Sarajevo - A black cauldron

History does not repeat itself but it sure rhymes 🇧🇦☪🇵🇸

Umihana Čuvidina – Bosnia’s First Poetess and the Woman Who Loved Forever 🇧🇦⚜

In the early 19th century, Sarajevo witnessed a love story so powerful that it left a mark on Bosnian literature and collective memory. Umihana Čuvidina, born around 1794 in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Hrid, is remembered as the first known Bosnian Muslim poetess, but also as a woman whose life was shaped by unwavering love and immense loss.

In 1813, her fiancé, Čamdži Mujo, a standard-bearer in the Bosnian army, was killed in the battle near Loznica during the uprising against Serbian rebels. When Umihana received the news that autumn, she made a decision that would define the rest of her life—she would never marry, choosing instead to mourn her beloved and immortalize him through poetry.

Her most famous poem, “Sarajevans Go to War Against Serbia” (Sarajlije iđu na vojsku protiv Srbije), is an epic of 79 verses written in Bosnian using the Arabic noscript. This poem not only captured a historical moment but also stood as a quiet tribute to her fallen fiancé—Mujo’s name never appears, but his absence is powerfully felt in the final verses, when the warriors return and he is missing.

Umihana’s love was so deep, so melancholic, that she gave herself the name Sevda—a reflection of sevdah, the untranslatable word that captures the essence of longing, love, and soulful sorrow in Bosnian culture. In one of her poems, she describes three years of mourning: one year without washing her face, one without smiling, and one without braiding her hair. In the fourth, she cuts her hair and sends it to her uncle, a public declaration that she had given up all hope of love or joy in this life.

She never appears in court records. She never married, never founded an endowment, never left a will, and didn’t die a martyr—all the conditions required for official recognition. Yet, her memory endured.

Her poems, passed down orally, became part of the city’s folklore. In old Sarajevo, people would say, “He loves like Sevda,” a tribute to the woman who lived and died for love. Though many of her poems were later considered anonymous folk songs, researchers agree that at least three can be confidently attributed to her:

Sarajlije iđu na vojsku protiv Srbije

Pogibija aga Sarajlija pod Loznicom 1813

Čamdži Mujo i lijepa Uma

Her story is both heartbreaking and inspiring. In an era where women were expected to move on, remarry, and forget, Umihana defied all conventions. She turned personal grief into literary legacy, and from her sorrow, Bosnia gained its first female poetic voice.

Even today, the exact place of her grave remains unknown, likely unmarked, as was common for unmarried, poor women at the time. But her true monument was built from words, not stone.

As Bosnian poetess Džemila Hanumica Zekić wrote in her tribute poem to Umihana:

No one knows your grave, beautiful Umihana,
So no monument can be raised to you,
To show you were a poetess,
In old, hard, wartime days,
When even girls knew of bloody knives.

Umihana Čuvidina lives on—in verses, in songs, in the soul of Sarajevo.

Bosnia Studio Ghibli version ❤️

Note: I am well aware that real artists hate this and I don't support it but you know- in case the AI take over I need some clout

Bosnian father is carrying his baby while crossing the infamous sniper alley in Sarajevo during the Siege

The Balkans have gone too far, Erdoğan launch the nukes 😭😂

Top 10 reasons why Yugoslavia should not return

Muezzins from Turkey recite the Adhan for the Noon prayer in the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque 🇧🇦❤🇹🇷

Note: We just need an Albanian Imam in order to get the team back together 😁

🇧🇦🇹🇷🇵🇸 I have to say I am very proud of my Turkish brothers and sisters who boycotted these western companies/corporations, I really am. It's good for the Palestinians and it's good for the Turks themselves because you don't want to have these western wolves rummaging around your country, because they are vicious and will kill their hosts for profit. Some of my subscribers might be a little confused by these posts because sometimes they aren't really centred around Bosnia or Bosniaks, but you have to understand that we are Muslims, and if you don't understand Muslims, well then you'll never understand us.

Bonds are upheld, they are not broken. Palestine means a lot to us — not for some humanist reasons, this is not a humanitarian issue for us, it's a Muslim issue, and Bosniaks have fought against that wretched American settler colony since 1948. We see ourselves in the Palestinians, and despite our unique forms of cynicism and fatigue about the world, we marched out in huge numbers for them. We don't even protest that much for ourselves, and we are not a culture that protests. We understand that protesting doesn't have a direct impact on the situation, but it's good to know where your collective heart is — that it's alive, that it isn't dead. If they are happy, then we are happy. If they are a little bit more free, then we are a lot bit more free, and they inspire us, they do.

🇧🇦🤝🇸🇦 The 21st regular session of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina was held today.
The Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina made decisions regarding an agreement between the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia concerning the mutual exemption from the requirement to obtain a short-term visa for holders of diplomatic, special, and official passports.

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(This agreement does not apply to citizens holding ordinary passports and is not related to any exemption that allows them to enter Bosnia. It does not ennoscript them to enter Bosnia.)

I think one of the greatest forms of government that emerged from the Western world is democracy. It's an incredibly smart way of governing pushed forward by the ruling classes; it's genius when one thinks about it. The lowest parts of society, which have no control over said society, have been made to feel responsible for the decisions made by those in power, who are under no responsibility. The voting machines have been rigged, the journalists and the politicians are both working for those with the most money, and we are foolishly outraged because we have been told that we, the powerless, are the ones in power, and we scream corruption — while in fact, the system is not corrupt; it works just like the rulers intended it to work. It's an oligarchy with Instagram filters.

🇧🇦 Počitelj is a historic village located on the left bank of the Neretva River, south of Mostar, in the municipality of Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is known for its unique architecture that reflects a blend of medieval and Ottoman influences.

The first written mention of Počitelj dates from the period between 1444 and 1448, although it is believed that the settlement was founded earlier, likely in 1383 under the rule of the Bosnian King Tvrtko I.
Throughout its history, Počitelj held significant strategic importance, especially during Ottoman rule after 1471, when it was further fortified and developed.

Today, Počitelj is one of the best-preserved examples of Ottoman architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Its old town, enclosed by walls, includes landmarks such as the Sahat-kula (Clock Tower), the Šišman Ibrahim Pasha Mosque, and a traditional bathhouse (hamam).
Due to its cultural and historical value, Počitelj has been placed on UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.

Safvet-beg Bašagić ⚜

On this day, April 9, 1934, in Sarajevo,
Safvet-beg Bašagić passed away – the initiator of the Bosniak national awakening, a prominent poet, intellectual, translator, historian, and politician.

Safvet-beg Bašagić was born on May 6, 1870, in Nevesinje. He attended primary school in Mostar and Konjic. In 1882, he moved to Sarajevo, where he completed a ruždija (Ottoman secondary school), and later graduated from high school in 1895. From 1895 to 1899, he studied Oriental languages – Arabic and Persian – at the University of Vienna.

For a time, he worked as a professor at the Sarajevo Velika gimnazija (First Gymnasium), and in 1903, he founded the societies “Gajret,” “El-Kamer,” and “Muslimanski klub.” In 1907, he launched the newspaper Ogledalo (“The Mirror”), and a year later he returned to Vienna to prepare a doctorate in Oriental languages and the history of Islam.

In 1910, he was elected as a representative in the Bosnian Parliament (Sabor), and immediately after the death of Ali-beg Firdus, he was appointed President of the Parliament.

After the war, from 1919, he worked as a curator at the National Museum in Sarajevo until 1927, when he retired. He began writing poetry while still a student at the Sarajevo high school. During his studies in Vienna, he prepared his first poetry collection (Trofanda iz hercegovačke dubrave) for publication, and at that time also wrote his first scholarly works and began collecting material for the history of Bosnia.

On May 1, 1900, together with Edhem Mulabdić and Osman Nuri Hadžić, he launched the newspaper Behar.

🇧🇦🇵🇸 Sarajevo Safari, look it up, wealthy and powerful people in the West paid Serb forces handsomely in order to hunt and murder civilians in Sarajevo, in Europe, in the 21st century. That's the ruling class of people that govern the West, that's the master class. They don't need Jews to pay them to support the genocide in Gaza, they are psychopaths to begin with.

You also have genocide tourism in Gaza: they pay to watch the bombs drop from a distance.

This process of redrawing borders and instigating tensions and conflicts that serve the powerful continues to this day.

Unfortunately, some Muslims, in reaction to the creation of these fictitious nation-states, have also emulated this behaviour. However, unlike their non-Muslim counterparts, it does not benefit them. Figures from their pre-Islamic history are elevated to the stars as confirmation of their national identities; grudges are formed over events that transpired centuries ago, with no clear focus on the present or future—only distorted maps and narratives of the past. Another pawn on the chessboard, with only the shahadah differentiating it from the others. A larger sense of identity and connection is needed to escape this quagmire. (Part 2)

🇩🇪🇧🇦 New German Government to Halve Immigration from the Western Balkans

The new German government, formed by CDU/CSU and SPD, has reached a coalition agreement that significantly tightens migration policy. One of the key changes is the halving of the number of immigrants allowed from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other Western Balkan countries based on employment contracts.

Since 2016, workers from the Western Balkans have been able to immigrate to Germany for work purposes without formal qualifications—only a job offer from a German employer was required. The previous government doubled the annual quota to 50,000 work permits, but the new government has reduced it to 25,000.

The amended “Western Balkans Regulation” will now allow only 25,000 people per year to migrate to Germany under this route.

The agreement also mentions continued support for Western Balkan countries on their path to EU membership.

Note: The death of the German Vampire Demography that has been sucking out the young blood of Bosnia.