“Thirty years ago, from February 8th to 19th, the fourteenth edition of the Olympic Winter Games was held in Sarajevo. A few years after the Olympic facilities, a symbol of common history and life, were targeted” in the Bosnia War. > full text (c) Osservatorio balcani & caucaso, 2014
Photo (c) flickr
A photo by Auguste Léon taken on 15 Oktober 1912 in Sarajevo (c) SZ, 2013
Nationalistic mud wrestling – or pan-European opportunity? The lobbying
is on for the WWI commemoration of Sarajevo in June 2014.
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Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil on the
streets of Sarajevo in 1941. Photo (c) imgur.com, 2013
In his recent Book of My Lives (p. 97-101), the Bosnian American author Aleksandar Hemon (see post above) digs out one of the best-hidden skeletons in the closets of the University of Sarajevo: Professor Nikola Nikola Koljević (1936-97), a Professor of English and internationally renowned Shakespeare expert. Continue reading
A recent BBC documentary on how a 700 year old Jewish holy book was protected by the people of Sarajevo, during the 1992-1995 war. It is the oldest Jewish holy book still in use worldwide. (c) BBC & YouTube, 2012
“Stari Grad, the Sarajevo Old Town, is the historical core of the city. It is in the eastern part of Sarajevo and includes 16 residential areas, including Alifakovac, Baščaršija, Bentbaša, Vratnik and Bistrik. Its area of 55 km² represents 37 per cent of the city and makes it the largest district.” >full text from the “Districts” series (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“For two years, Barbara Demick chronicled the trials of one Sarajevo street (ulica Logavina) during the Serbian siege. In her latest book, Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street, she catches up with the people she befriended.”
> Article by Barbara Demick (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Photo: Laurent Van Der Stockt/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
The First Female Newspaper Editor & Publisher of Sarajevo
This paper is a biographical sketch on the first woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina ever to take the position of the chief editor, publisher and owner of a newspaper. This Croatian-born writer, and journalist was in charge of the newspaper Bosnische Post (published in the German language, 1884-1918) between 1889 to 1896.”
Reblogged from Tinnitus of Books 2010
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