“What is sevdah?” an old man asks a boy. “Sevdah is when my father is…
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The Story of Sevdalinke, Part I: The Saz
Standing at the sliding metal gate that shields his courtyard from the neighborhood, Ćamil Metiljević…
Remembering Srebrenica on the Streets of Sarajevo
At noon today, the coffins of 175 newly identified Srebrenica victims passed through Sarajevo’s city center. Silence…
“I’m Going Back to Sarajevo Because I Love That City”
Born in the Serbian city of Zrenjanin in 1953, Zoran Lesic spent his childhood in…
To the Place I Love
It started on my birthday. I’d just turned eleven and, on February 8, 1984, I…
The Demands of the People of Tuzla, Sarajevo, and Bihac
We’re republishing the demands of the people of Tuzla, Sarajevo, and Bihac here from our…
From Decadent Prewar Sarajevo to Academia in Berkeley and London
Neven Andjelic, a well-known editor of a popular youth radio show in prewar Yugoslavia, managed…