The rector who wouldn’t give up on the future
Remembering Ejup Statovci — jurist, professor, visionary.
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A career in music may perhaps have offered Statovci more glory or prestige, but he didn’t care about any of that.
Images from Statovci’s personal copy of Përparimi journal.
Statovci meticulously updated his own published works.
Statovci meticulously updated his own published works.
Statovci meticulously updated his own published works.
“It wasn’t like today. It was to accept the risk of the time for the interest of the students and the nation.”
Abdulla Aliu, Statovci's former colleague“For now, the first urgent task is to put the university on its feet.”
After each stint in prison he became even more determined to share the university’s plight with his colleagues around the world.
This included their journeys to and from work, which by now meant a makeshift office in a salt warehouse.
“The youth is invited to lead the future of humanity. The rest of us adults — need to think deeply about ourselves and our actions.”
“In the October 1 protest, the rector was in the front row with us.”
Mihane Salihu-Bala, former Independent Student Union member
Tringë Sokoli
Tringë Sokoli is a journalist and former editor at K2.0 (2019-21). For her bachelor’s degree she studied journalism at the University of Prishtina, and for her master’s she studied public policy and administration at the University of Potsdam in Germany.
This story was originally written in English.