{"id":5383,"date":"2015-01-17T06:44:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T04:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:16:00","slug":"armanshahr-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2015\/01\/armanshahr-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA Publishing House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA was established during the civil war in Tajikistan 17 years ago. It started up its Publishing Unit<\/a> in 2003 by publishing its first book \u201cOne Thousand and one Poems for Afghanistan\u201d. In the same year, it published \u201cCaravan of Poetry for Peace and Democracy in Afghanistan\u201d, \u201cCaravan of Light (for young readership)\u201d and \u201cCaravan of Poetry for Peace\u201d in Tajikistan (in Cyrillic script). With the onset of Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA\u2019s activities in Afghanistan, its book publishing took a more serious turn.<\/p>\n

At the beginning, Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA mainly published pamphlets containing the texts and speeches presented at the public-debate Goftegu meetings that it initiated. \u201cIn praise of Ahmad Shamlou, Living Conscience of International Poetry\u201d was the first pamphlet to appear in this series. Subsequently, other pamphlets were published on citizenship, social justice in Islam, seeking truth and the quest for justice, freedom of expression, democracy, civil society and international experience, cultural invasion, universities in Afghanistan and the capacity to produce elite, globalisation, feminism and other topics.<\/p>\n

In the period that followed in 2009, the Publishing Unit adopted a new approach to publish more serious books on human rights, arts and literature, transitional justice, women, and children and young people. These books were classified in several series: \u201cLet\u2019s break the silence<\/a>\u201d, \u201cWomen<\/a>\u201d, \u201cSimorgh<\/a>\u201d \u201cGoftegu<\/a>\u201d, \u201cChildren & Young People<\/a>\u201d, and \u201cPolitis asia<\/a>\u201d. The Publishing Unit has published books by such authors as Edward Said, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Hans Christian Andersen, Hanna Arendt, George Orwell, Ray Douglas Bradbury, Albert Camus and others.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s break the silence<\/b><\/p>\n

Books in this series concern justice and human rights. Here are some of the titles: \u201cAfghanistan: In Search of Truth and Justice\u201d, \u201cAgainst Oblivion, Experience of Truth and Justice Commissions\u201d, \u201cThe Past Enlightens the Future (a collection of interviews with victims and political personalities)\u201d, For recording in history (narratives of victims of one decade), \u201cRepresentations of the Intellectual\u201d, \u201cTotalitarianism\u201d, and \u201cAtlas of Human Rights\u201d.<\/p>\n

Women<\/b><\/p>\n

Titles concerning women and gender are published in this series. Whereas very few related titles have been published in Afghanistan before, Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA has concentrated more on this series in order to provide the basic topics to the interested readers and to develop a source for universities planning to establish Women\u2019s Studies courses. Titles in this series include, among others: \u201cThe Second Sex\u201d, \u201cSous les sciences sociales, le genre,\u201d \u201cTopics in Feminist Theory\u201d, \u201cDictionnaire critique du f\u00e9minisme,\u201d \u201cGender and Nation\u201d, \u201cSocial Movements of Women\u201d, \u201cThe status of Family and Women: According to the Shari\u2019a Law and Customary Practices in Afghanistan\u201d, \u201cFamily and Law: prospects of reforming the family law in Afghanistan\u201d, \u201cA Room of One\u2019s Own\u201d.<\/p>\n

Simorgh<\/b><\/p>\n

This series concerns arts and literature titles, because there is a solid relationship between positive social changes and strengthening the foundations of justice and human rights on the one hand and arts and literature on the other. Therefore, Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA has published many books by writers and poets from Afghanistan and other countries. These include: \u201cthe Plague\u201d, \u201cCacau\u201d, \u201c1984\u201d, \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d, \u201cFahrenheit 451\u201d, \u201cThe end of the three invulnerables\u201d, \u201cThere is a sad child in my dreams\u201d, \u201cFlames of Love\u201d, \u201cUp and Down\u201d, \u201cNowruznameh\u201d.<\/p>\n

Goftegu: dialogue<\/b><\/p>\n

Some of the books published by Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA are concerned with public-debate meetings, 146 of which have been organised since 2006 in Kabul, Herat, Balkh and Badakhshan. These titles contain the presentations in those meetings.<\/p>\n

Children and young people<\/b><\/p>\n

Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA has also paid much attention to the generation that will be running the world in the future. Very few books have been published for children and young people in Afghanistan. Therefore Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA has decided to publish some titles in this series. They include: \u201cThe Little Prince\u201d, \u201cUniversal Declaration of Human Rights for Children and Adolescents\u201d, \u201cThe Emperor\u2019s New Clothes\u201d, and \u201cStories from the Book of Kings\u201d in nine volumes.<\/p>\n

Politis asia<\/b><\/p>\n

A number of Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA titles have been published in this series. These titles have a uniform cover design and they mostly contain articles translated from other languages into Persian. Some of these titles include: \u201cViolations of Human Rights and US Policy\u201d, \u201cNATO, Exceptions to Democracy and Decline of Empires\u201d, \u201cDiscrimination and Political Participation of Women: Role of Education\u201d, \u201cUniversal Jurisdiction, mechanisms to prosecute human rights violators\u201d, \u201dA Handbook of Transitional Justice, A to Z\u201d, \u201cFederalism and democracy\u201d, \u201cEU guidelines-Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Armanshahr\/OPEN ASIA has produced a total print-run of 200,000 copies in the span of 11 years, which have been distributed gratis to students, cultural and civil activists. A number of these books are available in PDF format here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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