Ifacca Directory

January 2012

Financial crisis grips Bosnia heritage sites

Reading rooms in Bosnia-Hercegovina's National Library have opened without heating as a funding crisis grips the divided country's heritage sites. more >

April 2011

Minister S. Kaplan: "Bosniacs Pleased and Satisfied with Turkey’s Presence in the Region"

Journal of Turkish Weekly conducted an exclusive interview with Minister for Culture and Sports in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and member of the Presidency of Party of Democratic Action (SDA), the largest Bosniacs’ party in BiH, Salmir Kaplan, in Sarajevo, on 24th April 2011. more >

September 2010

Art funding bolsters Bosnia’s ethnic divisions

Seeking state arts and culture funding in Bosnia? Best make sure your project has a distinct Serb, Croat or Bosniak flavour first. more >

February 2006

Rocked to our foundations

Genocide, crimes against humanity, religious persecution: Slobodan Milosovic isn’t short of charges to face at his trial in The Hague. But one charge in particular is intriguing: “The intentional and wanton destruction of religious and cultural buildings of the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat communities.” more >

April 2003

Sniper alley is quiet, but history is restless

With all the news coming out of Iraq about looted or destroyed cultural heritage, other war-torn places may have been forgotten. In Bosnia, thousands of mosques and churches were destroyed, and in the National Museum in Sarajevo, which abutted the infamous sniper alley, the physical damage to the building has been repaired, but the psychic damage to the culture is unresolved. more >

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