{"id":10780,"date":"2020-06-14T22:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T22:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education.hachette-antoine.com\/who-are-we\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:16:36","slug":"who-are-we","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/education.hachette-antoine.com\/en\/who-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are we?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"about-us-block relative\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\n\n    <div id=\"about-us-background\" class=\"w-full absolute inset-0\" style=\"background-color: #f5f5f5;\"><\/div>\n    <section id=\"about-us-container\" style=\"padding: 0;\" class=\"max-w-[1420px] w-full absolute top-0 left-1\/2 transform -translate-x-1\/2 inline-flex flex-col justify-start items-start z-10\">\n    <section class=\"breadcrumb p-0 px-2 m-0 lg:ml-[13px] h-15\">\n    \n<nav class=\"breadcrumb-nav max-w-full\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n    <div class=\"lg:ml-1.75 py-5 text-sm font-medium mb-6-mod\"\n        dir=\"ltr\"\n        style=\"text-align:left;\">\n        <p id=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"h-4.75 md:h-5 sm:text-sm md:text-[15px] font-normal\"><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/nav>\n\n<style>\n    #breadcrumbs a {\n        color: #9ca3af;\n        text-decoration: underline;\n    }\n\n    #breadcrumbs {\n        color: #9ca3af;\n        margin-bottom: 0;\n    }\n\n    #breadcrumbs a:hover {\n        text-decoration: none;\n        color: #007dba;\n        transition: text-decoration 0.3s ease, color 0.3s ease;\n    }\n<\/style>    <\/section>    \n        <div id=\"about-us-content-div\" class=\"about-us-container flex flex-col lg:flex-row  w-full\">\n            <!-- Left Column (Who Are We) -->\n            <div class=\"about-us-left  text-gray-700 lg:mb-0 lg:mr-10 lg:ml-2.5 w-full lg:w-[60.83%] lg:flex-shrink-0\">\n                <h2 id=\"title\" class=\"text-2xl lg:text-5xl lg:text-[42px] font-[100] text-[#3a3a3a] lg:mt-5.75 uppercase\">WHO ARE WE?<\/h2>\n                <div id=\"about-us-left-content\" class=\"text-sm md:text-[15px] font-normal text-[#7A7A7A] leading-relaxed mt-6 mb-5\">\n                    Launched in 2010, Hachette Antoine Education has ever since devoted its know-how and expertise to publishing schoolbooks of international renown, covering a wide range of subjects from Kindergarten to Grade 12. 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Based in Lebanon, Hachette Antoine has been catering primarily for the Levant, Gulf, and North Africa. It has published, since it was formed in 2010, an array of books (including Disney, being the brand\u2019s key licensee and publisher in the Middle East), under its 4 trade imprints: HA Reference, HA Kids, HA Lifestyle and Naufal assigned to Arabic literature. 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