Khatuna Tumanishvili

Khatuna Tumanishvili, Ph.D
Associate Professor
I.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Born 1964. Graduate baccalaureate of the I.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Department of Oriental Studies (Arabic Philology) in 1992. In 1989-1990 study Syrian Arab Republic (Damascus, Arabic Teaching Institute for Foreigners). In 1990-1991 student course at the Faculty of Humanities of Damascus University majoring in Arabic language and literature. Defend candidate dissertation entitled: “General theoretical issues of a proverb in the light of analysis of the Syrian dialect Arabic material”(2005).

Published around 40 scholarly works.
Major research interests: paremiology and Arabic folklore; comparative analysis of Arabic and Georgian paremias.

E-mail: khatu64@yahoo.com