Sarajevo’s history today in the FT
The Financial Times magazine today has a WWI-related piece by Simon Kuper – Sarajevo: the crossroads of history. “History in the west often serves as entertainment, something to enjoy from … Continue reading
Robertson Recommends
BOOKS Yesterday I bought Richard Sennett’s Together: the rituals, pleasures & politics of cooperation. The blurb says “Living with people who differ – racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically – is … Continue reading
Srebrenica yesterday
My good friend Abdullah Faliq sent me this photograph today. He is in Srebrenica with a group from London. It shows the burial yesterday of the remains of over 600 … Continue reading
What the Serbs wanted to Exit – & Srebrenica
One of the family is in Novi Sad at the mo, at the Exit Festival – I’ve been listening to the livestream. At the same time there’s been a steady … Continue reading
Missing lives – Balkans
Quick post before I catch the train to Vienna. I’ve just seen this news item about a photo exhibition (Nick Danziger & Rory MacLean) which will be travelling from London’s … Continue reading
Life-giving theatre in Bosnia & London
Stef O’ Driscoll (award-winning theatre director) and Mark Griffin (St Mary’s University College, London), friends I’ve made through my thespian daughter, are off to Sarajevo on Friday. They want to … Continue reading
Friends from Bosnia coming to Blackburn
Friends whom the Zajedno u Bosni group met in Tuzla, Bosnia, will be coming over to the UK for the launch of Blackburn Cathedral‘s hosting of the Forgiveness Project exhibition … Continue reading
Breaking and Entering
A great evening with old friends from Papua New Guinea days (now dividing their time between Timor and the US). Then TV news footage of the devastating earthquake in Haiti … Continue reading
Zajedno u Bosni & European Women of Faith Network
SANA’s Paul Johns has been pulling together the report on our visit to Bosnia last month – heard from him yesterday, as well as from Anjum at Blackburn Cathedral which … Continue reading
Bosnia on BBC’s FOOC
From Our Own Correspondent: report from Ed Stourton on the international talks in Bosnia which started while we were there. Is Bosnia a protectorate? The Bosnia report is 5′ 5″ … Continue reading
Radio links
Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4) on Karadzic and war crimes The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has opened at the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for … Continue reading
BBC Newsnight
And BBC Newsnight followed up with its Srebrenica report tonight – catch it now through this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8321388.stm
Catriona Robertson 