Tadween Publishing will pursue the development of the categories below as part of our mission to deliver both traditional and non-traditional publications of the highest quality. Tadween also aims to interact with potential authors during the earlier phases of the publication process in order to integrate interactive content when possible and productive. Our discussion forums and communication tools will be used to create a different kind of relationship between author and publishing house, author and text, and readers and text. Approaching texts as dynamic contributions to an ongoing conversation, we view the production of knowledge as an ongoing process of refinement rather than an attempt to achieve unquestionable truths.

Dear Readers,

We are hereby launching Tadween Publishing, a new kind of publishing house that seeks to institutionalize a new a new form of knowledge production. A subsidiary of the Arab Studies Institute, Tadween aims both to publish critical texts and to interrogate existing processes and frameworks through which knowledge is produced. Specifically, Tadween is dedicated to four fundamental goals:

• To join the current that challenges the monopoly of the mainstream publishing world by expanding and deepening the notion of what is publication-worthy; 
• To offer readers thoroughly interactive products that bring the benefits of technology to refined scholarship and other significant texts;
• To focus on pedagogy by attending to the way texts and other forms of produced knowledge best make their way into a classroom; and
• To contribute to a new kind of process, and content, of knowledge production on the Middle East and beyond.

We will publish in Arabic, English, and French, and there will be no restrictions on region or topic.