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Slovenian journalist: death threats after arms trade trilogy

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:18:09 -0000

In Slovenia, a trilogy published between summer 2011 and spring 2012 has exposed the secrets of the arms trade during the Balkans war and the role of the country's politicians in it. It's been an ache in the sides of those in power and with money and interests whom the book denounces. Co-writer Blaz Zgaga, 38, may be in hiding but he won't stay down

In the country of Slovenians the brown bear is king

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:00:31 -0000

2 million citizens and up to 450 brown bears co-habit the third most forested land in the EU. Slovenia’s Ursos arctos are some of its most protected residents under state and European policies, famous for being unpopularly exported to 'repopulate' the mountains of the French Pyrenees or the Italian Alps. One even made it into the WikiLeaks dispatches, so cafebabel.com had to go into the wild

Krsko nuclear energy: source of Slovenian pride?

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:04:54 -0000

Across the world, the Japanese prime minister has stated that his country should phase out nuclear energy after the atomic disaster in March. But Slovenians stick to their guns. The country's only nuclear plant, which is co-owned by Croatian and Slovenian state energy companies and has been operating since 1983, is only garnering complaints by NGOs now

Five gay friendly neighbourhoods in Europe

('Dimi David Opsimoulis Fernandez',) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:00:31 -0000

As the spectacular gay prides flourish across Europe, cafebabel.com local teams from Paris, Ljubljana, Berlin, Budapest and Athens blog about the scenes across Europe

Slovenia gets thinking: man's attitude to animal

('Natalija Majsova',) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:45:54 -0000

'Man – animal to man' was a two-day project in Ljubljana on 29 and 30 November 2010, organised and run by the student association of culture studies, Kult.co. A series of lectures, art and theatre workshops, film screenings and debates were all dedicated to investigating man's attitude to animal. Extract from cafebabel.com Ljubljana city blog

Art in Slovenia: Eclipse is an 'open vagina nibbling at things'

('Kristina Bozic',) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:16:42 -0000

The anonymous art collective admit they don't 'fit the norms': they use everything from pigs’ heads to world war weaponry to get across their message of social criticism. Ten years on, the female duo from Ljubljana have just finished the final works for their new exhibition '10 – Of Blasphemy We Are Guilty'. We discuss erotic nudes, kitsch art and their being questioned by police for offending the catholic church

Gonçalo M. Tavares: 'I hate the idea that everything you do is new'

('Kristina Bozic',) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:45:00 -0000

The Luanda-born epistemology professor at Lisbon University, 38, talks his award-winning novel 'Jerusalem', and why it took him so long to get published already

Slavoj Zizek: great European export or sell-out to US cultural hegemony?

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:00:00 -0000

The Slovenian philosopher cites Viagra to prop up Lacanian theory, wrote a critique of the matrix and has linked Hegel to sex games and Maggie Thatcher. Zizek is an impish theorist with immense transatlantic and popular appeal. So why haven't we heard of him?