In 2020, a new publication of Sjećanja [Memories] has come out regarding the
memoires of Alija Izetbegović, the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina from
1991-1996. To mark the publication, I have written the following commentary
which was published last year in Bosnian. This review of his Sjećanja was written as
a retrospective review of the receptions of his work over the past 20 years. (1)

In the work Grundphänomene des menschlichen Daseins [The Basic Phenomena of
Human Existence], German philosopher Eugen Fink (1979) argues human life on the
whole to develop and unfold within five phenomena lastingly present in manifold
and parallel forms: work, love, power, play, and death. Furthermore, Fink concluded
human life to mostly end, bend, and form mainly within these five fundamental and
overarching phenomena of human existence.

(1) The writing of this review was supported by the Alija Izetbegović Museum as well as the Islamic informative newspaper Preporod.