War and Recovery: One Initiative to Help Bosnia’s Libraries Rebuild
War and Recovery: One Initiative to Help Bosnia’s Libraries Rebuild

Summary/Abstract: I manage large photograph collections at Harvard, the purview of which is the Islamic world and the Middle East. Still, the Balkans in general and Bosnia in particular play a role in my work due to their participation in the Ottoman tradition. The focus of my talk is only obliquely related to the broader themes of this conference since I am here, in the main, to describe the Bosnia Library Project, born in early 1996 in the wake of the Dayton Accords, which, however flawed, made this effort possible.

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