"Bostjan Videmsek is much more than one of the leading journalists and reporters of his generation: in his texts, he artfully combines direct witnessing to today's conflicts (mixing with refugees, etc.) with the profound reflection on the global context of such events. His new book Dispatches from the Frontlines of Humanity: A Book of Reportage is an absolute gem--hopefully not a hidden one--and a must-read for anybody who simply wants to find his or her way in today's global mess. The deep engagement of his writing makes Videmsek a kind of living fossil: they simply do not produce journalists and non-fiction writers like him anymore. Read his book and you will not only see new unknown aspects of our reality, you will also see the reality you thought you know well in a new way." Slavoj zizek "This chronicle of the brutal underside of globalization is a bloody valentine to the golden era of the foreign correspondent. Videmsek's lucid prose provides a sombre reminder of the power of committed journalism, whose final flame flares brightest in his hands against the tide of online hype, commercial tripe, and "fake news" unleashed by the new captains of media. He takes the reader to places they may not want to go but need to see if they are to get a sense of the contemporary pathologies of xenophobia, capitalism, and war.

The prose is unembellished and unsparing: there is no promise of hope to sugar-coat the suffering described here, only a gesture toward the common humanity invoked by sharing the pain that vibrates through every page. The book is essential reading for any university lecturer, undergraduate or graduate student in humanities and social sciences." Zala Volcic, Monash University, Australia "Only very few us has the courage and the talent to look human kind straight in the eye and tell the story of real people when human kind is reducing its own story to statistics and figures. And even fewer tell the stories of tragedies in the way that celebrates the resilience and the joy of being a human. Bostjan does exactly that in this book and creates a symphony of pain and hope." Ece Temelkuran.