Books and E-Papers

The Real Story of My Life: Sapo Mgeladze

Published: 25 April 2025
Sapo Mgeladze’s “The Real Story of My Life” is a truly important text in many ways. It is elusive in genre, but it intersects between documentary prose and memoir, with elements of a diary, and is unequivocally the “key to the writer’s biography and creativity” (Kupreishvili, 2023). At the same time, the era, the fate of a person and an artist in a repressive state, the multiple layers of gender and power relations. The relationship between the narrative of the text and the historical context in which it was created are read with particular intensity here.
Georgia’s Imitation Game: Hungary, Russia and the Rise of the Anti‑Liberal International Natalie

Georgia’s Imitation Game

Published: 7 November 2024
This study examines why and to what extent Georgia has been mimicking the Hungarian model under the leadership of the ruling Georgian Dream party and the broader implications of this phenomenon. It is also concerned with understanding the modalities of influence projection by Budapest and the main drivers behind it.
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Masculinities in the South Caucasus

Published: 22 July 2024
“Masculinities in the South Caucasus: Forms, Hierarchies, and Challenges” follows an interdisciplinary, multi-format approach, containing academic articles, autobiographical stories, oral histories, and illustrations. In their original contributions, sixteen authors from/based in the South Caucasus discuss masculinities to diverse social phenomena, including, but not limited to, clothing, fatherhood, sports, the military, criminal practices, and sexual identity. 
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Salt Traces

Published: 25 January 2024
This research is a journey of four women who grew up on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Our idea is to start the research project with the Caspian Sea and create a community of artists and researchers with whom we could expand into exploring the impact of climate change on other water bodies through stories of food and people.
Photo on the cover: Shahidlyar Khiyabany (Alley of Martyrs), Baku, 2015. Photo by Sevil Huseynova

A Tool Of Propaganda: Thirty Years Of Memory Politics In Independent Azerbaijan

Published: 10 May 2023
The article analyses the main trends of the memory politics in contemporary Azerbaijan. The author focuses on the specifics of the memorialisation of the events and heroes of the 'First Republic' (1918-1920); the events of January 1990 as the most important site of memory; the personality cult of the previous president Heydar Aliyev; and the memory politics with regard to the Karabakh conflict, including the commemoration of the Second Karabakh War (autumn 2020) unfolding in front of our eyes.
The cover of the publication is a collage work based on archival photos of women in medicine

Women in Medicine

Published: 24 March 2022
"Women in Medicine" – is the name of the project, which aspires to compile Georgian printed periodical publications of the second half of the XIX century ("Droeba," "Iveria," "Tsnobis Purtseli") and to collect archival materials on women's contribution to the healthcare affairs.
“The Aesthetics of Humanity” by Heinrich Boell

The Aesthetics of Humanity

Published: 29 June 2021
The publication includes the Armenian translation of the political essays of Heinrich Boell. It brings to your attention the political essays of Heinrich Boell, written between the 1950s and 1980s.   
Queer Feelings

Queer Feelings

Published: 21 January 2021
This publication "Queer Feelings" includes translations of the texts of Queer and feminist theorists.
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Stories of the South Caucasus. Special Edition

Published: 20 December 2019
The publication is prepared in the frameworks of hbs Tbilisi and media platform "Netgazeti" cooperation project "Stories of the South Caucasus". It includes 22 articles divided into several chapters: History, International Context, Everyday Life and Politics, Chronicle, Trust and Peace building.

Green Library: Contemporary Discussions Around Ecology and Sustainability

Published: 15 October 2019
Publication "Green Library: Contemporary Discussions Around Ecology and Sustainability" in a collection of translated articles on the following issues: values of Green movement, discussion around the Green economy, critics of development from the eco-feminist perspective and notion of social ecology.