The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo is the national academy

National academy

A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the humanities. Typically the country's learned societies in...

 of Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

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History & Organization

The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo was founded on December 20, 1975 by decision of the Assembly of Kosovo

Assembly of Kosovo

The Assembly of Kosovo was originally established by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo in 2001 to provide 'provisional, democratic self-government'....

. Its first president was Esad Mekuli

Esad Mekuli

Esad Mekuli was an Albanian poet and scholar. He was the first president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo...

, who is considered to be the father of modern Albanian poetry in Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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. The academy is organized in four divisions. Those include the division of language and literature, the division of social sciences, the division of natural sciences and the division of arts.

Members

The academy has 19 regular and 6 associate members. The current president of academy is Besim Bokshi

Besim Bokshi

Besim Bokshi is an Albanian poet, linguist and philologist. Currently he is the president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.- Career :...

, while the vice-president is Hivzi Islami. Engjëll Berisha

Engjëll Berisha

Engjëll Berisha , also known as Befre, was an Albanian painter from Kosovo....

 is the general secretary of the academy. The heads of the divisions include Mehmet Kraja, Pajazit Nushi, Latif Susuri and Tahir Emra

Tahir Emra

Tahir Emra is an Albanian painter. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.Tahir Emra was born on March 10, 1938 in Gjakova, Kosovo. He attended the School of Arts of Peja. In 1966 he graduated from the Academy of Figurative Arts of Belgrade. He was a founding member Academy...

. Honorary members include personalities like Albanian-American

Albanian-American

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 Nobel prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 winner Ferid Murad

Ferid Murad

Ferid Murad is an Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is also an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.- Life :...

 and Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa , born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950...

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