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Balkan Insight
April 26, 2018
Turkish pro-government daily newspaper Yeni Safak reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP, will organise a rally in Sarajevo on May 20. The event is part of Erdogan's re-election campaign; he is running for the presidential office again as theÃâà...
Belarus News (BelTA)
April 25, 2018
SARAJEVO, 24 April (BelTA - FENA) - Roundtable on "Security at EYOF 2019" is being held in Sarajevo today to point to importance of timely planning of ... Roundtable is organized by the Faculty for Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Security Studies of the University in Sarajevo in cooperation with "EYOFÃâà...
The Independent
April 18, 2018
This once war-torn city suffered the longest siege in modern history in the early Nineties, lasting nearly four years. Today, though, there's much more to Sarajevo than battle scars. The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina is undergoing a radical transformation: modern glass shopping centres, boutique hotelsÃâà...
The Guardian
April 13, 2018
An entertaining whiff of Spinal Tap hangs over Dickinson's anecdotes about his semi-clueless road trip to Sarajevo in this music documentary – an interesting if minor footnote in the history of both the Bosnian war and heavy metal. Interviewed now, Dickinson (who these days looks more rugby club thanÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 8, 2018
The cable car is back as part of the Sarajevo skyline for the first time since it was destroyed during the Bosnian war in 1992. The $12m reconstruction project has taken two years to complete. Al Jazeera's Paul Chaderjian reports. Europe Ãâ÷ Bosnia Ãâ÷ Arts & Culture. Have your say.Give us feedback.
Anadolu Agency
April 6, 2018
By Talha Ozturk. BELGRADE, Serbia. A very famous landmark of Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo, the cable car was reopened on Friday with a ceremony after a 26-year break. Considered as one of the most important symbols of Sarajevo, the cable car was first opened in 1959, but its rise toÃâà...
BBC News
April 6, 2018
Twenty-six years after it was destroyed in the Bosnian War, Sarajevo's landmark cable car has resumed service. The Trebevic mountain was a vantage point for Serb snipers and mortar positions during the 1,425 day siege of the Bosnian capital in 1992-6. It is only in recent years that the minefields haveÃâà...
The Guardian
April 5, 2018
The hillside where tens of thousands used to spend their Saturdays before the 1992-1996 siege of Sarajevo soon became “a symbol of aggression”, recalls mountain guide Fikret Kahrovic. “Trebević was the only place to breathe fresh air when the city was engulfed in fumes, but that all changed and theÃâà...
BLABBERMOUTH.NET
March 12, 2018
"Scream For Me Sarajevo", a documentary telling the story of a 1994 concert given by IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson while the Bosnian War was raging and Sarajevo itself was under siege, will be screened in select U.K. cinemas from April 17. There will also be a question-and-answer session withÃâà...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
March 12, 2018
Cardinal Vinko Puljic, president of the bishops' conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina, holds a relic and picture of Emperor Charles I of Austria during a March 8 assembly in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The emperor was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004. (Credit: CNS photo/Paul Wuthe, courtesyÃâà...
Kuwait Times
March 6, 2018
SARAJEVO: Eli Tauber, a pillar of Sarajevo's Jewish community, waited anxiously for worshippers to arrive at the synagogue as there must be at least 10 men present before starting the Sabbath prayers. To the historian's great relief 11 men and a woman, most of them elderly, turned up for the service ledÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 6, 2018
Colina Kapa Astronomical Observatory in Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo, currently unusable due to the damage it sustained during the war between 1992 and 1995, misses its good old days. Once the flagship of astronomical studies in the country, the observatory is now a ghost of itself riddled withÃâà...
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
March 1, 2018
I was a little miracle war baby who made it. I defeated the odds of health complications, my mother's high-risk pregnancy and malnourishment. My family went without food, water and electricity for over four years. This was especially detrimental to my pregnant mother, who prior to having me miscarried twinsÃâà...
Balkan Insight
February 28, 2018
Former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has turned down an offer to be made an Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo – after the Bosnian capital rescinded an earlier decision to award the Turkish Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk. "First of all, I should have been informed that I was nominated for the HonoraryÃâà...
The Guardian
February 20, 2018
Pamuk had been nominated for the honour by local publisher and bookshop Buybook, which suggested the Nobel laureate be made an “honorary citizen of Sarajevo” as he was planning to visit the city this spring while working on a screenplay about Bosnia during the war. According to Buybook directorÃâà...
Business Insider
February 7, 2018
abandoned sarajevo olympics venues A view of the disused ski jump from the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics on Mount Igman, near Sarajevo, Bosnia. Dado Ruvic/Reuters On February 8, the 2018 Winter Olympics will kick off in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The country has devoted over $1 billion towardÃâà...
TRT World
December 31, 1999
Eli Tauber, a pillar of Sarajevo's Jewish community, waited anxiously for worshippers to arrive at the synagogue as there must be at least 10 men present before starting the Sabbath prayers. To the historian's great relief 11 men and a woman, most of them elderly, turned up for the service led by a local manÃâà...
Inquirer.net
December 31, 1999
Eli Tauber, a pillar of Sarajevo's Jewish community, waited anxiously for worshipers to arrive at the synagogue as there must be at least 10 men present before starting the Sabbath prayers. To the historian's great relief 11 men and a woman, most of them elderly, turned up for the service led by a local manÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
The award is given annually, and foreign nationals are eligible if they are deemed to have contributed to Sarajevo's advancement, "the improvement of international relations, and the values of solidarity, democracy, humanitarianism, and mutual tolerance." Previous recipients include Austrian politicianÃâà...
