Mrs. XHEVAHIRE IZMAKU was born on 15.08.1971 in the city of Vushtrri. She graduated on Albanian literature and language at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Prishtina. She continued her postgraduate studies at the University of Tirana where she earned the scientific degree of PhD of Communication Sciences

She worked as a professor and was engaged within the KMLDNJ as a human rights activist.

With the beginning of the war in Kosovo, in the years 1998-1999, she took an active part in helping the population endangered by the massacres also being in service of freedom fighters, by reporting for various Albanian and international agencies, as a war zone reporter. Then in the years 1999 – 2002 she continued working as a journalist-reporter on RTV 21 (private medium in Kosovo). 

Mrs. Xhevahire Izmaku, also has a rich political experience, being an MP for 3 terms during the years 2010 – 2019, but also part of many local institutions.

As an MP, she has been the Chairwoman of the committees for drafting the main laws related to the media in Kosovo, which are still in force. She is known as a poet, and as the owner and founder of cultural organizations of national character. She published articles in the daily and periodical press, as well as a considerable number of opinions and columns related to the culture, media and the functioning of the state administration in Kosovo. She is also the writer of 4 volumes of poetry, and a member of the Writers’ League of Kosovo.