Shkëlzen Maliqi is an Albanian

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 philosopher, art critic

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, political analyst and leading intellectual

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 in Kosovo

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. During the early 1990s Shkelzen was also directly involved in politics. He was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo

Social Democratic Party of Kosovo

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 and served as its first president from 1991 to 1993. He also held leading positions in civil society organizations such as the Kosovo Civil Society Foundation (1995–2000) and the Kosovo Helsinki Committee (1990–1997).

Maliqi has published several books on art

Art

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 and politics

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 in Albanian

Albanian language

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, English

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, Italian

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, Spanish

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, and Serbian

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From the beginning of 1980s, Maliqi has been a regular contributor to the most important media outlets in Kosovo and ex-Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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Maliqi lives in Pristina

Pristina

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, the capital of Kosovo. He currently heads the "Gani Bobi" Institute for Social Studies.

See also

• Gani Bobi
  Gani Bobi
  Gani Bobi was an Albanian philosopher and sociologist from Kosovo. He was born in Lubenić, municipality of Peć. Was one of the first Albanian professors of sociology and philosophy at the University of Pristina...
  
  
• Muhamedin Kullashi
  Muhamedin Kullashi
  Muhamedin Kullashi is an Albanian philosopher and a former Professor in a French University in Paris and politician. Currently he is the ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to Paris, France.-Notes:-References:...
  
  
• Fatos Lubonja
  Fatos Lubonja
  Fatos Lubonja is an Albanian writer and dissident.- Life :Fatos is the son of Todi Lubonja, who was a close associate of Enver Hoxha and head of Albanian national television until the early 1970s. In the course of Hoxha's split with the USSR in 1960, Todi Lubonja was arrested for voicing opposition...
  
  
• Wikipedia entry on 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...
  
  

External links

• Gani Bobi Official Website
• Shkelzen Maliqi's essay on "Beyond the New Art of Kosovo" published in Ulemec
• Maliqi's interview in German "Keine linke Option"
• Interview with Shkelzen Maliqi - "A Fictitious Bridge"
• Maliqi - "The future of Kosovo"
• Interview for Radio Free Europe (in Albanian)
• "Shkelzen Maliqi" query on "Amazon"
• "Shkelzen Maliqi" query on "Google Books"
• "Shkelzen Maliqi" query on "Google Scholar"