“was feather fighter” Rexhep Qosja is remembered by A SHAKU and institutional leaders

Life and academic work by Rexhep Crushing was highly praised at this meeting.

Justina Shiroka Pula, chairman of the Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts, has named the late Qosja a powerful voice of critical and advocate of truth.

Qos was more than a writer. He was an institution in itself, a powerful voice of critical reason, and a firm advocate of truth. His loss is not just the loss of our literature and culture. It contains a major national loss, an emptiness affecting the intellectual conscience of all Albanians wherever they are located.

His multidimensional activity as scholar, writer, literary critic and public thinker represents significant achievements of contemporary Albanian culture. He built a vast and stable opposition that not only enriched our scientific and literary fund but also contributed to the inspiration of our national consciousness in crucial historical periods.

His legacy will remain a precious guide, a wealth of thought, creativity, and integrity that will continue to inspire generations to come. His work will continue to be like an important reference to knowledge and as an inspiration to scholars, creators, and all who believe in the power of free thought.

Qosja Academy fittingly epitomized the engaged intellectual figure, devoted to the truth and steadfast in defending the fundamental values of society. He always remained consistent in his opinion, witnessing high civil integrity and civil courage even under circumstances when the free word required sacrifice”, Shiroka Pula said.

While Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti for Qhurja said he did not fear the controversy and that he was a feather fighter who became a spokesman for the banned people.

“It was singled out as literary, essayist and public intellectual critic, contributing profoundly to analysis of national identity, history and development of Albanian literature.

It consistently defended the importance of culture as the basis of national consciousness and as an instrument for social emancipation, affecting the intellectual formation of entire generations in Albanian space. Rexhep Qosja was the model of the public intellectual. His scientific work was inseparable by commitment to national identity, Kosovo citizenship and the Albanian union.

His research on the reborns, especially the work Great Porosia dedicated to our national poet Naim Frasher, or the Studies in Asdren and others, greatly contributed to the national formation of Albanians under the former Yugoslavia. Studies by Rexhep Qruja and his colleagues for language, literature, Albanian history, folklore prepared two generations of Albanians for political and social confrontation that would come in the 1980s and later 1990s for the protection of national rights and dignity.

When the breakup of Yugoslavia began and oppression on Albanians increased, Rexhep Qosja became the most prominent academic voice of the Albanian intellectual. He denounced the Yugoslav and Serbian repression, the lies and propaganda of those Serbian intellectuals who would write and support the notorious Serbian Academy memorandum in 1986, and prepare the grounds for genocides Serbia would undertake in the 1990s.

He became the spokesman for the banned people, as one of his many works was entitled, a summary of his controversy with the Yugoslav intellectuals of the day. Professor Rexhep Qosya inspired generations of students to hold to the justice and justice of the 1981 student protests that became popular demonstrations, especially when their wave seemed to fall.

In 1985, he reconfirmed within that system itself -- that is, at the Congress of the League of Writers of Yugoslavia in Novi Sad in April 1985 -- the printing exercised by the Serbian-Yugoslav regime towards Albanians. There he spoke to the participants in their own language, as he said: "Not out of fear that they might call him an autocephas, but in order for all to understand, for in their own language he would reveal the Albanian being and the condition of her body and soul.

It exposed the process of differentiation exercised by the League of Communists with the help of secret services and violence devices. Among the 14 points of what it means to be Albanian intellectual in Kosovo, he emphasises that this means to fear the word "defence," as well as Middleern intellectuals feared the word "Inquisition."

The queen was not afraid of the controversy. He was a feather fighter, a hardworking articulator of ideas, and a persistent belief in his own. He wrote and talked about political developments on Albanian lands, both of peaceful resistance in Kosovo, as well as democratic developments in Albania and Macedonia. He argued that the democratic rebirth of Albanians after the collapse of the communist regimes and the breakup of Yugoslavia was full of points with our National Renaissance, and that now, as then, both should be targeted as the right solution of the Albanian issue, as well as our orientation from Western civilisation.”, Kurti said.

Anila Hoda a scientific secretary at Albania's Academy of Science and Arts, said Rexhep Qosja was a rare Erudite, an extraordinary personality of nationwide culture, committed researcher and well-known writer.

“By the name of the chairmanship of the Academy of Sciences, its assembly and the entire scientific community in Albania, I have the honour and at the same time with deep pain to convey our condolences for the life of academic Rexhep Qosja. One of the most prominent figures of Albanian scientific, literary and national thought.

Academyist Rexhep Qosja was a rare Erudite, an extraordinary personality of all Albanian culture, committed scholar and well-known writer. His life and work are inextricably linked to the history of the Albanian world's scientific, literary and political thought. For over half a century, it was a powerful voice in intellectual and public life, becoming one of the most representative figures of our national consciousness. He is widely known as one of the strongest voices in Albanian public debates by courageously and responsiblely addressing the fundamental issues of national identity, history, culture and political developments in Kosovo and Albania.

His civic and homeland commitment to democracy, the rule of law and interAlbanian relations was expressed through a broad study and publicistic activity. As director of the Albanological Institute of Pristina, Professor Rexhep Qosja contributed significantly to the development of albanology and to the article on ideas of freedom, independence and cultural identity. At the same time, professor at the University of Pristina and member of the Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts, he was singled out over decades as one of the most important researchers in the history of Albanian literature and modern criticism, making a valuable contribution to academic life and the development of scientific research.

Also important is its literary creativity, which testifies to a novelist, essayist with deep artistic sensitivity and modern vision, where national and social themes are dealt with in a multidimensional way. His commitment to the national issue and to Kosovo's international affirmation is unprecedented. Attending the Rambouillet conference as a member of the Albanian delegation, as well as its role in arguing and representation with Albanian positions at a crucial historical moment testify to its direct contribution to the processes that defined further development and developments for Kosovo's freedom and independence.

In recognition of this colossal contribution, the Albanian Academy of Sciences has had the honour of electing its foreign members as a sign of gratitude for its role in developing science, knowledge and culture in Albania. So in these moments of pain and irreplaceable loss, we share the pain with his family, with colleagues and the entire academic-cultural community in Kosovo and beyond.

The memory, work and contribution of academic Rexhep Qosja will remain permanent in the Albanian culture and science fund and in the collective conscience of our nation”, said Hoda, EO, broadcasts Periscope