Reimagining time through place.
We do not build to fill space. We build to give time its proper shape.Naguib Sawiris · Founder & Chairman
One idea, expressed in many places.
ORA was founded in 2016 by Naguib Sawiris with a singular commitment: to imagine and deliver developments whose value compounds quietly over decades — the way a fine watch keeps faith with time.
Across Egypt, the UAE, Iraq, Pakistan, Cyprus, Greece, and Grenada, that commitment has taken shape in master-planned communities, coastal sanctuaries, and city-scale destinations. Each is grounded in geometry, restraint, and the unhurried hospitality of well-designed public space.
We work with architects, landscape designers, and master-planners who share our preference for clarity over decoration. Our buildings are not the show; the life that happens around them is.
Four ideas that shape everything we build.
Geometry & Restraint
Designs grounded in proportion, light, and the quiet authority of simple forms — never noise, never decoration for its own sake.
Community First
Every master plan begins with the public realm — the walks, the gathering places, the gardens — before a single residence is drawn.
Time-Tested Value
We build assets that age well. Materials, infrastructure, and detailing are chosen for the second and third generation as much as the first.
Local, Then Global
Each destination is rooted in its place — its climate, its culture, its rhythm — while drawing on the standards of an international group.
With passion we build, with commitment we develop, and with heart we deliver.Naguib Sawiris · Founder, ORA Developers Holding
Founded in 2016, ORA was envisioned as a multinational developer that treats every destination as a complicated luxury timepiece — engineered for harmony, designed for everyday joy.
From New Cairo to the North Coast, our work spans residential quarters, coastal resorts and considered urban districts across Egypt, the UAE, Iraq and beyond.
Awarded for the way we build.
Our work has been recognised across the region for design, sustainability, and community-led master-planning.
Best Mixed-Use Development
Africa & Arabia Property Awards — for ZED East's community-led master-plan.
Sustainable Project of the Year
Cityscape Egypt Awards — recognising water and energy strategy across the portfolio.
Residential Development of the Year
Egypt Real Estate Awards — for the delivery of ZED Sheikh Zayed.
Coastal Resort of the Year
North Coast Property Awards — for the opening of Silversands.
The people behind ORA.
A focused group of operators, architects, and community-builders who have spent careers shaping how cities live.
Naguib Sawiris
Egyptian businessman and philanthropist whose four-decade career in telecommunications, infrastructure, and real estate established the strategic foundation of the ORA group.
Wafaa Lotaief
A major participant and contributor to the establishment, start-up, growth and evolution of ORA into a global development and hospitality conglomerate over a record span of 6 years.
Lana Sawiris
Lana leads the global brand vision and commercial strategy across the group.
Haitham Abdelazim
Responsible for ensuring day-to-day operations are aligned with the company's values.
Sherif Hany
Overseeing the group's Human Capital strategic management — Talent Management, Total Rewards, HR Policies and Employee Relations.
Sherif Al Tamboly
Oversees the group's capital structure, investor relations, and financial governance across all seven countries of operation.
A decade of building, country by country.
Naguib Sawiris establishes ORA Developers with the long-term ambition of building across multiple geographies.
ZED Sheikh Zayed launches in west Cairo — the group's first integrated mixed-use destination.
Silversands launches on Egypt's North Coast, introducing the group's first beachfront destination.
Projects underway in Pakistan, Cyprus, and the UAE — the group becomes operational across four continents.
15+ communities, 50,000+ residents, and a unified group identity reimagining time for the next decade.
Built for the long arc.
Every ORA development integrates passive design, efficient infrastructure, and ecological care from the master-plan onward — not as added features, but as the starting position. Through the Sawiris Foundation and local partnerships, our corporate social responsibility extends that long-term view to the communities around us — in education, employment, and care.
Energy-conscious design
Solar integration, high-performance envelopes, and shading strategies tuned to each climate.
Water as infrastructure
Greywater reuse, drought-tolerant landscape, and lagoon ecosystems engineered for biodiversity.
Mobility & walkability
Master-plans prioritize the pedestrian — 15-minute community standards, generous shade, narrow vehicle corridors.
Community well-being
Sports clubs, cultural venues, and primary schools integrated into the original master-plan, not retrofitted.
Find Your Place in Time.
Consult with our experience curators to find the development that matches your rhythm.