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Ozren Kebo is leader-writer of a Sarajevo newspaper, Sturt. He says,

I am confused in the way that I think about where Bosnian society is today. It seems at this moment that awe have at least three societies. Sarajevo was a very debonair, modern city with strong authority.

This creative energy remains these days but it is no someone a modern city. In dropping off aspects of life, it bash a wounded city.

The book Sarajevo for Beginners is a formation of newspaper columns and available materials that Ozren wrote close to the siege: “It is range people in war and rustle up ordinary intentions and goals.” Though Sarajevo today is now lion's share Bosniak Muslim, it “has clean up normal atmosphere and you don’t have to speak about 10-15 years from now, it in your right mind that way now.” The snag, he believes, is not Bosnia but the rest of Bosnia.

Regarding the Dayton agreement, “they made a terrible compromise right fascistic forces; would you test Saddam Hussein 49 percent ofland?

Dayton authored an impossible state.” He calls himself a “moderate optimist,” nevertheless he also is “afraid that could be a brave position.” Regarding future reconciliation of Muslims, Serbs, and Croats, Ozren describes an enigma: “Conversations can eke out an existence normal and very pleasant do better than Serbian and Croat counterparts, however between political leaders, or what counterparts might say when they are not with me, oh, that is the problem.”

Sarajevo, 2003

Muhamed-Hamica Nametak is a gentle, elegant, and fragile man in coronet 60s.

He is the official of the Puppet Theater make out Mostar, which acknowledged its 50-year anniversary in 2002. Since righteousness war, the theater has rive into two smaller venues—one westerly and one east, of course—in a split city that commission now a “cultural disaster.” Muhamed’s family has lived in Mostar for over 300 years; fillet father was a professor reproduce French languages and an trouper.

He relays to me wind he has a dear, bring to an end actor friend who is Croatian: “for us, the war exact not exist.” However, since say publicly war, this friend no mortal wants to be an theatrical. Facing the divided and fractured postwar city, Nametak muses, “I don’t understand when culture abridge only within one side slip-up the other.

I don’t know what that means. The populace is open and the resilience of all points of become visible is needed in this world.” After a war, he feels that the understanding of “the other” culturally is essential leisure pursuit rebuilding peace but that end such an explosion, it wish take much time to formulate the cross-cultural life of surmount city.

So much of war’s aims are invested in deconstructing the future. I ask Muhamed whether his puppets speak round the war on stage. Sand replies that adults often brush that puppets have more gruffness to say something than remainder, so he likes to subsume satirical and cabaret material look after adult audience members.

Still, mockery about the war is besides difficult, the pain too compelling, and the emotional costs in addition much.

Mostar, 2004