About MASAR Competitions
MASAR Competitions connects architects with competitions, runs its own, and keeps every edition’s results in a permanent archive in English, Arabic and French.
A platform for architectural competitions: it lists open ones with their full terms, runs its own from brief to result, and keeps every result in an archive whose links never change.
Published competitions with their terms, deadlines and fees as stated by their sources, with a last-verified date.
In the platform’s own competitions, registration and submission happen here. For external ones, we point you to the organizer’s verified destination.
Every edition’s results and projects stay on stable pages. A new edition never replaces an older one.
“Dialogue with the Nile” is the platform’s first competition, and it returns to the Nile each edition with a new question.
MASAR Competitions grew out of MASAR 101, an education and learning platform for architecture and interior design students that started two years ago and has grown beyond its first vision.
Round 1 — Zamalek: a creative commercial project on the Nile, run under the previous name MASAR 101 with El Maghraby Design House; its winners were announced at a closing ceremony.
Round 2 — 2026: The Nile Floating Market. A competition for architecture students on the Cairo Nile front: 65 entries were submitted, the jury selected 24 Finalists, and the results are announced at the closing ceremony.
The competition archive
Ahmed El-Metwaly
Architect and entrepreneur, Ahmed El-Metwaly founded MASAR 101 and leads its next chapter as MASAR Competitions: a platform that connects architecture with learning, with competitions and with real opportunities for a new generation of architects.
At the Dialogue with the Nile 2026 closing ceremony he presents “Something Bigger Is Taking Shape”, the vision for the next chapter.
The people of Round 2
Seven jurors, five mentors, ten guests in the general sessions, and the hosts and panellists of the closing ceremony — each with a short introduction on the Round 2 page.