Džemil Bektović was born in 1966 in Gostivar, North Macedonia, completed primary and secondary school in Skopje, and graduated in 1990 at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of history of art and archelogy, in Skopje. In 2005, he enrolled in master's studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje at the Department of Art History, taking a master's degree in the field of Contemporary Art in the field of History of Design. During his master's studies, he is engaged in numerous projects in the domain of his scientific field and design, and is an active member of the Center for Visual Communication.  In 2008, he enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Novi Pazar and defended his doctoral dissertation "Interior aspects of sacred buildings in Ottoman architecture in the 15th and 16th centuries in the Balkans". Since 2020 he is actively member of the Commission for International cooperation and Commission for archeology at Ministry of culture of Republic of North Macedonia.  In this period dr. Džemil Bektović is seriously engaged in scientific and research work, publishes a large number of texts in the domain of theory, history and philosophy of art in various scientific journals, and is a participant in numerous symposia where he has very notable papers.

Since 2017 prof. Dzemil Bektovic is full professor of History, Philosophy and Theory of art in the areas of Art, Design and Architecture at International Balkan University in Skopje.  Several times he was an external lecturer and visiting professor at different universities in the country, but also in other countries, such as the Norway, Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina.