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Sarajevo's Castle on a Cloud
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Downtown Sarajevo is the site of all the action: you go there to shop, party, eat, and people-watch. But now, climbing up out of the downtown river valley has become one of my favorite things to do. I live five minutes up the mountain, north of the... Read more
The Carnivore's Dilemma (Sarajevo Edition)
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A meat-lover in Sarajevo confronts only one problem: how to stop eating. My family of eight rarely gets together in the same country, so when everyone was home for Christmas this year, we made an occasion of it and went out for dinner. All out. Kod Kibe... Read more
The Kids Are All Right
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When I was eleven and new to Sarajevo, Fatima knocked on my family’s door in the Bistrik neighborhood with a knot of other kids, and asked if I wanted to play. This meant chasing games with fast counting in Bosnian,jedan-dva-tri, in the narrow,... Read more
My Life is in Ruins
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Sarajevo’s been busy sprucing up, fixing the physical effects of its long siege and the too-generous attention of snipers. While the city’s no glossy Epcot , its ratio of functional to bombed-out buildings is perceptibly on the rise. But... Read more
Writing on the Wall
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Maybe it’s the first sign of a rising generation of political artists and social activists. Or, you know, petty criminals. Either way, Sarajevo’s got graffiti going on in a serious way. It catches me off-guard on the frilly, Austro-Hungarian... Read more

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