Professor Sabira Husedžinović, architectural historian and great expert in theory and practice of heritage protection, worked persistently to raise awareness of the importance of cultural-historical heritage as part of the cultural identity of all people living in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sabira Husedžinović was born on October 29, 1940. After primary and secondary school, she went to Sarajevo, where she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in 1964. After graduation, she was employed at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. She worked there for four years and then became a teacher at the Construction School (Građevinska škola).

She decided to move to Banja Luka, where she continued to work as a teacher at the Construction School. Between 1977 and 1992, Sabira Husedžinović worked at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage in Banja Luka. During this period, she was working on her master thesis “Analysis and criticism of the valorization of historical documentation on the urban development of Banja Luka until the beginning of the 20th century”. She obtained her master’s degree in 1989 at the Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in the field of protection of architectural heritage. She was dismissed from the Institute in Banja Luka in 1992, and in the political context of the war and ethnic cleansing in Banja Luka, she fled to Zagreb. She stayed there for a short time, until she finally moved to Sarajevo. In 1996, she became an adviser to the Minister of Culture and Historical heritage in the Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports. While being in Zagreb, she started to work on her doctoral dissertation “Valorization of the Islamic sacral architecture of Banja Luka with an analysis of its demolition and reconstruction throughout history”. Sabira defended her thesis at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb in 1997 at the age of 57. After obtaining her doctorate, she became a professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo where she worked until her retirement.She has one daughter born in 1973 who became a famous Bosnian fashion designer. Sabira Husedžinović died in Sarajevo in 2015, at the age of 75.