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“S: A Novel About the Balkans“ by Slavenka Drakulić: From Darkness to the Light (2014) [In English]

2014

This is a story about gradual deterioration of children and women in warfare, about dehumanization and losing souls, about destroying lives. On the other hand, it is also a story about everlasting hope that love concurs all and that you can never break a spirit that was meant to rise above and survive. People should understand that there is no point in seeking revenge and continuing the circle of evil. The only way to put a stop to misery is forgiving and moving on. End all wars on Earth.

Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War \u3c/i\u3e(English Translation), by Vladimír Dzuro

2021

The Balkan War is regarded as a very dark period in world history, with death, torture, destruction, and displacement all being methods used to perpetuate violence against multiple groups of people in the area. The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War by Vladimír Dzuro (hereafter referred to as The Investigator) is a chilling personal account of criminal investigations of the perpetrators of the war that broke out in the former Yugoslavia. Dzuro, initially an employee of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and later the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), addresses the many horrors of this war, spanning into fields beyond the adrenaline-rushing investigations, arrests, and trials. He pays homage to those that are not typically in the public eye but whose work he understands he would have had little success in his investigations without, which helps this book to stand out from my perspective as a graduate student studying forensic anthropolo...

[Ilić Marija, Delić Lidija] The Balkans in Seattle: Chronicle of the 18th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore (University of Washington Seattle, WA, 29–31. March 2012)

Balcanica - Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies , 2012

Review of the 18th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore (University of Washington Seattle, WA, 29–31. March 2012)

Turkish-English Anthology of Turkish Short Stories from Bulgaria

Stories appeared in Hak ve Özgürlük gazetesi between 1991 and 1996.

These stories are taken from the pages of Hak ve Özgürlük newspaper, the official newspaper of The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Hak ve Özgürlük Hareketi or HÖH for short), between 1991and 1996. This is a work in progress. Translations are rough and need additional work.