Gorcin Dizdar, the grandson of the famous poet Mehmedalija Mak Dizdar, posted a story on his Facebook profile that in the cult place where his grandfather spent a good part of his life, a shisha bar was built instead of a museum dedicated to him.
Dizdar reminds that five years ago, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mehmedalija Mak Dizdar, an initiative was launched to form the Mak House and the Mak Dizdar Museum in the former gallery “E” in Male Daire in Bascarsija.
Although the initiative received the initial support of the Mayor of Stari Grad Ibrahim Hadžibajric and the then member of the Presidency of BiH Bakir Izetbegovic, Gorcin points out that the Presidency soon announced that the project received a minus, ie. rejected, and the Municipality of Stari Grad ignored the incoming letters.
The story took a turn when a shisha bar symbolically named Mak was opened in the same space.
“All I know is that I feel completely helpless in the face of this onslaught of primitivism and drunken mentality that is well on its way to destroying the last vestiges of a society I believed I lived in and thought worth fighting for,” Gorcin Dizdar commented disappointedly.
