroulis was born in Pireas in 1974. He studied law and comparative literature. His collection of short stories Automata … Read More

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THE SCREAM (2010) YOUNG JACKSON POLLOCK (2015)

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Bedri Baykam claims that he started to paint when he was only two years old, and has had several exhibitions … Read More

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INSTRUMENT OF ACTIVITY (2015) PANORAMA (2018)

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Biljana Djurdjević / Based in Belgrade, Serbia, Biljana Djurdjević is an artist whose work in a range of media, including … Read More

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REQUIEMS FOR ORALITY

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A writer, publicist and linguist now based in New York, Ardian Vehbiu is the author of 15 books, including several … Read More

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THE WALL AND THE BRIDGE

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In a recent interview, Pope Francis talked about the walls, both legal and physical, being built by wealthy countries to … Read More

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BALKAN WALLS AND CULTURAL OSMOSIS

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Venko Andonovski (1964), the bestselling novelist, short-story writer and playwright during the last fifteen years in Macedonia. His work has … Read More

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YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE BALKANS: BRIDGES OVER THE RIVER OF THE HISTORY OF CONFLICT

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Geron Kamberi is currently an Associate Researcher and works for different Albanian think tanks. Last three years he worked as … Read More

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TO RHODES IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SULTAN CEM

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Nedim Gürsel, born in 1951, is a Turkish writer. In 1979, he received in Sorbonne his doctorate in comparative literature … Read More

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WOMEN’S CONDITION: WHY BETTER IS NOT ENOUGH

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Tatyana Kmetova is an anthropologist and an activist in different NGOs in Bulgaria since 1991. She is a founding member … Read More

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Always disobedient – Women in Black

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Activist group and network of feminist/antimilitaristic/antinationalistic/ antifascist/alter globalist orientation, whose members are women, but also men of diverse  generations and … Read More

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Interview/ Zilka Spahić Šiljak: Women have to struggle more than men to overcome challenges

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Zilka Spahic-Siljak is a university professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she lives and works. She is a leading research scholar … Read More

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Language

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By Jovan Nikolaidis Jovan Nikolaidis was born in 1950 in Ulcinj, Montenegro. He is a writer, publisher, and journalist firmly … Read More

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THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF ALBANIA

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Born in 1987 in Bucharest, Romania, Alice Teodorescu is a cultural analyst, blogger and author. She studied communication and media … Read More

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About Photography

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Burim Myftiu (b.1961, Prizren) is an Albanian-American photographer, curator and visual artist. He is a member of New Haven’s Arts … Read More

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AFTER THE BATTLE

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Anastassis Vistonitis was born in Komotini, Northern Greece, in 1952. He studied Political Sciences and Economics in Athens and Philosophy … Read More

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WE LIVE IN A TIME WHEN THE EUROPEAN DREAM IS AT RISK

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Where is Europe going? This question is being asked with increasing concern. We live in a time when the European … Read More

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FROM PRISHTINA WITH LOVE (AGAIN)

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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 … Read More

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PROBLEMS WITH INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE: MISLEADING SYMMETRY

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Amila Kahrović Posavljak was born in Sarajevo, 1984. She survived three and a half years of siege as a child … Read More

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PARALLEL / NORMAL

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Doruntina Basha a playwright and screenwriter from Prishtina, Kosovo. She is the author of five plays and several short screenplays. … Read More

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FROM “CLOCK WITHOUT HOURS”

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by Ana Blandiana White on White I write in white on white Though I know nobody Can read it, Not even … Read More

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BALKANIOTHEQUE: IN SEARCH OF A REGION’S IDENTITY

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Thodoris Nikolau was born in Chalkis, Greece in December 1982. His first interaction with investigative journalism comes in 2007, in … Read More

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THOUSANDS OF YESTERDAYS BUT ONLY ONE TOMORROW.

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Text by Jacques Lacarriere (1925-2005), spiritual founder of Actor of Europe, published in daily newspaper Le Figaro, Paris, in August 2003, for the … Read More

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TRANSPOSITIONS BETWEEN POETRY AND MUSIC

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By Gonca Özmen Gonca Özmen was born in Burdur, Turkey, in 1982. She studied English Language and Literature at Istanbul University, … Read More

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WHERE POLITICS ENDS, CULTURE STARTS

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By Amila Kahrović-Posavljak December is probably the liveliest cultural month in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the summer vacations and festivals … Read More

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THE CYCLIST

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Dado, born Miodrag Đurić in 1933 in Cetinje, Montenegro, chose as an artistic pseudonym the pet name given him by … Read More

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PARASHUTA – ALTAR

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Edi Hila was born in Shkoder in 1944. Hila studied painting at the National Academy of Art in Tirana until … Read More

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ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SEA

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By Alek Popov Alek Popov (born Sofia, Bulgaria, 1966) is a leading Bulgarian writer, author of four novels, several collections of … Read More

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