sarajevo

In Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinović writes about seeing Radovan Karadžić on television, stirring up genocidal sentiment with vicious lies.

That year, Sarajevo hosted the Winter Olympics, and basked in the admiration of the world.

Without such competent friends your guide in Sarajevo might not even be alive today.

A guide in Sarajevo even said the UN would sometimes accidentally return captured Bosnian civilians to the Serbian army on the hillside.

I initially meant it as just a photo of a guy in Sarajevo waving hello.

I was just on holiday in Sarajevo (a lovely place -- I'd highly recommend going there before they resume shooting at each other).

I was traveling from Sarajevo (a sad city at the time) on a bus through the Serbian part of Bosnia, and I was a little nervous about that.

When I was in Sarajevo once it a while you'd see writing with Latin characters, once in a while with Cyrillic characters and I also saw writing in Arabic.

I invite you to tell that to the people who gave their lives trying to save archives, artifacts and records when the National Library in Sarajevo was shelled in 1992.

Six years later, Bosnia was in a state of horrific sectarian war, Sarajevo was under siege, and a campaign of religious genocide against the local Muslim population was well underway in the countryside around the city.

In 1913, China assembled its first democratically assembled parliament, weeks after the leader of its largest party, Song Jiaoren, had been assassinated -- a murder that perhaps changed the course of global history as much as the far more famous killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo a year later.

To take an example of one of the more plausible shocks we now face, a miscalculation in the South China Sea could easily set off a chain of events not entirely dissimilar to a shot in Sarajevo in 1914, with alliance structures, questions of prestige, escalation, credibility, and military capability turning what should be marginal to global affairs into a central question of war and peace.

Sarajevo had by far the highest rate of interreligious marriage of any Yugoslav city.

Watching that Olympics from Sarajevo, and then following the news of the war and atrocities just a few years later, was definitely a...

Sarajevo was also a beautiful city until the Orthodox Serbs destroyed it.