{"id":488,"date":"2023-06-15T06:54:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T06:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cascade.codesupply.co\/clothing\/?page_id=488"},"modified":"2026-10-25T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:14:14","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diwancanada.com\/ar\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"488\" class=\"elementor elementor-488\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c2803fc elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c2803fc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e1222cd\" data-id=\"e1222cd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-795290b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"795290b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ebba0ea\" data-id=\"ebba0ea\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67836c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cs-about-hero\" data-id=\"67836c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cs-about-hero.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"cs-about-hero cs-about-hero-right cs-about-hero-border-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cs-about-hero__container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cs-about-hero__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"cs-about-hero__heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tConnecting people through literature\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cs-about-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>Diwan Canada is an online bookstore and a future Montreal bookshop, growing from Rowayat\u2019s commitment to connecting people through literature. A franchise of Diwan Egypt, we are building a wide catalogue from across the Arab world, the wider South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, their diasporas, and the Global South, in original languages and translation. We ship across Canada and the United States.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cs-about-hero__image\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diwancanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/design-about-1296x864.png\" class=\"attachment-csco-large size-csco-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diwancanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/design-about-1296x864.png 1296w, https:\/\/www.diwancanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/design-about-306x204.png 306w, https:\/\/www.diwancanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/design-about-612x408.png 612w, https:\/\/www.diwancanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/design-about-856x570.png 856w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2d0f69 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cs-about-article\" data-id=\"e2d0f69\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cs-about-article.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"cs-about-article\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cs-about-article__container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cs-about-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cs-about-article__article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\u00a0<\/div><div>Based on the unceded lands of the Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka\/Mohawk Nation, we recognize a particular responsibility to Indigenous literatures across Turtle Island by highlighting and stocking their literary production. We centre Arab, feminist, Black, Indigenous, minority, and racialized voices, with space for liberation movements, including Black Power, Land Back, and others, as well as radical political thought. We aim for Diwan Canada to be a space grounded in care, human creativity, solidarity, and a rejection of hatred and discrimination.<\/div><p>Diwan Canada operates through Grotte des Merveilles \/ Cave of Wonders, a registered Quebec nonprofit.\u00a0<\/p><blockquote style=\"border-left: 4px solid #C63D32;padding-left: 1.25rem;margin: 2.5rem 0;font-size: 1.5rem;line-height: 1.4;font-weight: 500\"><p>Literature creates belonging.<cite style=\"display: block;margin-top: 0.75rem;font-size: 0.9375rem;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">Rowayat<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote><h2 style=\"font-size: 1.625rem;line-height: 1.3;margin: 2.75rem 0 1rem\">Our mission<\/h2><blockquote><div><div><div><div>To connect people through literature by making writing from across the Arab world, the wider Southwest Asia and North Africa region, their diasporas, and the Global South more accessible in Canada and the United States. Diwan Canada champions <span style=\"color: #ff2600\">Arab, SWANA,<\/span> feminist, Black, Indigenous, minority, and racialized writers, <span style=\"color: #ff2600\">working with and alongside<\/span> traditions of radical thought and liberation. Through thoughtful bookselling and exchange across languages, we celebrate human creativity and support the right of peoples to represent themselves on their own terms. Our work is grounded in solidarity and a firm rejection of hatred and discrimination.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><h2 style=\"font-size: 1.625rem;line-height: 1.3;margin: 2.75rem 0 1rem\">Our vision<\/h2><p>We envision Diwan Canada as creating a lasting literary home in Montreal, connected to readers across Canada and the United States, with a wide catalogue reflecting the many countries and communities of the Arab\/SWANA region, its diasporas, and the Global South. Indigenous literatures and Black liberation writing will be integral to this home. We want people to encounter different histories and radical ideas, create together, and find community through books.\u00a0<\/p><blockquote style=\"border-left: 4px solid #C63D32;padding-left: 1.25rem;margin: 2.5rem 0;font-size: 1.5rem;line-height: 1.4;font-weight: 500\"><p>A book can exist and still be difficult to find. Diwan Canada grows from the wish to close that distance.<\/p><\/blockquote><blockquote><div>For more than a decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/rowayat.org\">Rowayat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/diwanegypt.com\">Diwan Egypt<\/a> have brought writers from Canada to Cairo for readings, book launches, and residencies. Diwan Canada grows from those relationships, and from the literary home Diwan has been for many of us in Egypt. 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