Starting the Electronic Publishing Revolution: Diwan (Science and Information Technology Limited) was founded in 1985, and pioneered Desktop Publishing (DTP) in the Arabic language. Diwan soon developed the DTP applications al-Nashir al-Maktabi and al-Nashir al-Sahafi based on the US application, Ready,Set,Go!. These programs are still the leading DTP products in the Arabic language.
Diwan started the electronic newspaper publishing revolution with those products and a number of new ones for information workflow like NewsNet, PictureNet and CommsNet. Al-Hayat newspaper was launched in London in 1987 using Diwan's systems. It was, according to a BBC programme, the first ever fully electronic newspaper in the world. Soon other Arab newspapers adopted Diwan's system, like Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Al-Ahram and others.
The current company, Diwan Software Limited, is still owned and managed by original founders of Diwan (Science and Information Technology Limited) and represents some of the longest experience and best knowledge of any company in the Arabic software market.
The first major act of Diwan Software Limited was to buy the full international marketing and copyrights to Ready,Set,Go! from Esselte for a cash payment of a quarter million US dollars on 9 September 1996.
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CIW Media Group is a Diwan reseller in Egypt
