Kosovar Activists - Kosovar Democracy Activists, Flora Brovina, Ibrahim Rugova, Faton Bislimi, Albin Kurti, Ali Kelmendi, Ali Krasniqi (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kosovar Democracy Activists, Flora Brovina, Ibrahim Rugova, Faton Bislimi, Albin Kurti, Ali Kelmendi, Ali Krasniqi, Gazmend Pula. Excerpt: Ibrahim Rugova ) (2 December 1944 21 January 2006) was an Albanian politician who was the first President of Kosovo and of its leading political party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). During the many conflicts in Kosovo, Rugova was regarded as a moderate ethnic Albanian leader, and later by some as "Father of the Nation". Ibrahim Rugova was born on 2 December 1944 in Crnce, Istok, Yugoslavia, near the end of World War II, to a family that is a branch of the Kelmendi Albanian clan. At this time, the major part of Kosovo was unified with Albania (controlled by Mussolini's Italy since 1941, and later by the Germans since 1943). Yugoslav control was re-established towards the end of the war when the area was liberated by the Partisans who defeated Albanian collaborators. His father Uk Rugova and his paternal grandfather Rrust Rugova were summarily executed in January 1945 as Nazi collaborators. Rugova finished primary school in Istog and high school in Peja, graduating in 1967. He moved on to the newly established University of Pristina, where he was a student in the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Albanian Studies and participated in the 1968 Kosovo Protests. He graduated in 1971 and re-enrolled as a research student concentrating on literary theory. As part of his studies, he spent two years (19761977) at the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes of the University of Paris, where he studied under Roland Barthes. He received his doctorate in 1984 after delivering his thesis, The Directions and Premises of Albanian Literary Criticism, 1504-1983. Rugova was active as a journalist throughout the 1970s... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=537725