By Christopher Deliso
In this detailed interview, Balkanalysis.com director Christopher Deliso gets a contemporary view on Bulgaria from a unique perspective- Americans Roy and Anne Freed, at 91 years young undoubtedly among the most senior of American lovers of this Balkan country.
Roy and Anne had long and distinguished careers in the legal and psychology/social work fields, [...]
A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia
By Ruth S. Farnam, over 30 B/W photos
Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1918), 229 pp.
Reviewed by Christopher Deliso
This remarkable first-hand account of the First World War in the Balkans, available infrequently and only in its original 1918 printing, is the passionately told work of an [...]
By Christopher Deliso
“When they attack, what should I do first?” a young Serbian KPS police commander says. “Should I try to evacuate my children, or fight back? We are twenty, thirty thousand. They are two million.”
The likelihood or not of such an imagined massive assault from Albanians doesn’t matter here in Mitrovica, the city divided [...]
By Christopher Deliso*
It’s a clear warm spring day high on a barren, charred plateau in Macedonia, and Mike Goldstein is holding a Hebrew prayer book in his hands, with a row of tiny saplings decorating the freshly-turned earth at his feet. A retired general in the Vermont National Guard, Mike has been asked by the [...]
By David Binder*
Serbia is both blessed and cursed. So, too, are those blessed and cursed that are forced by geography or other circumstance to deal with Serbia. They usually become entrapped.
The reason is obvious. As defined in the last century by Jovan Cvijic, the preeminent Serbian geographer of the Balkans, “We built our house in [...]
By Oxford Business Group*
The proposed ‘Union for the Mediterranean’, which aims to strengthen ties between the EU and Mediterranean countries in a number of key areas such as energy and security, was approved by EU delegates on March 14 after a two-day summit in Brussels. The suspicion remains, however, that the union may represent an [...]
Nicky Gardner, editor of hidden europe magazine (www.hiddeneurope.co.uk) reports from Pocitelj in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The photo, this week’s Photo of the Week (‘Geometries’, Pocitelj, Bosnia) is the work of Susanne Kries.
The international community has always looked for good news from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Like Bush beleaguered in Iraq, ever-looking for any glimmer of [...]
Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204
by Paul Stephenson
Cambridge University Press (2000), 352 pp., 22 maps and tables
Reviewed by Christopher Deliso
This is one of the most important contemporary books for the history of the Byzantine Balkans. It creates a thoroughly new picture of the social, economic and political life of the [...]
