OLSI JAZEXHI

OLSI JAZEXHI

Curriculum Vitae



Olsi Jazexhi is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is a graduate of Human Sciences in Mass Communication, and has a master degree in History and Civilization from the International Islamic University Malaysia. Born in Tirana in 1977, he finished his primary education at the same city.

In 1996 he pursued his bachelor in Mass Communication in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After completing the bachelor in 2000, he continued his master degree in History & Civilization at the same University. His master thesis was dedicated to the Ottoman Bushatli Pashalik of Shkodra, in Northern Albania from 1757 - 1831.

During his 6 years of stay in Malaysia, he worked for a number of Malaysian companies, and taught history at IIC College, in Kuala Lumpur.
After returning in Albania in June 2002 he started writing for local newspapers and magazines. His articles are related mainly to the history of the Ottoman Empire, Albania, Islam and Cultural encounters of Islam with the West. He has taught medieval and ancient history at VKT Educational Institute in Tirana.

Since 2004 he directed the communitarian organization Jehona Study Center based in Tirana, where he published the magazine IMPAKT ndėrkombėtar and different books. At present he is pursuing his PhD research at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.












OLSI JAZEXHI

Department of History and Civilization,

The European University Institute, Via Boccaccio 121,

50133 Firenze, Italy

E-mail: olsi@rocketmail.com

Tel: 00393201835447



PHD RESEARCHER,

HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION

European University Institute, Florence, Italy, September 2006 - present

Thesis topic: The Encounters of Islam with Modernity in the 20th Century Albania


MASTER OF HUMAN SCIENCES,

HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION

International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia, October 2000 - June 2002

Major: History and Civilization

Thesis topic: The Albanian Pashalik of Shkodra under Bushatlis 1757 - 1831.

GRADUATE OF MASS COMMUNICATION

International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia, September 1996 - October 2000

Major: Mass Communication



SUMMER COURSES / PROGRAMMES PARTICIPATION

“The inter-religious relations in Germany”, Goethe Institute, July 2005, Germany
“Migration in the History of Europe”, Academia of European History, European University Institute, July 2005, Firence, Italy
“Empires in the History of Europe”, Olympic Village, Peleponessus, Greece, July 2004



CERTIFICATE OF ENGLISH PROFICIENCY

International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia, September 1996 - September 1997

(Equivalent of TOEFL 550 or IETLS 6.0)


A SELECTION OF SOME PUBLISHED ACADEMIC ARTICLES

The Bektashi Tarikah of Dervishes, Colloque International « soufisme-culture-musique », le Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques. Algiers, September 2007

Mbi identitetin islamik tė Lidhjes sė Prizrenit, Konf e Bashkesise Islame te Kosoves, Qershor 2007, Prizren, Kosova

Zanafilla e komuniteteve muslimane nė Shqipėri, Takvimi, BIK, 2006, Prishtina, Kosova
Kryengritja Popullore Shqiptare e 1912 - 1915, kundėr kolonializmit evropjan, Pėrmbledhje Punimesh, May 2004, Shkup, Macedonia

Urdheri Bektashian i Dervisheve, Keshilla, December 2004, Tirana

Kara Mahmud Pashė Bushati, Bualli i Shkodrės, “Univers”, volume IV - 2003, Tirana, Albania

Another Approach Towards Certain 'exported' myths on Albanian historiography between Occident and Islam, “Africana”, Rivista di Studi Extraeuropei, vol VIII 2002, Pisa, Italy

Rroli i Aleancės Panortodokse Ballkanike nė Copėtimin e Shqipėrisė post-Osmane, Studime Orientale, nr. 2, Prishtina 2002, Kosova


FREELANCE WRITER

September 2002 - present RIMEKEMBJA

September 2002 - present: BESA (in Kosova)

September 2002 - January 2004: TEMA Newspaper


KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES
Fluent in English and Albanian also writing, reading and speaking Italian, Greek, Arabic


EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Albania

November 2004 - present: Director: Jehona Study Center

www.jehonacenter.org

February 2005 - September 2006: Editor in Chief: IMPAKT ndėrkombėtar
February 2004 - August 2006 - History lecturer : Kajtazi College

Responsibilities: Teaching Medieval and Modern History



Translations in Albanian:

Stanford Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Cambridge University Press, London, 1979 (volume I + II) (2006)

Ahmet Davutoglu, Civilizational Transformation and the Muslim World, Kuala Lumpur 1996