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Shagara

Shagara is a multidisciplinary design studio that attempts to integrate vegetation into human life to This is just a glimpse of what Shagara is about.

The word shagara means tree in Arabic and it is trees that Shagara aims to grow more of, particularly inside cities, in order to protect the environment and at the same time mitigate poverty. While the environmental benefits of trees are obvious, one might question how trees can improve someone economically? One solution lies in providing poorer individuals with fruit yielding trees and plants. Th

11/02/2026

Celebrating 6 Years of Green Roof Classrooms in Egypt

On Monday, February 9th, Shagara proudly marked the 6th anniversary of its very first Green Roof Classroom in Qanater. The celebration was honored by the presence of H.E. Engineer Ayman Attia, Governor of Qalyubia, and H.E. Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt, Ambassador of Sweden to Cairo.

Launched in December 2019 with the support of the Swedish Business Community—most notably IKEA, which contributed furniture and carpentry—the project aims to alleviate overcrowding in Egyptian public school classrooms, while also promoting urban biodiversity and contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation

Since its inauguration, the Green Roof Classroom has served an accumulated 920 students to date, offering them a healthier, greener, and more inspiring environment to learn and grow.

For six years, this initiative has shown how education and sustainability can work hand in hand—transforming challenges into opportunities for future generations.

Photos from ‎Embassy of Sweden in Cairo -سفارة السويد بالقاهرة‎'s post

10/02/2026

10/02/2026

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ضيف حلقتنا مدير التنفيذي لشركة شجرة للتصميم Shagara

30/05/2025

Shagara is resuming its Job Readiness Initiative in collaboration with .architecture. The initiative provides a hands on experience to engineering and architecture students through giving them the opportunity to work with Shagara on the design and implementation of Shagara at School projects.

25/05/2025

Shagara's CEO Mohamed Abdel Samad with Zeina Soufan for Asharq Bloomberg. The talk discussed Shagara Green Roof Classrooms project and the current collaboration with GIZ Egypt that aims to build Green Learning Spaces in 5 technical schools. It also mentioned steps taken to expand to KSA after Shagara's partnership with Sangha

09/12/2024

النباتات ولا الدشات؟

Plants vs satellite dishes!

01/12/2024

12/10/2024

The CEO of Shagara will be giving a public lecture at Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering this Monday. Hosted by the Department of Architecture, the lecture is open to all engineering and architecture students.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn about our Green Roof Classrooms project and explore internship opportunities through Shagara's Job Readiness initiative.

15/09/2024

The African Centre for Cities and the Urban Futures Studio at have posted a case study on Shagara at School Green Roof Classrooms at infrahub.africa

You can access the case study after the link below

https://www.infrahub.africa/case-studies/shagara-at-school