Al Jazeera journalist Alma Milisic was born months before the conflict began; one of the first words she learned was ‘siege’. A personal essay by Al Jazeera journalist Alma Milisic, reflecting on 25 years since the Bosnian War ended: One of the first words I learned as a child was “opsada” – Bosnian for siege. Sarajevo had already been occupied …
“Mut ranja kar kisi ko, ke apne to aeteqaad, Jee dhaaye ke jo kaaba banaya to kya kiya?” Mir Taqi Mir “We will lose Turkey, if Istanbul is lost.” This statement by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to plague him when his Justice and Development Party lost Ankara, Istanbul and five major cities in 2019’s local elections. The first Arab …
