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Nehat Islami (born 1943 in Ferizaj/Uroševac, Kosovo) is a journalist from Kosovo.
Nehat Islami
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Career
Nehat Islami graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law in 1966 . He began his journalistic career in “Rilindja” the only daily newspaper of that time in Albanian language in Kosovo. The year later he moved to the RTP newsroom (Radio Television of Pristina). From 1974 to 1979 he was the Middle East newspaper correspondent in Beirut. After he returned to the capital of Kosovo-Pristina he was appointed Editor of Foreign Policy. He remained in that position until mid ’90 when “Rilindja” was banned by Milosevic’s regime. From 1999 to 2002, he was the Project Manager of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting - office in Pristina.[1] Since 2005, he directs the Office of the Press Council of Kosovo.[2]
Work
During his journalistic career Nehat Islami has interviewed prominent world personalities, such as: Mother Theresa, Yasser Arafat, the poet Jasques Prevert, the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza, the president of Iraq Talabani, the King of Jordan Hussein, etc. He is the author of over 200 TV reportages and documentaries and thousands of press reportages and articles from Kosovo and abroad.
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Categories:- 1943 births
- Living people
- Kosovo Albanians
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