Implemented Projects

Projects implemented during 2010-2013

• The History of the Middle East and its relations with the South Caucasus (turn of the twentieth century)
• Georgian, Western and Eastern historical narrtives: Comparative Studies
• Persian-Georgian Dictionary
• Diachronic Philological analysis of Persian texts and dictionaries
• Electronic journal Middle East
• The importance of Georgian "Calila e Dimna" in the establishment of the original academic text
• Sinai  - Georgia, new pages in the centuries-old history
• The etymology of "Okona" and the Okona Triptych
• Shaping of Roman epos in medieval Persian literature
• 19^th -century Georgia viewed from Eastern and Western perspectives (French and Iranian authors about Georgia)
• Georgian-Persian bilingual documents
• Issues related to commonly used vocabulary in the Georgian and Armenian languages;
• Tradesmen and trade relations between the Transcaucasian cities (from the 19^th century through the first quarter of the 13^th century)
• International situation in the Middle East and the South Caucasus in 1723, prior to the Ottoman-Persian war
• Egyptian educators Muhammad Abduh and Qasim Amin
• Cultural traces of Georgian Mamluks in Baghdad
• Aspects of diglossia in Arabic
• Similes and metaphors in "Shahnameh" and their equivalents in the Georgian translation
• Iranian-Georgia relations in the second quarter of the 18^th century
• Identity of the tribes living in the Abkhazian territory
• Queen Tamar's foreign policy and Vepkhistkaosani

• Georgian-English linguistic terminology: Annotated Dictionary
• Aramaic/Nonaramaic inscriptions of Georgia
• Typological study of the Turkish language and literature
• Ancient Indian History
• Lexico-semantic analysis of lexical units of semitic origin in Georgian
• Byzantine-Georgian relations
• Medieval Iranian trade, economic and political relations with the countries of Western Europe and the South Caucasus
• Besik's literary orientation - addressee in Besik's amorous lyrics
• Major texts and sources on the roots of the Persian language (Stage I: updating and expanding the base of the Persian-Georgian academic dictionary provided with studies, references and other resources)
• Essays on Georgian-Ossetian cultural and historical relations
• Cultural traces of Georgian Mamluks in Baghdad
• Issues relating to the commonly used vocabulary in the Georgian and Armenian languages
• Arabic and European literary influences
• Some issues relating to language ecology (in Arabic, Georgian and German)