Unlike Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic whose names were mentioned often during one of those popcorn political interrogations I had for the Bosniaks, I never heard of Arkan. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t talk politics all the time. When I have time I listened to…Turbo folk, a cheap cheesy Serbian pop which many Bosnians [...]
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Tose Proeski and Esma Redzepova duet: Magija
Tose is a twenty-something Macedonian pop singer who held a concert in Sarajevo when I lived there. Every morning walking on the streets, I saw this big poster feature a hip youngster holding out the popular orange soda Fanta bottle. I always thought the ad was ridiculous. One day, my roommate Ta. told me to [...]
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Fed up after somebody broke into my car and ripped my CD player system for the second time, I decided to be sound-less in the old red box called Toyota Corolla. A soundless car plus a gypsy-like existence for the next 2 years without regular access to American radio and TV had rendered me in [...]
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Here are some of the hostels I checked out (not staying) while walking around town. LjubiÄicaBaÅ¡aÄarÅ¡ilja M.M. BaÅ¡ekije 65, Sarajevo+387 33 535 829 (phone)+387 33 232 109 (fax)061 131 813 (mobile) taljubic@bih.net.bahostelljubicica@yahoo.comhttp://www.hostelljubicica.net I saw the price as low as 6 euros/person/bed/night in a 8-bed dorm on the price list sticking up the window. However, you [...]
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The background song in this video is “Mostarska” written and composed by Dino Merlin. Scroll down to see the lyrics in Bosnian. I don’t have the English translation at the moment. When I complained to the sister of one of my roommate about the lack of Christmas spirit in Sarajevo, she said, “you should have [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Video: Kemal Monteno – Sarajevo ljubavi moja
Kemal Monteno (born 1948 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) is popular Bosniansinger-songwriter. He was born to a Bosnian mother and Italian father. He recorded his first song "Lidija" in 1967 and has enjoyed a prosperous career in the former Yugoslavia. One of his most popular songs is Sarajevo Love of Mine (Sarajevo ljubavi moja). source from wikipedia [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Video “Radical Islam drowing in Europe 1992-1995 Bosnia”
Comments from the original video poster EL MUDJAHIDIN contains original video footage of persons belonging to this squad and fighting on the side of the so called Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina. An army which Muslims (Another-words Bosnian politicians) introduce to the world as the ONLY army fighting for the unity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, [...]
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