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Bosnia & Herzegovina: “Graffiti Street”

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 @ 00:29 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Bosnia Herzegovina
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Film, History, Music, War & Conflict, International Relations, Language

Bosnia Blog writes about a documentary on the “meeting of [Sarajevo] musicians after a separation caused by war.”

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