Nadja Halilbegovich

Halilbegovich is the author of My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary

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The Memories That Sustain Me on Mother's Day

I keep replaying my favorite memory of my mother: I was 11 and we were vacationing on the Adriatic coast of Croatia, about a four-hour drive from our hometown of Sarajevo, Bosnia. After spending all...

By Nadja Halilbegovich

You Never Stop Being a Child of War

Imagine you are 12 and suddenly catapulted out of sleep by explosions that make the whole building quiver. Your mother screams and swoops you out of bed, and seconds later, you are stumbling down a...

By Nadja Halilbegovich
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