Kosovo 2.0 wants you!
It’s 8:57 a.m. You’re in Kosovo 2.0’s creative room overlooking downtown Prishtina. You spent the night here. No sleep. Just 10 or so cups of Nescafe and several bags of…
Scattered Blood: The Fall of the Last Castle
Asim Kara Yilan-Bey:
April 23, 1479, Ottoman camp, at the siege of what will be known as the Last Castle.
The siege equipment is all set. Everyone seems to be…
A Smoker Without a Cause
It’s the early evening and I’m on the train home. Two guys in their late teens sit behind me. They’re having a profound conversation about parties and underage hangovers. “Eww,…
Love for your homeland, the most sold item!
The theatrical piece Patriotic Hypermarket is a piece from the artistic research project Perspectives: the meeting of Serbian and Albanian history, which was produced collaboratively by Kulturanova in Novi Sad…
Boundaries
There are those boundaries that separate us. Drawn on a map. They separate one country from another. But there are also those boundaries we make ourselves. The ones that are…
A caricature of the ICO as a policy-maker
The West gave Kosovo three things: security, independence and an International Civilian Office (ICO). Led by an International Civilian Representative (ICR) named Pieter, the seven powerful units that compose this…
The virtue of a zine
I wanted to buy books over the weekend. I was looking for specifically for fiction – something new, something edgy and experimental by an Albanian author. I went to three…
Sometimes a new beginning starts with a haircut
This time I wasn't late. In fact, I was 30 minutes early. So I was told to join the long line of people outside the entrance and wait until they…
The dirty little secret of bad coffee
Coffee, along with rakia and burek, is a consumable lingua franca across the Western Balkans. Unlike the latter two, coffee as a rule of thumb is pretty bad from Rijeka…
Scattered Blood: The Landing
March 15, 14*9, somewhere on the Adriatic Sea These are the scared and worn out faces of my people. I must be strong. I must show courage, for their sake.…
