"Hatred is not in my make-up. I can forgive, but I can't forget," says the singer Ilijaz Delic, who lost three members of his family in the Bosnian war. He is a national treasure in Bosnia, although ...
SARAJEVO, June 20 (Reuters Life!) - British composer Nigel Osborne says the traditional Bosnian Oriental-rooted 'sevdah' music which inspired his new opera can offer Europe a key to a better ...
An uneasy mix of rough sex, politics and Islamic philosophy, Bosnian helmer Jasmin Durakovic’s “Sevdah for Karim” looks at a generation still dealing with the residue of war in the autumn of 2001.
Sevdah music is a traditional form of folk music that comes from Bosnia. It is one of the most emotionally charged and melancholic of all of the musics from the region, comparative to the blues of ...
The Balkan region has arguably the richest and most unique range of folk musics in the whole of Europe; nowhere other than here can you hear musics, scales and rhythms from the near east (and far east ...
The world premiere of Sevdah for Karim, a film by Bosnian director Jasmin Durakovic, opened the Sarajevo Film Festival's Competition Programme for feature films on Saturday. Before the screening, the ...