Short Stories

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Jan 6, 20212 min read

Dead Soul

To tell the truth, before meeting an Armenian for the first time I couldn’t imagine them as human beings because my family has seen the war.

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Jan 6, 20213 min read

An Interesting Conversation between 3 Caucasians

It was 11 September 2018. We were on the train going from Kiev to Dnipro for the second part of our training...

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Dec 30, 20203 min read

All roads lead to KFC

These “first encounters” started from naive contacts in Georgia...

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Dec 30, 20203 min read

The Act of Meeting

I do not find anything extraordinary in my experience of encountering people with an Azerbaijani ethnic background...

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Dec 30, 20202 min read

Armenians introduced me to Foucault

I had never been a person with prejudice. When I was a very young boy, I learnt from my grandmother stories about the coexistence...

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Dec 30, 20204 min read

Getting to know your neighbors outside of your neighborhood

Today in the midst of war that gets uglier as it takes more lives, I keep thinking about the universality of the experience of a human...

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Dec 30, 20203 min read

Barriers are made to be broken

My first encounter with an Azerbaijani person happened in Tbilisi during the workshop on the South Caucasus' conflicts...

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Dec 30, 20203 min read

An early lesson about fairness

When I was asked to write a short story about how I met an Armenian the first time or about an Armenian who impressed me the most...

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Dec 30, 20203 min read

Learning and Unlearning

The first time I met an Armenian was when my family just moved to Moscow & I was around six years old. I went out to play with other kids...

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Dec 30, 20204 min read

Hope

I have met many people from Azerbaijan during my trips to Georgia. With most of them we would have small talks in shops or cafes, & then...

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Dec 30, 20203 min read

Living in Peace with the Enemy

I am from a small town in Azerbaijan. Our house was located near the settlements of the internally displaced people (IDP)...

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Dec 30, 20205 min read

Azerbaijanis at a Dashnak event

Before describing my first encounter with Azerbaijanis, I believe it is worth giving a brief outline of my upbringing & identity formation..