{"id":113450,"date":"2025-01-13T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/blog?p=113450"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:16:52","slug":"naguib-sawiris-biography-a-story-of-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/blog\/113450-naguib-sawiris-biography-a-story-of-resilience","title":{"rendered":"Naguib Sawiris Biography\u200b: A Story of Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does the word &#8220;success&#8221; mean to you? Is it being famous? Being charismatic? Loved? What if you know that the word success in the dictionary of Naguib Sawiris means resilience, perseverance, and consistency? You get this impression when reading about the biography of Naguib Sawiris and real estate.<\/p>\n<p>Why are we talking about Sawiris and his success story? Well, being one of the well-known and most successful businessmen and entrepreneurs in Egypt, the story and biography of Naguib Sawiris are truly inspiring for anyone, whether starting a new business or just pursuing a 9-to-5 career.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading this article till its very end and you will know all about Naguib Saiwiris and how to be as successful and influential.<\/p>\n<h3>Before The Biography, Who is Naguib Sawiris?<\/h3>\n<p>We cannot start talking about Naguib Sawiris&#8217; biography without first telling you who this man is.<\/p>\n<p>Naguib Sawiris is a well-known businessman, entrepreneur, and father of four. He is a very influential public figure with many contributions in different fields, not only in telecommunications or real estate.<\/p>\n<p>Naguib Sawiris holds many important titles, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Owner and Chairman of Ora Developers<\/li>\n<li>Chairman and Managing Director of Orascom Investment Holding<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of Orascom TMT Investments in Luxembourg<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of the Board of Directors of La Mancha Holding Company<\/li>\n<li>Member of the External Advisory Board of the Global Institute for Advanced Study at New York University<\/li>\n<li>Founding member of the London Stock Exchange Africa Advisory Group<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of the Board of Directors of Euronews<\/li>\n<li>Vice President and co-founder of Sawiris Foundation for Social Development<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the Arab Thought Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Founder of the Free Egyptians Party<\/li>\n<li>Sponsor of Cairo International Film Festival and Luxor African Film Festival<\/li>\n<li>Member of the International Advisory Council of the National Bank of Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs and the Consumer Rights Protection Association in Egypt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that you know and realize the importance of this man, we can start talking about Naguib Sawiris and his biography.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123951\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123951\" src=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112240\/Naguib-Sawiris.webp\" alt=\"Naguib Sawiris\" width=\"701\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112240\/Naguib-Sawiris.webp 701w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112240\/Naguib-Sawiris-300x187.webp 300w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112240\/Naguib-Sawiris-150x94.webp 150w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112240\/Naguib-Sawiris-600x375.webp 600w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112240\/Naguib-Sawiris-696x435.webp 696w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112240\/Naguib-Sawiris-672x420.webp 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naguib Sawiris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>The Naguib Sawiris Biography: The Beginning<\/h3>\n<p>Naguib Onsi Sawiris, the eldest of three brothers, was born in 1954 to a wealthy family that owned the Orascom Group for contracting, telecommunications, technology, and development.<\/p>\n<p>Sawiris was raised in a family that appreciates the value of work, honesty, and independence. In all of his interviews, Sawiris always mentions how his father, Onsi, was strict in raising him.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being the son of a group owner, Naguib used to work and have his own business since school not for the need of many but because his father wanted to &#8220;teach him the entrepreneurial basics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The journey started when Naguib attended a German school in Egypt. He then pursued his higher education by obtaining a diploma in Mechanical Engineering with a Master\u2019s in Technical Administration from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Z\u00fcrich (ETH Z\u00fcrich).<\/p>\n<p>Returning to Egypt, Sawiris started a business with one of his friends, but later, his father, Onsi, approached him to join the family business. The thing that he did in 1979 was establish Orascom Group&#8217;s railway, information technology, and telecommunications sectors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123953\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123953\" src=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112406\/Naguib-Sawiris-1.webp\" alt=\"Naguib Sawiris\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112406\/Naguib-Sawiris-1.webp 800w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112406\/Naguib-Sawiris-1-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112406\/Naguib-Sawiris-1-768x433.webp 768w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112406\/Naguib-Sawiris-1-150x85.webp 150w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112406\/Naguib-Sawiris-1-600x338.webp 600w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112406\/Naguib-Sawiris-1-696x392.webp 696w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112406\/Naguib-Sawiris-1-745x420.webp 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naguib Sawiris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Naguib Sawiris Biography: The Story Continued<\/h3>\n<p>Before going on with Naguib Sawiris&#8217; biography, let us mention that the man is well-known for his construction and real estate development company, which holds many important projects in Egypt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/developer\/85\">Ora Developers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, you might be surprised to know that before taking the real estate division, Sawiris was &#8211; and partly is still- a telecommunications businessman in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving at this point in Naguib Sawiris&#8217; biography, we cannot dismiss talking about how he was one of the first entrepreneurs in Egypt to get a license to run Egypt\u2019s first mobile phone network, launching Orascom Group&#8217;s telecommunications division in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>By the early 2000s, the business had rapidly grown by operating in 28 countries. Later, Sawiris purchased Wind, Italy\u2019s third-largest mobile operator, in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>However, in 2011, Naguib made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-11477861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multibillion-dollar deal<\/a> between the Russian telecom firm VimpelCom (now Veon) and Orascom Telecom.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, he is the executive chairman of Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding S.A.E. (OTMT which has shares in Egypt and the Italian internet company Italiaonline.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123955\" style=\"width: 854px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123955\" src=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story.jpg\" alt=\"Naguib Sawiris' Story\" width=\"854\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story.jpg 854w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story-600x415.jpg 600w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story-696x482.jpg 696w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story-607x420.jpg 607w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112626\/Naguib-Sawiris-Story-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naguib Sawiris&#8217; Story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Naguib Sawiris&#8217; Benchmark: Ora Developers<\/h3>\n<p>As we have mentioned before, Ora Developers is a real estate company owned and led by Naguib Sawiris as part of his investments in Egypt and even abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2016, the company has since been a trusted player in the real estate sector not only in Egypt but also in Cyprus, Iraq, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Greece, and Grenada.<\/p>\n<p>In Egypt, the company has implemented its projects in key significant areas such as\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/area\/new-cairo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Cairo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/area\/6th-of-october-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6 October<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/area\/el-sheikh-zayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Sheikh Zayed<\/a>, <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/area\/el-sheikh-zayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> N<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/area\/north-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orth<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/area\/north-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its short number of years in the market, Ora Developers was able to establish itself as a strong player in the Egyptian real estate market with high-end, branded projects that include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/compound\/274-zed-el-sheikh-zayed-ora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ZED in El Sheikh Zayed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/compound\/345-zed-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ZED East in New Cairo City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/compound\/877-ora-new-zayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solana Compound in New Zayed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/compound\/1990-tulwa-owest\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tulwa-Owest in 6th of October City<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/compound\/530-silversands-north-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silversands in Sidi Heneish, North Coast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/compound\/151-pyramid-hills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pyramid Hills in 6th of October City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/compound\/1077-solana-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solana East in New Cairo City<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123957\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123957\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-123957 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects.webp\" alt=\"Ora Projects\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects.webp 1080w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-696x696.webp 696w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-1068x1068.webp 1068w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-420x420.webp 420w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09112739\/Ora-Projects-840x840.webp 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ora Projects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It would be too unfair to talk about Naguib Sawiris&#8217;s biography from the scope of business and entrepreneurship while leaving out the humane side, so let us tell you about it in the next section.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/blog\/69641-el-gouna-owner-and-the-dream-that-came-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Gouna Owner And The Dream That Came True<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Naguib Sawiris&#8217;s Humane Side: Charity &amp; Heritage<\/h3>\n<p>Aside from business, Naguib Sawiris has left his imprint on many development fields, including charity, saving heritage, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Sawiris is one of the founders and chairmen of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development and a major contributor to this foundation. Sawiris and his family have created this foundation to contribute to development in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The Sawiris Foundation achieves this by increasing employment opportunities and by providing citizens with the opportunity to build productive lives by utilizing their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Sawiris Foundation\u2019s programs in the field of education, for example, many university students were granted scholarships in outstanding universities.<\/p>\n<p>As for keeping heritage, Naguib Sawiris contributed huge sums to preserving world heritage through projects to restore Islamic and Coptic temples and archaeological and historical sites in various parts of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Culturally, and in the field of literature, Sawiris recently launched an annual award for Egyptian colloquial poetry in memory of the well-known poet, Ahmed Fouad Negm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123959\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123959\" src=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation.webp\" alt=\"Sawiris Foundation\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation.webp 1440w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-150x84.webp 150w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-600x338.webp 600w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-696x392.webp 696w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-1392x783.webp 1392w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-1068x601.webp 1068w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09113107\/Sawiris-Foundation-747x420.webp 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sawiris Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Comments on Naguib Sawiris&#8217;s Journey: His Awards<\/h3>\n<p>Naguib Sawiris is an exceptional public figure; his success story, his charismatic traits, and his offering as a great role model for youth are truly one of a kind.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been granted many awards to recognize his efforts and his hard-working traits.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in 2006, he was awarded the prestigious \u201cSitara-e-Quaid-e-Azam\u201d award by General Pervez Musharraf. It was for the services he rendered to Pakistanis in the fields of telecommunication, investments, and social sector work.<\/p>\n<p>Later in July 2011, Sawiris was granted the Honor of Commander of the Order of the \u201cStella della Solidariet\u00e0 Italiana\u201d (Star of Italian Solidarity)with the rank of Commander. That was for his outstanding contribution to the Italian economy.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he was awarded the French Legion d&#8217;Honneur, with the rank of Commander, which is the highest honor awarded by the French Republic. That was in recognition of outstanding efforts in serving France.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Sawiris was granted an honorary doctorate of Law by Handong Global University of South Korea in 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123966\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123966\" src=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers.webp\" alt=\"Zed East by Ora Developers\" width=\"1000\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers.webp 1000w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers-300x185.webp 300w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers-768x473.webp 768w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers-150x92.webp 150w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers-600x370.webp 600w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers-696x429.webp 696w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers-682x420.webp 682w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers-356x220.webp 356w, https:\/\/prod-blog-images.cooingestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/09115429\/Zed-East-by-Ora-Developers-712x440.webp 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zed East by Ora Developers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Final Thoughts<\/h3>\n<p>Arriving at the end of our article, you have by now known all about Naguib Sawiris&#8217;s biography and real estate.<\/p>\n<p>His inspiring story holds many ups and downs, but it highlights the value of perseverance, resistance, and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Naguib Sawiris is not just a businessman. Rather, he is an entrepreneur, real estate developer, heritage saver, and social development enhancer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s your turn to write your part of the story. So, don&#8217;t forget that you can find your new home at any of Ora Developers&#8217; compounds(or any other compound of your preference) by clicking on the WhatsApp button to get the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nawy.com\/\">Nawy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0FAQs<\/h3>\n<h4>Who is Naguib Sawiris?<\/h4>\n<p>An Egyptian businessman and entrepreneur<\/p>\n<h4>How many kids does Naguib Sawiris have?<\/h4>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<h4>Who is the CEO of Ora Developers?<\/h4>\n<p>Naguib Sawiris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the word &#8220;success&#8221; mean to you? Is it being famous? Being charismatic? Loved? What if you know that the word success in the dictionary of Naguib Sawiris means resilience, perseverance, and consistency? You get this impression when reading about the biography of Naguib Sawiris and real estate. 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