Carmina Balcanica – o revistă a dialogului intercultural

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The international cultural magazine Carmina Balcanica has been intiated in 2008. It has as main goals to promote the South-Eastern culture, to establish an intercultural dialogue between people from the East and West, and from the East and East as well. In its pages, the editors delimited the concept of Balkanism, emphasizing the mixture of elements which imbue the psychology, mentality and, correspondingly, the forms of artistic creation specific to the sensitiveness of Southern man, past and present. The editors are trying to reopen the horizon of realities wherein Iorga had envisaged South-Eastern Europe as a historical, spiritual, religious, ethnographic, artistic, cultural, folkloric unity of morals and manners, institutions and influences. At the same time, the editors’ aim is to soften the pejorative, quite demonizing, image of the Levant as Europe’s powder keg. Their intention is also to recall the fact that, above and beyond the tragedies which have been haunting it, the Levant was – and still is – the cradle of a great civilization.