Sorting Through Ethnicities in the Former Yugoslavia
A quick refresher on the terminology applied to Slavs living in the countries comprising the former Yugoslavia.
Rebecca West: The Evil Empires
In 1915, Great Britain made a treaty with Italy that was quite simple: if Italy declared war on the Austrian Empire, they’d get to rule over all of Croatia once the war was over.
The Siege of Sarajevo & The Tunnel Museum
On the second morning of our stay in Sarajevo, Adam almost choked on his Turkish coffee when I announced that I’d like to go to a museum. The day before, we had the privilege of touring the city with a local – a friend of a friend – who, like most Sarajevans 22 years of age or older, lived through the four year siege on Sarajevo, the longest siege in the history of the modern world.
Rebecca West: The New Woman in My Life
But I am in no way different from her in that sense and there is always something exploitative and selfish in traveling. Like any traveler in a foreign land, she is using the place and its people to advance her own self, to improve and advance her own life, just as I am.
Adam and Molly Go 