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Dauti Dauti was born in 1960 in
Kokaj Kokaj ( sq, Kokaj ) ( sr-Cyrl, Кокицe-Инатовце/''Kokaj-Inatoc'') is a village in the District of Gjilan, Gjilan district of Kosovo. Climate The average temperature is -2 °C. Spring and autumn are cool and rainy, and the summer ...
, near
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, in
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. He graduated from the
University of Pristina The University of Pristina ( sq, Universiteti i Prishtinës) is a public university located in Pristina, Kosovo. It is the institution that emerged after the disestablishment of the University of Pristina (1969–99) as a result of the K ...
Faculty of Law. He continued post-graduate studies at the
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(former Thames Valley University) and was awarded a PhD from the University of Leeds School of History, on thesis: The British Foreign Policy and the Albanian Question 1876–1914. After graduation from law school, he started his career as a journalist. His first articles were published in Bota e Re (New World) a student newspaper published by the University of Pristina. He went on to write for weekly magazine Zëri]and from 1994 until 1999 he was a London-based correspondent of the magazine. From 1999 to 2001 he worked for the
Institute for War and Peace Reporting The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is an independent nonprofit organization that claims to train and provide publishing opportunities for professional and citizen journalists. History IWPR was founded in 1991 under the name Yugofax. ...
in London as a journalist and editor. He established their Pristina office in 1999. In 2000 he was engaged in establishing the Association of Journalists of Kosovo and served as its general secretary until 2002. From 2000 to 2002 he was also an independent Member of the Central election Committee, a committee of the
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, which organised and oversaw the work of the first and free elections in Kosovo. During 2002 he embarked on a research program at the
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in Dayton, Ohio. As an international fellow at Kettering he researched subjects in the fields of media and democracy, politics and traditional deliberation among the Albanians. Within this program he has published "Building an Independent Media in Kosovo" (English and Albanian) and "Assemblies and Ancient Deliberation according to Code of Lek Dukagjinit" (English and Chinese). During 2005 he worked as a media adviser and government spokesman under Prime Minister
Bajram Kosumi Bajram Kosumi (born 20 March 1960, in Kosova, Kamenica , is a Kosovar politician who served as the third prime minister of Kosovo for nearly one year. He was nominated by Kosovan President Ibrahim Rugova and elected Prime Minister by the Kosovo ...
. From 2007 to 2010 he worked as a consultant for Albania and Kosovo in the media office of the International Organisation for Migration in London. During these years he continued working as a freelance journalist and independent media consultant. He has also debated the case of Kosovo and other Balkan issues in different media and international forums. In 1996/7 Dauti received his master's degree in European Studies from The University of West London - former Thames Valley University. In 2017 Dauti got his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds - School of History. The title of his Ph.D. thesis was "Britain, the Albanian Question and the Demise of the Ottoman Empire 1876-1914". His area of academic interest and research is British foreign policy and the Balkans during the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.


Notable works

Dauti is author of these books: #. (Anglo-Albanian reflections) #. (The war for Trepça) #. (European Union – from an idea to reality) #. (Building an Independent Media in Kosovo) #. ''Assemblies and ancient deliberation according to code of Leke Dukagjini'' #. , 1877–1880 (The Albanian question inside the British diplomacy, 1877-1880)


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New book about 19th century Albanian history by Daut DautiAncient Public Deliberation and Assembly in the Code of Lekë Dukagjini, Daut Dauti
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dauti, Daut 1960 births Living people People from Gjilan Kosovan non-fiction writers Kosovan journalists Kosovan screenwriters Kosovo Albanians Albanian-language writers University of Pristina alumni Alumni of the University of West London 20th-century Albanian writers