” “The Week is part of a program of studies that aims at telling the religious history of the whole continent and ends a three-year cycle about the religions of the Balkan region: Catholicism in Croatia and Slovenia (2004), Orthodoxy in Serbia and Bulgaria (2005), and precisely Islam. The "icon" chosen for the Week is the old Mostar bridge, destroyed by the ethnic wars and rebuilt "even too neat and tidy, so much it doesn’t even look real". It is the symbol of a still unstable condition: "While in the past it was a bond, even physical, between different ethnic groups explains Vaccaro now it is just a symbol of a prospect: for the moment the truce has held out, but the rebuilding of a real cohabitation will take much longer". Today the subject of the Week is addressed by Sante Graciotti, a member of the Academy of the Lincei, Paolo Luigi Branca from Milan’s Università Cattolica, Ilber Ortayli from Galatasaray University of Istanbul, Nathalie Clayer from the Centre d’histoire du domanine turc of Paris and Yordan Peev from the University of Sofia.” “
