Kosovo television icon Shaban Arifaj dies

Lorik Arifaj reporter for Kosovo Radio Television has reported that his father, Shaban Arifaj, has died today, at the age of 69, who has been an icon of Kosovo television for years.

Dear friends,

Deeply in pain, we inform you that today at 69 years of age our father, Shaban Arifaj. For details about the funeral, we announce to you while the body is in Skopje. We are grateful for the support messages you've given us all the time. We tried our best, but God wanted this angel next door. We'll love you as long as we can breathe. PU He wrote Lorik Arifaj.

Shaban Arifay was born on May 6, 1952, in Istog, where he had completed primary and secondary schooling.

He studied Albanian language and literature at the UP School of Philological. He had finished his higher studies of journalism as well as post-university studies from mass communications and had won the Master's (Msc) title of science in mass communication and journalism.

In 1974, Shaban Arifaj starts working at Pristina Radio Television as a spy, journalist, and editor. After the RTP was closed by the Serbian regime, he writes about newspapers and magazines published in Pristina as “Click”, “Kosovo”, “Word”, “Suni”, etc. Meanwhile, he started reporting to Radio Zagreb from Pristina and Brussels, where he had opened radio station “KosovoRadio 148x10>, where he carried out the editor-in-chief's work by simultaneously reporting on key events from Brussels. He has also been working as Kosovo radio correspondent “Voice” in Copenhagen Canal (Denmark) and Sweden's public radio. Shaban Arifaj has reported various events from Vienna, Washington, Montreal, Otawa, Brussels and so on. As of 1992-1997, meanwhile, was the responsible editor at the Albanian Radio Television (RTSH), Kosovo's editorial.

By 1999, he had been working as editor and editor responsible for 10 years on Kosovo Radio Television (RTK). In addition to working in RTK and RTSH, he had attended a series of workshops for continued professional promotions, such as Virginia, the US, Montreal, Canada, Thessaloniki, Greece and so on. At the Kosovo Media Institute, he had completed training by taking the title of the coach of journalism.

In addition to journalism, where reports had been carried out, chronics, interviews etc., he had also written various publicistic texts, then stories, dramas, novels such as “>Eclipsis at midday”, “Dialog with neighbour”, “The accordion at minimum”, “Kaldu”, Kosovo at the Balkan”, and the scientific book <x10G>, audio and X-ray image at radio>> <x).