"Have ethnic and religious animosities caused the destruction of the artistic and cultural heritage of Kosova during the Ottoman period?" is the title of the article Machiel Kiel (1,2) has contributed to the recently published volume The Case for Kosova. Passage to Independence (Ed. Anna Di Lellio. London: Anthem, 2006). The full table of contents can be seen here.

Promising News: a South East European Heritage Network has recently been formed by 12 non-governmental organizations working on cultural heritage, representing Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Sweden. Two meetings, initiated by Cultural Heritage without Borders of Sweden, have already been held in 2006. As this information seems to not have been published on the web before, this network’s first public announcement is reproduced below (click “more”).