Arman is the monthly publication of the association of Hazaras in Victoria which serves the growing Afghan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 community of Melbourne

Melbourne

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 and is distributed Australia

Australia

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-wide. It is published on the first Monday of each month and has a readership base of several thousand. Being the only regularly published and widely distributed Dari magazine in Australia, Arman is a valuable source of news, information, feature article

Feature article

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s as well as a guide to find products and services for Afghan community.

The first edition of Arman was published in October 2002 in just 8 pages and it has developed greatly in terms of both quality and quantity since. It is now a colour magazine in 40 pages and has found its place in Australian Afghan

Afghan Australian

Afghan Australians are Australians whose ancestors came from Afghanistan or who were born in Afghanistan.According to the 2006 Australian census 16,751 Australians were born in Afghanistan while 19,416 claimed Afghan ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry.-Afghan cameleers:The first Afghan...

community.

Currently Hamed Saberi is Arman monthly's chief editor and Sharif Samar is the executive officer. It is designed by Arif Fayazi.