SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – When customers say they're wearing shoes his dad used to shine, Ramiz Hasani polishes them with special care, and slowly, because for a moment it feels like his old man ...
I have long been fascinated by Sarajevo which has been called the Jerusalem of Europe. In the town centre, Orthodox and Catholic churches, mosques and synagogues, are all side by side. Until the ...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Twenty years ago, as mortar shells began raining down on Sarajevo, killing his friends and neighbours, Vedran Smajlovic did what he knew best to help the city: he played ...
15th century: Sarajevo is founded by the Ottoman Empire. The city grows around a Turkish-style marketplace, adding mosques and roadside inns. 16th century: The city’s first Orthodox church appears in ...
The Sarajevo Film Festival is set to open today in the Bosnian capital for what looks like a bumper 13th edition, organizers said, with plans that include a special late-night walk through the city's ...
Basic supplies such as food and fuel were running low despite the UN airlift. Arms and ammunition were also needed to defend the city. Volunteers took several months to dig the nearly one kilometre ...
Sarajevo City Hall, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand had been attending a reception shortly before he was shot dead and which was destroyed in 1992 by Serb shelling, reopens The destroyed National ...
Aleksander Hemon is a writer and journalist from Sarajevo. He was visiting the United States at the outbreak of war in 1992 and was stranded when the city came under siege. Strangely there are not too ...
It’s been 20 years since Sarajevo suffered the longest city siege in the history of modern warfare. Between 1992 and 1996, for 1,425 days, Bosnian Serb forces killed almost 14,000 residents and ...