Marwan Hawash

A lane of mashrabiya houses below a carved minaret, 1870. Photograph by R. V. Lanzone.

I design and build websites in Cairo. This album keeps the work as plates, the way the city was first photographed.

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A merchant house screened in turned-wood mashrabiya, 1870. Photograph by R. V. Lanzone.
A merchant house screened in turned-wood mashrabiya. R. V. Lanzone, 1870.

Made in Cairo

I’m Marwan. I make websites for studios, agencies, clinics, coffee roasters and boats on the Nile, and I care about two things above the rest: that a site feels like the place it comes from, and that it still opens fast on a phone with one bar of signal.

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Selected
plates

  1. Gabe Design, the site's card

    Gabe Design

    Studio platform, 2026

    Site for the design and technology studio I build with.

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  2. Kwell Financial Strategies, the site's card

    Kwell Financial Strategies

    Financial consultancy, 2026

    Site for a financial strategy consultancy, where every layout decision is really a trust decision, and clarity beats decoration.

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  3. Habiba Sawaf, the site's card

    Habiba Sawaf

    Portfolio and commerce, 2024

    Portfolio and storefront on one surface.

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  4. 07K Coffee, the site's card

    07K Coffee

    Specialty coffee brand, 2026

    Cinematic brand site for a specialty coffee roaster whose whole identity is built on being loud.

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The atlas

16 more plates are charted in the atlas, each pinned to a landmark on Piri Reis’s map of Cairo and the Nile.

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The domes and minarets of Islamic Cairo, looking toward the Citadel, 1870. Photograph by R. V. Lanzone.
The domes and minarets of Islamic Cairo, looking toward the Citadel. R. V. Lanzone, 1870.
A Mamluk facade and shop awnings on a market street, 19th century. Photographer unknown.
A Mamluk facade and shop awnings on a market street. Unknown photographer, 19th century.
Feluccas on the Nile at Qasr al-Nil, 19th century. Photograph by Félix Bonfils.
Feluccas on the Nile at Qasr al-Nil. Félix Bonfils, 19th century.

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Have a site that should feel like somewhere? Tell me where.

marwanmagdyhawash@
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+20 120 688 8342Cairo, Egypt