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Armida Publications is an independent publishing house based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Founded in 1997 by Panos Ioannides, their goal is to promote high level English-language publications from Cyprus and from Cypriot authors based abroad, or authors connected to Cyprus; they carry titles from authors based in the United States, the United Kingdom, Greece, and from all over the EU. Over the course of their history, they have been won and been nominated for awards prizes for literature from the European Union and also the International Rubery Book Award. <ref and their title To Peirama (The Experiment) by Myrto Azina Chronides won the European Union Prize for Literature for Cyprus in 2011 prizes for literature from the European Union and the International Rubery Book Award. They have translated works from the likes of Roger Willemsen and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, and have published titles by Nora Najarian, Elmos Konis and Baret Yacoubian.

Armida is a founding member of the Cyprus Association of Book Publishers, itself a part of the the Federation of European Publishers (FEP). Armida works in collaboration with the Cyprus PEN Centre, and publishes the quarterly magazine 'In Focus'.

1997 – 2011
Was predominantly Greek books distributed in Cyprus and Greece. In that period they published books with Aiora Press for the Greek market and also acquired rights to German titles. This early period is also noteworthy as they focused on acquiring translation rights compared to the present where they are a net exporter of the aforesaid rights.

2011 – present
Following the success of Myrto’s The Experiment, which opened Armida up to a worldwide market, they signed deal with Ingram for worldwide distribution of English titles as well as expanded their operation to include electronic books of all formats, mainly focusing on the Amazon Kindle.

Work for the Deaf
Armida was part of a group of companies – namely AMP Filmworks Limited and Art FX – that bid for a project by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus. worked together to document the Cypriot sign language in a dictionary, a grammar book for teachers and a grammar book for students, accompanied by DVD’s. This was a ground-breaking achievement in the realm of aids deaf globally as the detail undertaken was unprecedented for its time, taking three years to complete. The project was completed in 2011 and released these titles:


 * Επικοινωνιτικη Γραμματικη (Communicative Grammar)
 * Γραμματικη Παραοδοσιακου Τυπου (Traditional Grammar)
 * Ενειολογικο Λεξιλογιο (Conceptual dictionary)

Including a DVD for each book.

Films
Armida has also produced a short film by award winning director Irena Joannides called Frequency.

Titles
Armida publishes a range of books in both English and Greek. The following is a list of there most notable titles, in both English and in Greek

English titles
A list of Armida's most notable English titles.

Greek titles
A list of notable Greek titles by Armida.