Dr. Skender Asani
Dr. Skender Asani was born on April 7 in Skopje, where he has completed primary and secondary education. In 1994 he was enrolled in the first generation at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tetovo – direction: history. With perseverance and great dedication in 1998 he graduated from among the top of his class. He got his master’s degree at the State University of Tetovo in 1998 and finished his PhD at National History Institute of Macedonia in 2013.
From 2014 he is the director of the Institute for Cultural and Spiritual Heritage of Albanians in Macedonia. Under is tenure, the Institute has done several project, both national and international. He is also the co-founder and president of the NGO Acta Non Verba, an NGO with a mission to improve the society, to promote civil society and local communities as well as to perform activities to encourage moral values, strengthening of interethnic and interreligious relations, health care and protecting the rights of women, children, minorities, encouraging ethical and moral values, development and environmental protection, development of sports and recreational activities, protection of cultural heritage of the communities in the Republic Macedonia, combating anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism and hate speech.
Skender Asani has been project coordinator for the project “Dealing with the past – History and politics”, supported by the United States Department of State – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, January 12-22.2014, Atlanta-Georgia, USA. In 2015, he was an active participant in the International Conference on Inter-religious Relations –Muslim Jewish Conference in Berlin, Germany.
He was also a participant in the research trip for the project Civil Courage in Difficult Times”, Washington DC, May 8-9, 2016
With the Institute and NGO’s, Skender Asani has helped to organize several project such as organizing a book promotion of the memoirs of Mimi Kahmi Ergas- Faraggi – My life under the Nazi Occupation, in Skopje and in Scadar Macedonia, Participating in The Beit Project – a European and Mediterranean project promoting social cohesion. Skender Asani is Co- author of a book and an exhibition and of never seen before document and testimonies about Albanians who saved the Jews during WWII, which was promoted in New York City, by the NGO Acta Non Verba.
Having published more than 30 books, participated and organized countless international conferences, and published several scientific studies in international journals, Skender Asani remains one of the leading scholars on his field.