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After hearing of the decimation of many of Bosnia-Herzegovina's libraries during the nation's civil war, two Harvard employees decided they wanted to help...
During a fall 1994 visit, Enes Kujindzic, the director of Bosnia's national library, caught the ear of Andras J. Riedlmayer, a bibliographer in Islamic art and architecture in the University's Fine Arts Library, and Jeffrey B. Spurr, Islamic art cataloguer in the Aga Khan Program. They then began to help him spread the news of the libraries' plight...
Later this month, the effort Riedlmayer and Spurr began will culminate in a Sabre Foundation project, spearheaded by Harvard, which will ship 10,000 books to Bosnia to assist in the replenishing of the war-torn region's libraries...
...book donation, which the organizers describe as part as a crucial step for "a free and democratic Bosnia," is part of a program which combines some of the leading schools' resources with Sabre's experience bringing books to former Eastern bloc countries...
...inhabitants of Bosnia, the Dayton process is fundamentally flawed and a cause for dejection. "The elections won't change anything. The parties in power will win again," says Biljana, a Serb living in Doboj. The Muslim wife of Esad, Kujundzic's victim, also sees little gain from this Saturday's exercise. "For four years we have begged for shelter and dug up other people's potatoes. We want to go home," says Asmira, 36. "If we can't, we might as well go back...