Bosnia

Thirty years after fleeing her home country because of the Bosnian war, Elvira Ahmetspahic is sharing a Taste of Bosnia with her Mehlville restaurant.

Brian Jennings’ Bosnian American studies course at Affton High School seeks to engage the district’s large population of Bosnian families — and tell the story of a community shaped by genocide.

The Center for Bosnian Studies is an outgrowth of the Bosnian Memory Project, founded by Fontbonne University Professor Emeritus Benjamin Moore in 2006.

For Nermana Huskić, the seeds of her future as a resource and service provider for homeless people were planted young. At the age of 5, Huskić witnessed…

A teenager from Democratic Republic of the Congo finds himself on the other side of the world, starting a new life in St. Louis. A young Bosnian woman…

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found the former Bosnian Serb general guilty of multiple counts of crimes against humanity and one count of genocide.

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