{"id":229,"date":"2018-08-01T14:08:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ward-books.com\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2020-06-10T22:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:50:26","slug":"about-dar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ward-books.com\/en\/about-dar\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_812717173\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1773879117\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-533135971\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row row-large align-center\"  id=\"row-868061864\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-2067542076\" class=\"col medium-9 small-10 large-10\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" style=\"margin-bottom:1px;\"><h4 class=\"section-title section-title-bold-center\"><b><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" style=\"font-size:156%;color:rgb(235, 50, 50);\">About Us<\/span><b><\/b><\/h4><\/div>\n\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ed1c24; font-size: 100%;\">About Ward Book House\u060c<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\">The beginning of Ward Book House for Publishing and Distribution started as a cultural adventure in 1996 with modest means, to help spread beauty and culture in the Arab region and in the midst of a crowd of Syrian and Arab publishing houses with a long history and unlimited cultural, commercial and financial relations. However, our priority of focus has always been on literature from around the world, by translating it and presenting it in the best way possible, in addition to some publications in theatre, poetry, literary and critical studies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-2067542076 > .col-inner {\n  margin: 0px 0px -20px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row align-center\"  id=\"row-1184871692\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1204894313\" class=\"col medium-11 small-12 large-10\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover has-parallax\" id=\"banner-989806653\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" data-parallax=\"-5\" data-parallax-container=\".banner\" data-parallax-background>\n            <div class=\"bg fill bg-fill \"><\/div>\n                                    \n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-989806653 {\n  padding-top: 300px;\n}\n#banner-989806653 .bg.bg-loaded {\n  background-image: url(https:\/\/ward-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/\u063a\u0644\u0627\u0641-2-1024x543.png);\n}\n#banner-989806653 .bg {\n  background-position: 50% 42%;\n}\n@media (min-width:850px) {\n  #banner-989806653 {\n    padding-top: 500px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1204894313 > .col-inner {\n  margin: 0px 0px -160px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-533135971 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 50px 0px 0px 0px;\n  margin: -70px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_812717173 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_222433696\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row align-center\"  id=\"row-2091150484\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-2119422767\" class=\"col medium-11 small-12 large-10\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 110%;\">A very limited handful of these publishing houses set the cultural-cognitive goal as a primary goal, and Ward Book House had to take risks in the midst of the publishing chaos, commercial competition with its modest project armed with firm will, persistent insistence, and an overwhelming desire to advance the cultural-cognitive issue, specifically in Literary, fictional and world fields. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 110%;\">We\u2019ve translated many authors from various languages by hiring the best translators there are based on each language. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-2119422767 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 28px 0px 0px 0px;\n  margin: 54px 0px 23px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<style>\n#row-2091150484 > .col > .col-inner {\n  padding: 50px 0px 20px 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #row-2091150484 > .col > .col-inner {\n    padding: 100px 0px 50px 0px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row align-center\"  id=\"row-1842497421\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1647463807\" class=\"col medium-11 small-12 large-10\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row row-large align-middle\"  id=\"row-1125118517\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-367447941\" class=\"col medium-4 small-12 large-6 col-hover-focus\"  data-animate=\"bounceIn\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover bg-zoom\" id=\"banner-1033030607\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n            <div class=\"bg fill bg-fill \"><\/div>\n                                    \n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-1033030607 {\n  padding-top: 300px;\n}\n#banner-1033030607 .bg.bg-loaded {\n  background-image: url(https:\/\/ward-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/books-haidar-1024x684.png);\n}\n#banner-1033030607 .bg {\n  background-position: % 0%;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #banner-1033030607 {\n    padding-top: 109%;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-367447941 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 0px 22px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1648456853\" class=\"col medium-8 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 115%;\">We\u2019ve published from all over the world such as\u00a0<strong><em>J. M Coetzee,\u00a0 Alberto V\u00e1zquez-Figueroa, Antonio Gala, Ram\u00f3n Mayrata, Pascal Quignard, Gilbert Sinou\u00e9, <\/em><\/strong>and some of them were invited to visit Syria, we\u2019ve also presented the best Arabic edition of\u00a0<strong><em>Cervantes<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>Don Quixote de la Mancha<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0with collaboration and funding from the Spanish Ministry of Culture, considering we\u2019re a cultural corporation and profit has never been our main priority, but to deliver the books with the best quality we can obtain, we\u2019ve published for many Arabic authors as well such as\u00a0<strong><em>Waciny Laredj, Haidar Haidar<\/em><\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><em>Abdellatif Laabi,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0we\u2019ve also translated and published\u00a0<strong><em>Dante Alighieri<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s<strong><em>\u00a0Divine Comedy<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>The Mahabharata,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0along\u00a0<strong><em>with Thomas Mann, D.H. Lawrence, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Honor\u00e9 de Balzac,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and many other classics from world literature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1648456853 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\n  margin: -10px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row row-large align-middle\"  id=\"row-1316994102\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-506926282\" class=\"col medium-8 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 105%;\">We have collaborations with various agencies from all over the world, such as\u00a0<strong><em>Penguin Random House<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>, Grasset, Peter Lampack, Gallimard, Albin Michel, Curtis Brown, InkWell, The Wylie Agency, Andrew Nurnberg, Fayard, Faber &amp; Faber<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and many more, we&#8217;ll also be publishing later this year for authors such as\u00a0<strong><em>Elizabeth H. Winthrop, Keniz\u00e9 Mourad, Pearl S. Buck, Tariq Ali, William Golding, J. G. Ballard, Hanif Kureishi, Gilbert Sinoue, Ernesto Sabato<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>Angela Carter, Joseph Campbell<\/em><\/strong> and other to come ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 105%;\">The silent and quiet struggle, in addition to the dynamism of the project family, and the founder of the house was the crane and bridge to bring the project to its good cultural reputation during the few years not exceeding ten years of the life of the house.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-506926282 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 0px 56px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1465493237\" class=\"col medium-4 small-12 large-6 medium-col-first\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover bg-zoom\" id=\"banner-1918078531\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n            <div class=\"bg fill bg-fill \"><\/div>\n                                    \n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-1918078531 {\n  padding-top: 300px;\n}\n#banner-1918078531 .bg.bg-loaded {\n  background-image: url(https:\/\/ward-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1546208_10202900691971195_2278159614340065639_n.jpg);\n}\n#banner-1918078531 .bg {\n  background-position: 17% 2%;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #banner-1918078531 {\n    padding-top: 99.99%;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1465493237 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 19px 16px 0px;\n  margin: 0px 0px 34px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1647463807 > .col-inner {\n  margin: 0px 0px -110px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_222433696 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n  background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n<div class=\"row row-large align-middle align-center\"  id=\"row-425332434\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-789220054\" class=\"col medium-4 small-12 large-4\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover bg-zoom\" id=\"banner-1636888381\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n            <div class=\"bg fill bg-fill \"><\/div>\n                                    \n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-1636888381 {\n  padding-top: 300px;\n}\n#banner-1636888381 .bg.bg-loaded {\n  background-image: url(https:\/\/ward-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-16-at-7.03.49-PM.jpeg);\n}\n#banner-1636888381 .bg {\n  background-position: 52% 92%;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #banner-1636888381 {\n    padding-top: 151%;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#col-789220054 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 5px 0px 0px 6px;\n  margin: 0px -5px 1px -9px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-489385737\" class=\"col medium-8 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 105%;\">The selection of the book prepared for publishing was of good quality, its international reputation and its author, and the search for competent translators who were proficient in foreign languages: English, French, Spanish &#8230; etc., a task that included some difficulties and pitfalls, especially in the competitive and commodity commercial publishing world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 105%;\">It was and still is the best and the highest testimony of the house: the reader, this ruling \u2013 like a sword, in the end, in addition to that the testimony of Arab intellectuals with the deep cultural quality of the house as a cultural project &#8211; knowledge and enlightenment and achieving excellence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 105%;\">Through the exhibitions that are held in Arab capitals, Ward Book House has proven its worth and forefront, and has significantly attracted the attention of educated elites, in addition to its credit of serious and distinguished readers. 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