8 March 2024
Publishing house Polica from Skopje published Macedonian translation of the novel “The Storyteller” by Slovenian writer Mirana Likar. The book present a unique testimony depicting individual destinies caught in the maelstrom of historical developments during the twentieth century. “This translation means so much to me and I’m very happy that people can read my book […]
11 April 2022
Ana Ninković, a student at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade caused numerous reactions on the social networks with her documentary film “Violence against women in the domestic songs” that she produced for her exam in “Pop Culture: From digital to trans-media”, and through which she is examining the violence against women through music, […]
23 March 2022
Author: Bojan Blazhevski On the 16th of March, at the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna, a comprehensive retrospective exhibition by the renowned Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei was opened. The exhibition named “In Search of Humanity” gathers in one place Weiwei’s artworks coming from different collections at one location, along with his documentary films. […]
28 January 2022
On January 27, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmès launched the new Belgian passport. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the new passport is more secure thanks to new security and personalization techniques, while the new original design makes it more recognizable “honoring one of the jewels of Belgian […]
28 September 2021
As a child growing up in the Fox Lake Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada, Sharissa Neault would hear the Ininímowin (Cree) language from her grandparents. However, the language was not passed on her mother and consequently not to Neault either. “As I grew older, I heard less and less Ininímowin until I believed it […]
2 September 2021
Conservation and restoration works began on one of the main symbols of the capital of North Macedonia – the Skopje Aqueduct. Irena Stefoska, the Minister of Culture of North Macedonia, accompanied by Aco Kostov, director of the Directorate for Protection of Cultural Heritage, and Kole Chapkanovski, director of the Conservation Center – Skopje, presented the […]
27 August 2021
With the traditional lighting of the Poetry Fire, at Hotel Drim’s summer terrace in Struga, North Macedonia, the Struga Poetry Evenings international poetry festival was opened yesterday evening. The inauguration of the 60th edition of the renown festival took place in presence of numerous poets from North Macedonia and many other countries, as well as […]
10 August 2021
This story by Mira Nabulsi originally appeared on Global Voices on 9th of August 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license. In recent years, as sex education curriculums remain unattainable in most Arab countries, several Arab women have taken on the task of providing alternatives, offering sex-related information via social media to […]
18 June 2021
Comics fans from Italy, a large portion of the Balkans and Turkey have been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the publication of Zagor comics series, which for decades has been one of the most popular in the region. The first episode featuring Zagor was published on June 15, 1961 by the Italian publishing company Sergio […]
21 April 2021
The Government of North Macedonia, on the recommendation of the Cultural Heritage Protection Office and the National Council for Cultural Heritage, has issued a decree to declare the Skopje Aqueduct a cultural heritage of significant importance, subcategory extraordinary significance. With this decision, the Aqueduct is now enlisted in the constitutional category “Public good of general […]
24 December 2020
On the 22nd of December 2020, the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) published on the internet a digitalized version of its Old Church Slavonic Language archive. Among other documents, it features a voluminous dictionary consisting of over 20 000 entries and over 840 000 word forms, informs Meta.mk agency. The Gorazd digital portal for the […]
17 December 2020
An online public debate organized by two Polish universities will present the legacy of cultural exchange between Poland and North Macedonia and the current context of EU enlargement towards the Western Balkans and its cultural and identity dimension, paying a special attention to Poland’s role in this process. The event will take place on 18th […]
24 November 2020
Danas se u glavnom holu Doma omladine Beograda otvara izložba Džeztetika Tatjane Rantaše, fotografa iz Makedonije. Izložbu sačinjava izbor fotografija različitih generacija makedonskih džez muzičara sa kojima je Rantaša radila zadnjih 15 godina među kojima su: Vlatko Stefanovski, Vasil Hadžimanov, Martin Đakonovski, Emin Džijan, Goce Stevkovski, Toni Kitanovski, Sethstat, Saše Popovski, Bodan Popovski, Kokan Dimuševski […]
21 November 2020
Since the 1970s musicians from former Yugoslavia (which at the time was one country) have been making songs about Amsterdam. The capital of the Netherlands had gained almost mythical status in the pop culture of the region due to the opportunities for activities free from the clutches of the traditional Balkans morality. Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav […]
23 October 2020
“Balkan history has been shaped by the territorial ambitions and disputes of the last century, and so has become a zero-sum game; it also has quasi-religious aspects, insofar as current debates reveal an implicit concern with purity and pollution underlying accusations around loyalty and betrayal. Grievances and disputes escalate; and (to pursue the game metaphor) […]
27 August 2020
During the long weekend ahead, film lovers will be able to watch the movies from the Galichnik Film Festival’s program online for free, the latest film event in the country. This year’s program can be watched for free on the Cinesquare platform starting from tomorrow until Sunday. All films are of the length of up […]
13 July 2020
Comics fans celebrated the 53rd anniversary from the first publication of the Corto Maltese series of graphic novels by the Italian grand-master Hugo Pratt in 1967. According to the stories told in graphic format by Pratt, who himself came from a multinational family, Corto was born in Malta on July 10, 1887 as the son […]
3 July 2020
In order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Government adopted the protocols for the work of libraries, museums, galleries, and other exhibiting spaces. The mandatory wearing of face masks, maintaining a social distance, hand hygiene when entering and during the event will still be into force ,including regular cleaning and disinfection of the […]
7 June 2020
The Greek literary magazine Hartis (Χάρτης, meaning “map”) published a portrait of the Macedonian linguist, writer, translator, poet and member of Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Blaže Koneski (1921-1993). The article, titled “Synaxaria” (Συναξάρια) was published in the June 2020 issue of the magazine and presents part of his life work. The term synaxarion […]
1 June 2020
The Macedonian Students’ Ethnology and Anthropology Society (MSEAS) organized a virtual exhibition “10 years after the Earthquake” with photos by Joel Martin Halpern. The photographs portray Skopje in 1973, 10 years after the devastating earthquake that hit the capital in 1963. The photographs show, among other attractions, the Cathedral “Saint Clement of Ohrid” Cathedral, parts […]
