Photo of the Week
April 27, 2008
Foxy lady. Qumliscixe, Georgia
American Friends of Bulgaria: Interview with Roy and Anne Freed
April 20, 2008
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 [...]
A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia
April 19, 2008
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 [...]
Apocalypse Now
April 15, 2008
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 [...]
Vermonter Helps Macedonian Jews Plant Hope
April 13, 2008
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 [...]
In the Middle of the Road
April 12, 2008
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 [...]
Turkey: A Tale of Two Unions
April 10, 2008
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 [...]
