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Director Nenad Cicin-Sain revisits the violence of the Bosnian War, detailing how the band U2 rose to the moment with activism, inclusion and a concert.
Watching “Kiss the Future,” a documentary about the band U2’s relationship with wartorn Sarajevo in the 1990s, it’s hard not to think: “We’ve seen this movie before.” That’s not to ...
He managed to leave Sarajevo in 1993, during the second year of the siege that ultimately lasted 1,425 days, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996. [1] He is often mistakenly identified as a member of the Sarajevo String Quartet, which played on throughout the siege. [2] Smailović performing in Sarajevo's partially destroyed National Library ...
U2 first became involved with Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, which stemmed from the ethnic struggle between Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Muslim government forces. Once Bosnia and Herzegovina had declared their independence from Yugoslavia, the Serbs from Sarajevo suburbs surrounded the capital, Sarajevo, as they planned to include a territory of the country as part of their new Serbian state of ...
The siege of Sarajevo (Serbo-Croatian: Opsada Sarajeva) was a prolonged blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the ethnically charged Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by Serbian forces of the Yugoslav People's Army, the city was then besieged by the Army of Republika Srpska.
This past September 23rd was the 23rd Anniversary of one of the most famous and truly meaningful rock concerts ever staged: U2 playing Sarajevo, soon after the end of the war in Bosnia and the ...
Inela Nogić (born 1976) became world-famous during the Siege of Sarajevo when she won the 1993 Miss Besieged Sarajevo contest, [1] which was held in a basement in an effort to avoid the barrage of sniper attacks from Serb militias. Nogić and the other contestants held up a banner that read "Don't let them kill us".
song by Bosnian singer Rizo Hamidović on his 1994 album Inšallah [2] [3] "Grbavica" lit. ' Hunchbackilly ' Mladen Vojičić: 1993./1997. song of wartime-period Bosnia [4] "Iznad Bosne" 'Above Bosnia' Fayo: Amir Kazić Leo: Arel Češljar, Meho Radović: 2022. song sung by Adnan Jakupović [5] "Jedna si jedina" 'You're the One and Only' Edin ...