Projects in the frame of the research program of the Institute
Georgian-Iranian Relations (History, Politics, Culture, Science)
Kurds and Yezids in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Countries
The Middle East Today (E-journal)
Byzantine-Georgian Relations
Interactions of Georgia with the Middle Eastern Countries in Mediaeval and Early Modern Times
The fundamental landmarks and sources of the bases of Persian language
Aspects of Turkish-Georgian linguistic relations and literary studies
Semitic Philology matters in the Georgian cultural and historical context
Aramaic inscriptions in Georgia
Between East and West: French and Iranian Authors about Georgia
Projects supported by the Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation
Documents about Georgia in the Archives and Libraries of Iran
The Cult and the Worship in the Byzantine Historical Narrative (8 th -13 th cc.)
Iranian Influence on the Clothing of Georgian Nobility: the Evidence from 16 th -17 th Centuries Frescoes in Western Georgia
Georgian Language Island in the Transethnical Area (GLITEA) – The Feriduni Dialect in Iran
Publication of the Bilingual Annotated Parallel Corpus of “The Book of Tobi”.
An Important Georgia Treatise (18 th c.) about the Western Christianity in the Context of Georgian-European Relations
Ancient Georgian Translated and Original Historical Writing (Bibliography)
International Projects:
Georgia and Korea: Parallels in the Historical Experience of Colonialism, Struggle for Independence, Liberation and State Building (with Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies)
IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS (2011-2019)
Selected projects implemented in the frame of the research program of the Institute
The importance of Georgian "Qalila va Dimna" in the establishment of the original academic text
Sinai – Georgia, new pages in the centuries-old history
Shaping of Roman epos in medieval Persian literature
Ancient Indian History
Georgian-Persian Bilingual Documents
Issues related to commonly used vocabulary in the Georgian and Armenian languages
Lexicological-semantic analysis of lexical units of Semitic origin in Georgian
Arabic and European literary influences
Medieval Iranian trade, economic and political relations with the countries of Western Europe and the South Caucasus
Typological study of the Turkish language and literature
Projects implemented by the support of the Shota Rustaveli National Scientific
Foundation
The History of the Middle East and its Relations with the South Caucasus (19 th – beginning of the 21 st c).
Georgian, Western and Eastern Historical Writing: Comparative Studies
Byzantine-Georgian Documentary Dictionary
Arabic Epitaphs of the Old Muslim Cemetery in Tbilisi
Between East and West (French and Iranian Authors about 19th c. Georgia)
The Language, Everyday Life and Culture of the population of the Georgian Origin of Mazandarani Province (Iran).
Georgian Sector of the Christian Cemeteries Complex in Tehran (Historical-Cultural Study, Fixation of Problems of Conservation and Outlining ways of Their Resolution)