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Adil Allawi Technical Director adil@diwan

Adil Allawi Technical Director adil@diwan.com. Diwan in Brief. Started Arabic Electronic Publishing Revolution in 1985 Worked with Apple Computer Inc. to define new fonts and Arabic OS interface First Arabic Desktop Publishing First Ever Fully Electronic Newspaper

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Adil Allawi Technical Director adil@diwan

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  1. Adil Allawi Technical Director adil@diwan.com

  2. Diwan in Brief • Started Arabic Electronic Publishing Revolution in 1985 • Worked with Apple Computer Inc. to define new fonts and Arabic OS interface • First Arabic Desktop Publishing • First Ever Fully Electronic Newspaper • Award Winning Desktop Software and Fonts • PC Magazine award - al-Nashir al-Sahafi Yaqout • TDC Award - Diwan Mishafi Typeface • Pioneers in Mobile Computing • First Arabic WAP publishing system • First specially developed Arabic typeface for mobile device

  3. Diwan in Brief • Working with… • OpenWave Inc. • Providing multilingual solutions for Moblie Browser • Siemens (Information and Communication) • Providing multilingual solutions for mobile phones • Arabic, Thai, Malayalam • Management services for translations • Sun Microsystems Inc. • Member of partner program • Member of Java CAP - testing international features of Java 1.4 • Apple Computer Inc. • Providing Arabic system font for Mac OS X

  4. Diwan Software • Multilingual text engine - handles bidirectional text and OpenType fonts • Fully Bilingual Arabic/English Publishing Software • The standard fonts for the Arabic publishing industry

  5. Diwan Experience • Main consultant to Apple Computer Inc. for Arabic Macintosh • Main consultant to Siemens and other companies for multilingual software support • Develops own fully localised software solutions for Macintosh and Windows • Own library of solutions to for Arabic software support (e.g. Spelling checker, Locale information, fonts)

  6. Diwan People • Software Development Team • Expertise in C/C++ development on Macintosh, Mac OS X Unix, Windows, Embedded Systems • Client/Server software programming using RMI, J2EE • Java software developers for Arabic/English applications • Oracle database programming

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