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Harun

@harunb.bsky.social
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Raised between SJJ and DTW. Balkans, Ottomans, and deadpan humor. History Ph.D. via Columbia. Recovering academic. Twitter muhadžir.

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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 15h
The Bosnian national team is this close to fielding a starting 11 made up entirely of native German speakers.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 16h
It was time, but still sad to see Džeko go. Bosnia was lucky that its GOAT was such a class act on and off the pitch.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Maşallah.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’ve always been partial to the Bosnian supra-confessional “May the earth spit out his bones.”
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adnito @a-d-n.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/10/f...
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adnito @a-d-n.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 07/07/2026
Bluesky this morning:
Tintin and Snowy in a parade where everyone is cheering. (Still from Tintin in America)
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Yeah, Platner needs to go.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Well, I suppose it is on brand for us to inadvertently trigger a global crisis.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
FTR, I don't think Balogun was trying to injure. But the contact wasn't some random act of God either; it was the foreseeable result of a player wound up and throwing himself into high-risk challenges w/out enough body control. That is a red-cardable offense, esp when one’s leg is trapped & exposed.
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Sasha/Cielo Hemon @sashahemon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Not that there was ever a chance of my supporting the US team, but this seals it in perpetuity. Vive la Belgique!
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I’m old enough to remember a few hours ago when all the Americans who started following the sport in June were convinced the refs had been bought off by the big Bosnia lobby 🙃
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I still think VAR and the use of technology in the game is a net positive, but having a ball brushing a player's hair count as a deflection is a bit much.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Shame. The first goal was sloppy and the second entirely avoidable as well. But a deserved win by the U.S. all the same.
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adnito @a-d-n.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
England, Belgium, USA won The most evil day in football history
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Starting lineups are out for USA-BiH. Barbarez literally took out everyone shorter than 180 cm (5’11). The average height for this Bosnian starting XI is 189 cm (6’2.5).
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
discourse NUKE just dropped
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
h/t @a-d-n.bsky.social from the other place.
Satirical football illustration modeled on the 1914 Sarajevo assassination, with the Austria national team's goalkeeper in the role of Franz Ferdinand, other Austrian footballers surrounding the carriage, and Argentina's Lionel Messi pointing a pistol in the role of the assassin.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Blows so crushing they had to go back and try to do it again 2 years later.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
MY KEEPER CROAT MY GOALSCORER SERB MY STRIKER BOSNIAK BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN 4
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Michigan - Senate Polling: Initial Ballot: 🔵 El-Sayed: 46% 🔴 Rogers: 41% Informed Ballot: 🔵 El-Sayed: 51% 🔴 Rogers: 41% - Tulchin Research - (Pro-El-Sayed Commissioner)
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Star Wars: Kylo Ren Screams 'MORE!!!'
ALT: Star Wars: Kylo Ren Screams 'MORE!!!'
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Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'm sure everyone's heard about the Bosnian tattoos by now. I explored the story for the @newlinesmag.bsky.social, and if you’re curious about Ottoman Bosnia, Catholic women, and the stakes of turning complicated histories into myths, take a look: newlinesmag.com/essays/the-o...
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Today I learned that BCS “Mangup” and the Palestinian Nakba share the same root.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Just to be clear about what @jewishinsider.com is doing here: They are smearing Dr. Hamawy with terrorism insinuations because in 1994 he provided humanitarian aid in Bosnia, during the ethnic cleansing of Bosniak Muslims, with a group that, at the time, was praised by the Clinton administration.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
What this actually means is he travelled to Bosnia as a medical student in 1994 to provide medical aid with a group that was praised for their humanitarian relief efforts in 1994 by a Presidential envoy of Bill Clinton and was only designated financially linked to terrorists by the US in 2002.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
this continues to be the dumbest point, because it's basically 'yes, this is genocide, but what about what people who don't know anything about genocide think genocide has to be?'
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Teuta Skenderi @teutas.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is Inea Bushnaq, a folklorist, translator and oral historian. Part of her family comes from Bosnians who settled in places like Tulkarm and Caesarea in 1880s. h/t @meznaqato.bsky.social
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edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Brothers with Baggage: Eight Chapters on the Austro-Hungarian Civilizing Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina" is out, including an essay of mine (in Czech) on "Colonial ambivalence: On foreigners and expertise in Habsburg Bosnia" — plus many more interesting essays here: avu.cz/publikace/br...
avu.cz
Bratři s kufry. Osm kapitol o rakousko-uherské civilizační misi v Bosně a Hercegovině (1878–1918) - avu
Web Akademie výtvarných umění.
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I will give an online lecture "Wars, Nations, and States: Rethinking State Formation in the Balkans" at UCLA on 19th May 2026. Join us via zoom: www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/1...
international.ucla.edu
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies fosters interdisciplinary research and public engagement on the Middle East and North Africa, promoting academic events, language training, and educational pro...
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"Both Bosnia and Palestine have shown throughout their history how unacceptable spaces of common life are to policies that thrive on division, ethnic homogenization, and dehumanization of the other. That is why solidarity has emerged from collective experience…" www.odgovor.ba/article/pogl...
odgovor.ba
Dodvoravanje krvnicima neće spasiti Bosnu i Hercegovinu
Republika Bosna i Hercegovina priznala je Državu Palestinu 27. maja 1992. godine, u trenutku kada je i sama prolazila kroz međunarodno priznanje i početak agresije. Međutim, podrška Palestini i palest...
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is an interesting piece on the use and abuse of analytics in English football in its own right, but I also find it amusing that Balkan football culture tends toward the exact opposite problem: “He can pass.” “But can he run?” “We’ll deal with that later.”
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
One of the strangest and most disturbing moments during Orban’s long tenure was the period in 2018 during which he was repeatedly photographed - including during a meeting with Italy’s Meloni - with an enormous ethnic map of Bosnia. This coincided with a sharp uptick in his government’s support…
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Get ready to be inspired!”
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I wonder what he’ll do with the ethnic map of Bosnia that he had up in his office. Maybe he can hang up in his living room at home now.
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
In Serbian, we don't say "he made a stupid decision," we say "he cut off his dick to spite the village"
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Random thought from the past few days: Bosnians sure do love their songs about flowers.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
That’s a Mike Tyson reference. youtu.be/25tP7Nn0mQY?...
youtu.be
Mike Tyson: Assalam alaikum, Praise be to Allah! ❤️
YouTube video by FIGHTCLUB
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Ok, last one from me: “Džeko and Tito after the Fall of Italy”
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In all honesty though, we probably did them a favor. They urgently need a Calcio Tanzimat and maybe this will actually force them into one.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Hot take: if Edin Džeko had been Brazilian, they’d have another World Cup by now.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Bosnia just beat Italy to qualify for the World Cup. Unbelievable.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Reminds me of that evergreen Bosnian curse: “May your house be on CNN.”
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Sarajevo’s Indexi. Also the authors of Yugoslavia’s first acid trip song around this time.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
You’re laughing. Serbia invested so much money in this man and you’re laughing.
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Harun @harunb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The guitar riff at the end tells me they did their research on us.
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