Tag Archives: Kosovo

Turpin: The Black Sheep, the Scapegoat, and Democracy’s Slaughtered Lamb

Life in Postwar Kosovo as the U.S.’s ‘Burek Republic’

PRISTINA, Kosovo (A.W.)—On March 19, a snowy day and a month after the Republic of Kosovo’s second anniversary of its independence from Serbia, I sat and talked in Kosovo’s capital with artist and local unemployed folk musician Atjem Gashi, 27, about the state of Kosovo’s youth unemployment [...]

Jeffrey Fleishman and the Sound Byte War

LA Times War Correspondent Talks about Kosovo and ‘Promised Virgins’
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—On May 14, Jeffrey Fleishman, the Los Angeles Times Cairo Bureau chief and former Philadelphia Inquirer war correspondent assigned to the war in Kosovo from 1999-2000, spoke to the Weekly about his debut novel Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad (Arcade Publishing, February 2009) [...]