I design and build websites in Cairo, cut and stitched one window at a time.

MARWAN HAWASHمروان حواش

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Stitched work

Gabe Design

Studio platform, 2026

Gabe Design, the site's opening screen

Site for the design and technology studio I build with: brand, product and engineering presented as one practice rather than three service pages. The studio work below mostly ships from here.

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Kwell Financial Strategies

Financial consultancy, 2026

Kwell Financial Strategies, the site's opening screen

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

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Habiba Sawaf

Portfolio and commerce, 2024

Habiba Sawaf, the site's opening screen

Portfolio and storefront in one, so the work and the thing you can buy live on the same surface without the catalogue swallowing the craft.

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07K Coffee

Specialty coffee brand, 2026

07K Coffee, the site's opening screen

Cinematic brand site for a specialty coffee roaster whose whole identity is built on being loud. The job was to make a browser feel like the room, so the motion carries as much of the brand as the copy does.

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The whole quilt

Every panel,
in one quilt.

All 20 projects pieced together with photographs of the street, in a quilt you pull around with a finger or a mouse.

Open the quilt

The street

Sharia al-Khayamiya runs south from Bab Zuwayla under a wooden roof, and its shops still cut and stitch every panel by hand.

  • Bab Zuwayla, seen from under the tentmakers' roof

    Bab Zuwayla, from under the roof

  • Khatam, the eight-point star

  • A tentmaker stitching a panel by hand

    Stitched by hand

  • Chalk

    First, the pattern

  • The pattern chalked onto cloth before it is cut

    The pattern on the cloth

  • Cut

    Then the window

  • Morning in al-Gamaliya

  • الخيامية

    Al-Khayamiya

  • Tree of life and star panels for sale on the street

    Panels for sale

  • Stitch

    So the seams hold

  • Arabian No. 5, ornament drawn from Cairo; The Grammar of Ornament, 1856 (1868 edition)

    Owen Jones, Arabian No. 5

  • The medallion

Cut by hand

Based in
Cairo, Egypt
Working
Remote, anywhere

I’m Marwan. I design and build websites in Cairo, a short walk from where the tentmakers still cut their panels. I work the way they do: the pattern first, then one window at a time, cut to fit and stitched so the seams hold when the wind gets in.

Write to me

Have a site that needs cutting to fit? Tell me about it.

marwanmagdyhawash@
gmail.com

+20 120 688 8342Cairo, Egypt