Short Stories

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.

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...

All roads lead to KFC

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

The Act of Meeting

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

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...

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...

Barriers are made to be broken

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

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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..