Extractions: András Riedlmayer, Harvard University Reprinted from the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin , July 1995 (with changes in orthography to HTML standards. Since some of the characters in this article - in Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, French and other languages - may not appear on the WWW, or may be rendered incorrectly, readers should consult the print edition.) Throughout Bosnia, libraries, archives, museums and cultural institutions have been targeted for destruction, in an attempt to eliminate the material evidence books, documents and works of art that could remind future generations that people of different ethnic and religious traditions once shared a common heritage in Bosnia. In the towns and villages of occupied Bosnia, communal records (cadastral registers, waqf documents, parish records) of more than 800 Muslim and Bosnian Croat (Catholic) communities have been torched by Serb nationalist forces as part of ethnic cleansing campaigns. Response thus far by international agencies, institutions and professional organizations has been only modestly encouraging. UNESCO has given its endorsement to the rebuilding of the National Library and has sponsored several meetings to discuss the project, but has provided little tangible support thus far.
Extractions: Zovko and Ljubo Beslic, the Mayor of Mostar, agreed that Mostars entry onto the world cultural heritage list was, primarily, the project of the City of Mostar, which should bring prosperity to the city and the state. Beslic also mentioned the need to create a good economic environment and educate the citizens about the culture of living, in order to keep Mostar on the UNESCO list in the coming decade.
Extractions: ALAN Review Afterimage American Drama American Music Teacher ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Souls and apples, all in one: Bosnia as the cultural nexus in Nenad Velickovic's 'Konacari.' Style Fall, 1996 by Tatjana Jukic Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Maimed bodies and mined villages are obvious casualties of dirty wars. Maimed culture - including crucial frameworks of knowledge - and mined social institutions are not as visible, but they are equally powerful realities and their destruction may have a much more enduring and serious impact than the more obvious gruesome casualties of war. (Nordstrom 261) Nenad Velickovic (b. 1962) belongs to a group of agile young Bosnian writers whose fiction reveals a new perspective on the Bosnian tradition and history.(1) Unlike many Bosnian writers and artists who left Sarajevo during the war, Velickovic stayed and survived the siege. As a consequence, his texts, written mainly during the siege of the city, are ruled primarily by the rapidly and radically shifting cultural and political dominant. Konacari (1995), his first novel, portrays the wide array of various ethnic and cultural influences that shaped the identity of Sarajevo and the rupture within its identity caused by the war.