Affiliation : Georgian Academy of Sciences    Head of the Institue : George Sanikidze    Date of establishment : 1960    Tel : (+99532) 23-23-72    Fax : (+99532) 233008    Addres : Acad. G.Tsereteli 3,Tbilisi - 62, 380062    Email : root@orient.acnet.ge    Url : http://www.acnet.ge/orient.htm    More : Study of Indo-Iranic, Semitic, Turkic and Old Oriental Languages' phonetic-phonological and grammatical structures with comparative-typological methods. Theoretical, historical and descriptive lexicological aspects of these Languages. Aspects of Assyrian-Babylonic and Old Hebrew hymnography, middle centuries' Iranian Aesthetic thinking, Problems of Persian and Turkish Poetry. History of literature of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Azer, Byzantine, Sirian and their relationship with Georgian literature. Near East folklore. Social - Economic development of Near and Middle East Countries and Political history in Middle Ages. Modern national, ethnocultural and ethnodemographical processes. Source Study and special historical disciplines.