Muhamet Hamiti is a Kosovar

Kosovo

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 politician and presidential adviser to Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu

Fatmir Sejdiu

Fatmir Sejdiu is a politician from Kosovo. He was the leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo and was the first President of the Republic of Kosovo.-Early life and education:...

. Currently he is ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo

Republic of Kosovo

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 to London

London

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 and non-resident Ambassador to New Zealand

New Zealand

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Muhamet Hamiti was born in Dumnicë village of Podujevo

Podujevo

Podujevo or Podujeva is a town and municipality located in the district of Pristina of north-eastern Kosovo.Podujevo is situated in a strategic position due to a regional motorway and railroad passing through it which links surrounding regions. Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, is located some to...

 municipality, in Kosovo, in 1964. He earned his BA in English language and literature at the University of Pristina in 1987; earned his MA in English literature

English literature

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 at the Zagreb University (in Croatia

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) in 1990, and his PhD in English literature at the University of Pristina in 2006 with a thesis on the prose ficition of James Joyce

James Joyce

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 and Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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In the 1990s, Hamiti was an independent scholar at the University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

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 and at Birkbeck College

Birkbeck, University of London

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, University of London

University of London

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, respectively, pursuing research in and studies of literature.

Muhamet Hamiti taught English literature at the University of Pristina from 1989 until 2008. He was distinguished as a hard-working professor. He is author of a monograph book on English literature, a range of literary essays, as well as literary translations from and into English.

From 1991 through 1999 he worked at the Kosovo Information Center (KIC) – Qendra për Informim e Kosovës, QIK – as editor-in-chief for the English service. He edited and translated into English a number of publications that KIC undertook during those years of the Kosovar's struggle for freedom and independence.

Muhamet Hamiti is a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo

Democratic League of Kosovo

The Democratic League of Kosovo is the second largest political party in Kosovo. It is a conservative and liberal conservative party; the main right-wing party in Kosovo....

 (LDK) since 1990, and a member of LDK's executive body since 2002.

Muhamet Hamiti was a media advisor and spokesman to the President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova

Ibrahim Rugova

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, from mid-2002 through January 2006, when he died of cancer.

In February 2006, Muhamet Hamiti was appointed a senior political advisor to Rugova's successor to the Presidency of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu.

He is currently the Ambassador to Britain and New Zealand.