TKG manages a number of publishing activities, from magazines to the translation and printing of books. Our publishing division is home to Afghanistan’s highest circulation independent press and only one to reach every province of the country on a weekly basis:
- Killid Weekly (general interest and news weekly)
- Mursal Women’s Magazine (Afghanistan’s only magazine dedicated to women to be distributed in every province of the country)
Both of these magazines are sold at a nominal fee and largely subsidized by DHSA through the funds it generates through its various media activities and advertising revenues.
Other publishing projects:
- The translation, publication and distribution for the first time in Afghanistan the manual Crimes of War, What the Public Should Know and formed a unique partnership with the UK based Crimes of War Project which provides capacity building for our team of journalists and translates into English and posts on a website created for the partnership the investigative reports into crimes of war and human rights abuses produced by TKG reporters: http://www.crimesofwar.org/education/Afgh-reports.html
- First publication of a Dari/Pashto version of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery;
- Publication of the works of the notable Afghan writer Sayed Bahudin Majdrou to include a segment of his major work “Ego Monster,”
- Publication of a collection of French writers about their travels through Afghanistan,
- In 2009 we will translate into Pashto and Dari and publish Descent Into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid;
- Partnership with The Inter Press Service News Agency, working closely with its Delhi office to get reports by TKG published and distributed through IPS worldwide.
The distribution of TKG’s publishing materials in Afghanistan is managed through a strategic partnership with a private distribution company, nyeEXpress (www.nyeexpress.com). nyeEXpress manages the distribution of TKG’s public communication materials (PSA posters, pamphlets etc), it’s two weekly magazines, Mursal Women’s Magazine & Killid Weekly, plus 20 other independent publications as well as the ISAF newspaper nationwide.
