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...seminars hosted by the Department of Slavic Studies. The author, who currently resides in Amsterdam, said that her extensive travels have left her with a sense of cultural “schizophrenia and split-personality.” “I am Bulgarian, Dutch, American, Yugoslavian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Croatian, European, Swedish, Mexican...but that is not enough—give me more identities,” said Ugresic, whose collection of essays “Nobody’s Home” was recently translated into English. Svetlana Boym, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures...
...began to ask about his situation. He had fled with his mother and three younger sisters from Ferizaj, a town of 70,000 located 25 miles (40 km) south of Kosovo's capital, Pristina. They moved from village to village in southern Kosovo before taking a train to the Macedonian border, and then an all-night bus to Senokos. When he brought me to his family's tent, his mother showed me one of the few keepsakes she'd managed to grab before fleeing: Dani's seventh-grade class photo. Her son, she told me proudly, was a star student...
...Macedonian Kerim, an economist by training, has also served as an ambassador from Macedonia to many nations in Europe. Now, as the General Assembly’s president, his job is to propose debate topics and moderates its sessions. Kerim’s appearance was one of the opening events of the Business School’s International Week. A spectrum of languages resonated throughout the air in the auditorium, where many international students had gathered...
Leading the expedition for native flavors is Noma, a visionary modern restaurant in a 250-year-old Copenhagen shipping warehouse. Chef Ren Redzepi is half Macedonian but 200% Dane, and he's on a mission to put the unique tastes of the North Atlantic...
...Sunday's poll, a stern-looking Karamanlis warned he would block Macedonia's efforts to join NATO and the European Union unless a decade-long dispute over the name of the neighbouring state was resolved. The threat sparked a diplomatic tiff between Athens and Skopje since the debate, with Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovksi saying he would withdraw from the U.N.-brokered name talks if Greece vetoed his country's designs to join NATO. Greece argues that Macedonia's name implies territorial claims against its region of the same name...