Maia Nukri Tabidze

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Nukri is an activist and researcher from Abkhazia living and working in Tbilisi. Their main research interests are sexuality, nationalism, social movements, and the economy.

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Georgia

Opinion | The toxic masculinity of Georgia’s gangster prince

by Maia Nukri Tabidze

•4 min read

The sexist tropes parroted by Bera Ivanishvili tell us a lot about how gender and power operate in Georgia, and the incompatibility of celebrity with the real-world power of a “prince”. On 6 March, the public became privy to explosive personal conversations between Bera Ivanishvili, the son of Georgia’s richest man and founder of the Georgian Dream party, and Irakli Gharibashvili, the country’s Prime Minister. The two men appeared to discuss violence committed against critics (some of them sch

2008 August War

Opinion | It’s time for Georgia to challenge its narrative of the August War

by Maia Nukri Tabidze

•6 min read

It has been over a decade since the August War and three decades since Georgia’s territorial conflicts first broke out, and still, the discussion remains the same. If the deadlock is ever to be broken, Georgia’s government and society at large need to reexamine how we look at and talk about these conflicts. Who started the war in South Ossetia in August 2008? More than 10 years later, discussions about the August War in South Ossetia are still reduced to this question. Who fired the shot

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