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More than 8,000 books and over 3,000 titles are available for visitors again at a major historical landmark in Banja Luka.
A library founded originally by the Bosnian Sanjak-bey Ferhat Pasha Sokolovic has been re-opened at a site belonging to the city's Muslim community. "We finally experienced a moment when a part of history, tradition and culture of the people from this area has been recovered," Imam Muriz Effendi Spahic said.
The first ever film festival in Kosovo was held in autumn 2009. It managed to attract a number of film artists from both the region and abroad. The Pri Film Fest took place in Pristina from Sept. 22 to 30, screening a total of twenty five movies and boasting a jury headed by British actress Vanessa Redgrave. The presence of this Academy Award and Golden Globe winner helped attract participants, and also led to media frenzy in Kosovo.
In a short book of four chapters (170 pages including an appendix), Richard Bulliet presents a compelling vision for what he calls an Islamo-Christian Civilization. Bulliet—professor of history at Columbia University, former director of The Middle East Institute, and executive secretary of the Middle East Studies Association—seeks to transcend the all too common ways of seeing and talking about the relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds.
Semih Kaplanoglu’s Turkish drama Honey, the final installment of an autobiographical trilogy that began with Egg (2007) and Milk (2008), was the unexpected winner of the 2010 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear.
After another divisive war, Hollywood now has a chance to get back in the good graces of the American people, who always want to see our fighting men portrayed positively.
Wow. So “Hurt Locker” received nine Oscar nominations on Tuesday. An Iraq-war film that took in just $12 million at the box office now goes against mighty “Avatar,” which grossed nearly $2 billion, and also earned nine nominations. Talk about your underdog story--think “Rocky,” back in the 70s.
If Turkish director Osman Sınav wants to continue the remarkable success of his film and television series “Kurtlar Vadisi,” usually translated as “Valley of the Wolves,” we can suggest the ingredients for the next round: comedy.
After all, the themes of anti-Americanism that made the movie set in Iraq so successful have been used up. The cameos played by Sharon Stone and Andy Garcia were cool, but rather expensive and didn’t have the cache we anticipated. Others in the cinema world have followed on the once-bold themes of intelligence agencies, mafias and a play to “deep state” conspiracy theories.
by Norman Cigar
With the Jewish Holocaust etched in people's memories, how could genocide happen again? Does fierce nationalism necessarily lead to mass murder?
In this study, Norman Cigar provides the first scholarly study of genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, arguing that it is neither the unintentional result of civil war nor the unfortunate by-product of rabid nationalism. Genocide is, he contends, the planned and direct consequence of conscious policy decisions made by the Serbian establishment in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Its policies were carried out in a deliberate and systematic manner as part of a broader strategy intended to achieve a defined political objective the creation of an expanded, ethnically pure Greater Serbia.
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by "The New York Times," and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" ("The Boston Globe"), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
A 20th Century Fox release presented in association with Dune Entertainment and Ingenious Film Partners. Produced by James Cameron, Jon Landau. Executive producers, Colin Wilson, Laeta Kalogrios. Co-producders, Brooke Breton, Josh McLaglen. Directed, written by James Cameron.
The King of the World sets his sights on creating another world entirely in "Avatar," and it's very much a place worth visiting. The most expensive and technically ambitious film ever made, James Cameron's long-gestating epic pitting Earthly despoilers against
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In a short book of four chapters (170 pages including an appendix), Richard Bulliet presents a compelling vision for what he calls an Islamo-Christian Civilization. Bulliet—professor of history at Columbia University, former director of The Middle East Institute, and executive secretary of the Middle East Studies Association—seeks to transcend the all too common ways of seeing and talking about the relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds.
