Gubaz Sanikidze is a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 politician who is one of the leaders of National Forum

National Forum

National Forum is a political party in Georgia, formed on December 15, 2006. Kakhaber Shartava, chairman of the party, is the son of Georgian national hero Jiuli Shartava....

 party. He was born in Kutaisi

Kutaisi

Kutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:...

 on 2 February 1967. He graduated from Tbilisi State University

Tbilisi State University

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University , better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...

 where he studied to be an orientalist

Oriental studies

Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies...

 (arabist

Arabist

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).

Political career

His political career started in the Traditionalists Union in 1990. He was a member of Parliament of Georgia

Parliament of Georgia

Parliament of Georgia is the supreme legislature of Georgia. It is unicameral and has 150 members, known as deputies, from which 75 members are proportional representatives and 75 are elected through single-member district plurality system, representing their constituencies...

 between 1990–1991 and 1999–2003.
In 2006, he founded the political party the National Forum

National Forum

National Forum is a political party in Georgia, formed on December 15, 2006. Kakhaber Shartava, chairman of the party, is the son of Georgian national hero Jiuli Shartava....

 with Kakhaber Shartava and other veteran politicians.