Diwan Software Ltd

General information

Diwan has a well-established record for providing custom solutions and consultation work in the fields of
Arabization, software development, and educational technology.
Its current work includes manufacturing and selling of educational software and systems in the Middle East, Europe and America.
Diwan’s technology has been used in millions of mobile devices worldwide and licensed by a variety of international companies from Apple Inc. to Zynga.
It has one of the largest libraries of quality Arabic typefaces. Diwan also produced the award winning Mishafi font that is able to faithfully replicate the holy Quran.
It is one of the largest regional investors in software research and development. Results of Diwan research have been accepted at prestigious international conferences such as UIST, ITS, EDMEDIA and the Unicode Conference.

Past projects:
• Developed Oannis on Windows 7. The first Interactive Classroom System in the region and used by Dubai Police Academy, in the UAE.
• Developed the standard Arabic fonts used by Apple Inc. in Mac OS X, and iOS.
• Created a fully electronic classroom for the Oman Ministry of Education. This has been confirmed by Intel to be the first time such a system has been successfully deployed in the world.
• Worked with W3C and Microsoft to add Arabic mathematical symbols to Unicode standard.
• Consultant to Yahoo! Inc. for Arabic support in its web properties.
• Working with W3C and Google to define right-to-left language support in HTML5.
• Worked with Google to convert their web application system “Google Web Toolkit” to handle Arabic.
• Digitisation of the high school curriculum (three classes, 90 educational book) for the Republic of Yemen Ministry of Education.
• Digitisation of the high school curriculum for the Oman Ministry of Education.
• Implemented Islamic, electronic educational books (21 book) for all the education classes in Saudi Arabia for Dar al Wasilah. Approved by the Saudi Ministry of Education to be the standard for study of the Islamic curriculum.
• Consultation for Sun Microsystems on Arabic support in StarOffice.
• Internationalization of the Openwave mobile browser to provide full support for the bi-directional features of XHTML and support for Arabic, Thai, Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, and other complex languages.
• Coding of Openwave mobile browser to handle multilingual text, and licensing of specialised software and fonts. Used in Sony Erricson, Motorola, Siemens, Sagem and other mobile phones.
• Internationalization of software in Siemens mobile phones to support Arabic, Thai and Malayalam.