AMAN: Recent Episodes
Aman Podcast
AMAN is Heartefact’s new podcast created by young journalists from Kosovo and Serbia within the project Media Voices, supported by the US Embassy in Belgrade. This podcast will be a place where you can hear exciting, trendy, everyday stories from both countries every second Wednesday in a month at 6pm, so stay tuned!
In this episode we will talk about the stereotypes about Kosovo Albanians and Serbs. You will be able to find out what stereotypes actually are, what stereotypes about both groups exist and in what ways we can fight with and combat them. Enjoy!
Dunja Karanović held a very interesting discussion about the current climate in Serbian media when it comes to gender based violence and ethical journalism with Hristina Cvetinčanin Knežević, sociologist, feminist activist and author at Mašina.rs and Balkan Insight, and Danica Đokić, journalist at Cenzolovka.rs and Liceulice Magazine and member of the group Novinarke protiv nasilja (Journalists Against Violence)
Last episode in 2021, we spoke with the founder of Balkanism, an Instagram account (for now) which posts and discusses "all things Balkan". Here is the link, and we hope you enjoy it!
In this episode we hosted alumni of Kosovo School program, which is an educational and exchange program dedicated to strengthening cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia by involving young people from both countries and providing space for interaction and exchange of opinions, views, and even prejudices in order to better understand and get to know each other. It consists of three segments: online schools, study visits to Belgrade and Pristina and collaboration projects, which participants propose and implement.
On permaculture, food waste communities and importance of ecology awareness in general, we spoke with Xhevdet Gegollaj from Foundacioni Jeshil in Prishtina.
n this episode we talked with founders of Prishtina Dog Shelter, Mentor, Slaviša and Bajram on how the adoption of dog works in Kosovo, what are the main rewards of this job and what are the challenges.
What do you think first when Belgrade Pride Week is mentioned?
Maybe on the Belgrade Pride March or even extremists who resort to violence or priests who "clean" the streets of sin.
However, Belgrade Pride Week is much more and you will hear that from Matija Stefanović, Agon Rexhepi and Ivana Lukić talking about it with Jovan Kalem.
In this episode you can hear impressions and experience of Agon Rexhepi, queer activist from Prishtina, on his one-month long residency in Belgrade.
Residency was part of Reconnection 2.0, a project that realizes cultural and artistic exchange between Kosovo and Serbia, implemented by Heartefact fund and Qendra Multimedia.
Are you young and trying to find a job? We understand how hard it is. In this episode of Aman podcast Sanja and Iva talked with their guests about difficulties that young people face in the process of finding a job.
What is the position of women in politics today? On the biggest challenges, but also benefits Marija talked about this topic with Nina Stojaković, member of Executive board from political party Pokret slobodnih građana aka Movement of free people.
Disco was made for dancing. The first discotheque in our region was opened in Belgrade in 1967 - ten years before Studio 54 in New York. Iva and her guests uncovered more interesting facts about disco culture in this episode of Aman podcast.
We are all very frustrated with travel regulations due to Covid 19 and still not sure where we can travel this summer. Where to go from Serbia and Kosovo, and how hard it is to travel this summer but in general from these two countries is what Sanja and Elion talked about in this episode.
Did you know about Sunny Hill festival, EXIT or Dokufest? Do you know what are the pandemic measures for travelings and festivals? In the first episode, Teodora & Valmira are talking about summer festivals in Serbia and in Kosovo, so hear them out!