Marwan Hawash

The domes and minarets of Islamic Cairo, looking toward the Citadel, 1870. Photograph by R. V. Lanzone.
R. V. Lanzone, 1870

I design and build websites in Cairo, where an old album runs into a new lab.

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The same rooftops thrown through a pinhole. Ibn al-Haytham described the dark room in Cairo, around 1020.

Four specimens

Gabe Design

Studio platform, 2026

Site for the design and technology studio I build with.

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The rest

16 more specimens on the contact sheet, every one held under a lens.

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In the seam

Based in
Cairo, Egypt
Working
Remote, anywhere

I’m Marwan. I build websites in Cairo between two crafts: the patient one the old album was printed with, and the quick one screens run on. Most of my work happens in the seam between them, in sites that feel made by hand and still open in a second.

The Nile and its delta at night, from orbit. JPSS imagery: CSU/CIRA and NOAA/NESDIS.

Write to me

Have something the old way and the new way could both work on?

marwanmagdyhawash@
gmail.com

+20 120 688 8342Cairo, Egypt