Emir Suljagić

Emir SULGAJIĆ is a journalist, activist and the director of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial. Suljagić holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg. His recent research focuses on the role the Bosnian Serb Assembly played in the process of socially constructing Bosniaks as ‘Turks.’ Suljagić worked as an interpreter for the UN in Srebrenica and was a correspondent for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. He has published widely for The New York Times, AlJazeera, El Pais, Die Zeit, and Oslobođenje (Liberation) among others. Suljagić teaches International Relations at the International University of Sarajevo. His memoir Postcards from the Grave (2003) is the first account of a Srebrenica survivor to be published in English and was subsequently published in eight languages.