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Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

“A maligned Muslim people, abandoned by their brothers and dehumanized by the West...”

By Seema Jilani | August 29, 2025

Aleksandar Hemon on Living at the End of Time

Aleksandar Hemon on Living at the End of Time

On Conclusions

By Aleksander Hemon | October 12, 2023

30 years ago tonight, Sarajevo's National Library was burned to the ground.

30 years ago tonight, Sarajevo's National Library was burned to the ground.

By Dan Sheehan | August 25, 2022

Beyond War">A New Generation of Writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Narrates Life<br Beyond War">

Beyond War">A New Generation of Writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Narrates Life
Beyond War

Stacy Mattingly on the Country's Renewed Literary World

By Stacy Mattingly | July 30, 2020

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

On Community, Violence, and Telling Stories of Trauma

By Literary Hub | July 1, 2019

A Tough Crowd in Doboj

A Tough Crowd in Doboj

Carlo Rotella on the Lecture He'll Never Forget

By Carlo Rotella | October 12, 2018

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How a Background in Human Rights Reporting Shaped My Novel

By Preti Taneja | August 28, 2018

Gay, Muslim, Refugee: On Making a Life in Trump's America

By Aleksandar Hemon | April 9, 2018

Aleksandar Hemon on the Urge to Violence in a Time of Trump

By Aleksandar Hemon | February 21, 2017

When You Name Your Fictional War Criminal After a Real Man By Accident

When You Name Your Fictional War Criminal After a Real Man By Accident

David Savill on Trauma, History, and the Precarity of Naming

By David Savill | January 13, 2017

How the Yugoslav Wars Shaped a Generation of Writers

How the Yugoslav Wars Shaped a Generation of Writers

Lidija Dimkovska on the Other Lost Generation

By Lidija Dimkovska | October 7, 2016

How the Writer Uses Humor: Aleksandar Hemon

How the Writer Uses Humor: Aleksandar Hemon

The Two Founding Members of Future Band "Freemon" In Conversation in Sarajevo

By John Freeman | July 28, 2016

Recovered Memory: On Finding 200 Rolls of Lost Film

Recovered Memory: On Finding 200 Rolls of Lost Film

Photographer Ron Haviv Revisits Images of the Past, From War to Weddings

By Ron Haviv | May 30, 2016

10 Books by Women We'd Like to See Translated: Balkan Edition

10 Books by Women We'd Like to See Translated: Balkan Edition

Macedonia, and Montenegro">A World of Literature from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia,
Macedonia, and Montenegro

By Will Firth | May 19, 2016

Literature Helps Us Cope">This Violent World: How <brLiterature Helps Us Cope">

Literature Helps Us Cope">This Violent World: How
Literature Helps Us Cope

On learning from the writing of Aleksandar Hemon

By M. Sophia Newman | April 12, 2016

Memories of Pan-Yugo Angst

Memories of Pan-Yugo Angst

Sara Nović on Discovering Dubravka Ugrešić Far From Home

By Sara Nović | May 28, 2015

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