Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, a Columbia University professor, addressed the effects of cultural violence & hate in classrooms at the #WordsMatter event in Oslo today. Columbia University Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess Ndileka_Mandela The Oslo Center Norway MFA Gjermund Saether DIRCO South Africa Muslim World League Unitas Communications

Remembering James Baldwin, born 100 years ago today in Harlem, New York. Here he is being interviewed in the 1980s documentary "The Price of the Ticket."

Teachers, librarians, and parents looking for middle grade books that will spark powerful conversations will want to pick up a copy Three Summers, an epic middle-grade memoir from author, activist, and Bosnian genocide survivor Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess: buff.ly/3YBjLDa

Happy International Cat Day! Do you have a favourite book about a cat? Books shown here are "The Travelling Cat Chronicles" by Hiro Arikawa, "The Cat I Never Named" by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, and "The Cat Who Saved Books" by Sōsuke Natsukawa.

“They didn’t care that we were unarmed. Their primary concern was that we were Muslim, and they wanted us dead.” Read Hasan Hasanović’s incredible story of survival and his experience as part of ‘The Column’. buff.ly/3wElThi

I had a wonderful day Columbia University Univ. Today for the first ever interfaith workshop hosted by the International Interfaith Research Lab at Teacher’s College (led by Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess). I learned so much, met so many interesting people & — after a troubled year — it gave me some hope.

“The Flowers of Srebrenica” by author Aidan Hehir and illustrator David Frankum is a moving, honest, yet at times humorous account of the author’s experience with Mustafa, a survivor of the Bosnian Genocide as they travel around Bosnia and Herzegovina. buff.ly/3noUwmS

EDINA ZUKANOVIĆ was killed on 24 August 1992. She was at home with her mother and her brother when their house was targeted by the #Serb forces. She was shot in the heart and died on the spot. Her brother was injured. Edina was 15 years old. #SniperAlley #BosnianGenocide

AMAR PUŠKIĆ was killed on 25 August 1992. He was in front of his building when he was killed in one of many #Serb mortar attacks. Shrapnel hit him in the neck. Many civilians were injured in the same attack. Amar was 8 years old. #SniperAlley #BosnianGenocide

Like every year, today #WeRemember our dear sister AIDA BUTUROVIĆ a 32-year-old librarian who was killed as she & her colleagues tried to rescue books from the flames. On 25 August 1992, Bosnia’s National & University Library - Vijećnica, was targeted by the #Serb forces. ❤️

NIRVANA ZELJKOVIĆ nicknamed Nina, a 12-year-old girl from Sarajevo, who was one of the last child victims of the Siege was badly wounded on 27 August 1995 but sadly she died on 2 September because of her injuries. This year she would have been 41. #SniperAlley #BosnianGenocide

"This moving and deeply personal story is framed in a way that makes the larger political, religious, and ethnic complexities accessible. Simultaneously candid and heartbreaking" - Kirkus Reviews #ThreeSummers

#Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek THREE SUMMERS: A MEMOIR OF SISTERHOOD, SUMMER CRUSHES, + GROWING UP ON THE EVE OF THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE by Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess w/ Laura L. Sullivan (Farrar/MacKids Books), which our reviewer called a "vividly told and moving memoir" hbook.com/story/review-o…

The very foundation of Islam is literacy - to read & seek knowledge. The first word of the Qur’an revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was “Iqra” which means Read. To celebrate International Literacy Day, here are beautiful Qur’anic manuscripts in museums across the world…

In July the Netherlands completed its compensatory payouts to relatives of 611 of the 8,372 victims of the Srebrenica Genocide, for DUTCHBAT's failure to protect them from Serb nationalist forces who overran the UN safe zone in July 1995. balkaninsight.com/2024/07/11/net…

Looking forward to discussing with students and faculty at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan, how storytelling can serve as a gateway to preventing hate. #ThreeSummers