Thirty years ago, war raged in the city of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, where Gino Yevdjevich was once a pop artist. In our latest segment of “Movement,” our series on music and migration, we hear how this conflict changed Gino’s life and led him to create the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.
One hundred years after the First World War, boundaries established after the armistice at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh hour” still shape many of today’s conflicts. From ISIS’s invasion of Mosul to Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls, GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott journeys from Iraq to Nigeria to the Balkans to Northern Ireland and the Holy Land to see how WWI’s history lives on, the lessons learned — and far too often not learned.
This Sunday, Bosnia-Herzegovina will play its first World Cup match ever. More than two decades after the country was torn apart by ethnic violence, this national team symbolizes a new page in the country’s history.This Sunday, Bosnia-Herzegovina will play its first World Cup match ever. More than two decades after the country was torn apart by ethnic violence, this national team symbolizes a new page in the country’s history.
The brutal war in Bosnia ended nearly 20 years ago. But at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague the conflict is still being dissected in detail.
At the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, the prosecution has wrapped. Now for the defence.
The Sarajevo Haggadah was written in the 14th century as an illustrated guide to the Passover seder. Bosnian-born composer and concert accordionist Merima Kljuco was inspired to turn the book, and its story, into a piece of music.
The Sarajevo Haggadah was written in the 14th century as an illustrated guide to the Passover seder. Bosnian-born composer and concert accordionist Merima Kljuco was inspired to turn the book, and its story, into a piece of music.