Shkëlzen Maliqi (born 26 October 1947) is a Kosovar

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

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and

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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 The Social Democratic Party of Kosovo ( sq, Partia Socialdemokrate e Kosovës, PSD) is a political party in Kosovo. It was established on 10 February 1990 by Kaqusha Jashari, and was the second political party to be established in the newly plur ...

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

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and

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, and Serbian. From the beginning of the 1980s, he has been a regular contributor to the most important media outlets in Kosovo and the former

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

. Maliqi lives in

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and heads the "

Gani Bobi Gani Bobi (Serbian Cyrillic: Гани Боби) (20 November 1943 – 17 July 1995) was an Albanian philosopher and sociologist from Kosovo. He was born in Lubenić, municipality of Peć, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. He was one of the first Al ...

" Institute for Social Studies.

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External links

Gani Bobi Official Website

Shkelzen Maliqi's essay on "Beyond the New Art of Kosovo" published in ''Ulemec''

Interview for Radio Free Europe (''in Albanian'')

"Shkelzen Maliqi" query on "''Amazon''"

"Shkelzen Maliqi" query on "''Google Books''"

"Shkelzen Maliqi" query on "''Google Scholar''"
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