How Samih Sawiris turned a Red Sea desert into a city and built a $1.4 billion empire
Billionaires Africa | 19.05.2026 18:40
There is a moment in every Samih Sawiris story that stops people. It is not the billion-dollar valuation, not the integrated resort towns stretched across four countries, not even the Swiss alpine city he conjured from a near-empty valley in Andermatt. It is this: before any of it, he was a waiter.
