POSITIONS HELD:

2016 – till now – Director of the Center for the Study of Arab Countries and Islamic World

2009 - 2016 – Rector, Free University of Tbilisi

1991 - 2009 – Rector and Founder, Tbilisi Institute of Asia and Africa

1991 - till now – President and Founder of the Association for Relations of Georgia with Arab Countries

1991 - 2010 – Head and Founder of the Department of Oriental Languages, Kutaisi State University, Georgia

1997– Member of the Consultative Board, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

MEMBERSHIP AND HONORARY MEMBERSHIP:

Member of the International Arabic Dialectologist’ Association, AIDA, 1994

Member of the European Association for Central Asian Studies, 1998

Honoured member of the United Arab Emirates’ Documentaries and Studies Centre, 1994

Assembly Member of Parliament of Cultures, Ankara, Turkey 2004

Linguistic Society of America, 2011