BalkanThemes Volume 1: Issue 3 – LGBT Rights

February 3rd, 2015

The third issue of BalkanThemes explores the work of organizations promoting LGBT-friendly dialogue in the Balkans, the struggle of three LGBT individuals in a conservative society and the state of LGBT rights across the region of the former Yugoslavia.

Albania Croatia Events Film Inequality LGBTQ Macedonia Montenegro NGO Slovenia

‘Islam: It‘s Also Our History!’: Sparking the Dialogue Surrounding Diversity in Europe

While discussion about Islam’s role in European culture has been ongoing, their shared history goes back much further. Recognizing this history raises questions on how people will live together on this diverse continent.

October 18th, 2017

Chris Much Bermudez

Kapetanović: Art as a Necessary Mirror of Unpleasant Realities

We will meet again one day, When small voices fall silent, So the last may lose their strength, It is not water that puts it out, but the sweat of the brave, Scream for those who want to live— these are some of the messages of Midhat Kapetanović's illustrations, which symbolically honor or call attention to events in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region, and beyond.

March 6th, 2026

Nejla Bakić