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Photos by Yousef Khanfar | www.yousefkhanfar.comThe tears, the rituals: a family goes on a journey and joins millions of strangers pouring into Mecca. In this moving essay, a writer evokes the beauty,…
Adnan Mahmutović
Photo by Natalya Y. on Unsplash A Bosnian Swedish writer considers how extreme nuances and barely perceptible differences, which signify no change in the core meaning of a word, still evoke conno…
March 18, 2021Jasna Đuričić, in her role as Aida Selmanagic, from Jasmila Zbanic's film, Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) A war refugee from Bosnia now living, writing, and teaching in Sweden reviews Quo…
Blaenau-Ffestiniog, UK. Cinnamon Press. 2020. 250 pages. AT THE FEET OF MOTHERS, a Qur’anic trope for paradise, seems initially unrelated to smart but naïve, one-eye…
October 17, 2019Photo by Peter Tandlund / Flickr A Bosnian refugee of war now living, teaching, and writing in Stockholm considers the Swedish Academy’s selection for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, Peter Ha…
After meeting at a short-fiction conference, Adnan Mahmutović and Lucy Durneen began talking to one another about his childhood love of comics and his efforts to preserve them during the Bosnian…- Cromer, England. Salt. 2012. ISBN 9781907773280 Whereas much exile literature foregrounds educated urbanites voicing nostalgia for lost cultures, Adnan Mahmutović portrays Bosnian villagers who renoun…
