<3 Eight of March, also known as Women’s Day, is celebrated throughout Europe. It is a holiday with no prerequisites, except that of it being a holiday for women only. Although its roots are political, by the time I was in elementary school it transformed into the day on which we made love cards for [...]
Tags: Coffee Break, Sarajevo
This piece depicts certain originalities of Sarajevo. Written by Aleksandar Hemon, and borrowed from habitusmag. Sarajevo Is… The taxi driver who drove me from the airport and, when I observed that the leaves were already beginning to fall, replied: “Why, yes, first watermelons, then lessons,” which, on close analysis, I understood as representing a magic [...]
Tags: Coffee Break, Narrative, Sarajevo
Feelings intertwine today in regards to that time. The greatest achievement of the nineties for us Sarajevans was not surviving until peace, but living during war. Paralleling the smell of gun powder were citizens who went to school, work, and universities as if it was a regular time, and a regular place. We ran the [...]