By LISA What attracted Bill Carter, a guy from Chico, California to Bosnia during the 1992-1996 Siege of Sarajevo? Bill wrote Fools Rush In in 2005. It’s an intense memoir of the sequence of events that led him to board an aid bus to Sarajevo, evade sniper’s bullets, and as fate would have it, help U2 broadcast Sarajevo’s [...]
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Bride over the Drina Added to UNESCO List
The Mehmed Paša Sokolovi? Bridge over the Drina River in the town of Višegrad was recently added to Unesco Hermitage List. This historically significant bridge is featured in Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andric’s “Bridge over the Drina,” a novel describing century-spanning stories and events taking places in Bosnia, affecting the lives of multi-ethnic Bosnians: Muslims, [...]
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This rebellious intellect was born in 1952 in Bosanski Samac, a town of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He criticized Communism and led protests against Tito’s government which resulted in his jail time in Slovenia in his twenties. After the release, he left Serbia to continue his Philosophy study in Germany. Upon returning to Yugoslavia, he taught university courses [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review – With Their Backs to the World: A Portrait from Serbia
I stopped by a book store in Prague one morning, intended to find good books about the Czech Republic when I spotted “With Their Backs to the World.” It is written by Asne Seierstad, a Norwegian journalist who spent an extensive amount of time in Serbia from 1999 to 2004 reporting for the Norwegian press. [...]
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Bosnia & Herzegovina: The Bradt Travel Guide by Tim Clancy You can buy this book, used version, from Amazon.com for $9. In case you forgot to shop for a guide book from home, you can always find this book in at least Sarajevo and Mostar. I think this is because the author of the book, [...]
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