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Founded by Hashem Montasser and Hany Bassiouny and named after The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, The Lighthouse offers its customers a curated experience where they can eat, shop and socialise under one roof.

The name is therefore a subtle nod to Virginia Woolf and members of the Bloomsbury Group, who gathered for company, conversation, and the refueling of creative energy. The founders were inspired when they discovered that Woolf and her fellow members such as E.M Forster and John Maynard Keynes gathered over “lingering breakfasts” and “painting lunches,” indications how central fresh, well-prepared dishes were to the way they socialised — and a principal tenet of The Lighthouse’s own philosophy.

On a more personal note, Hashem’s late mother Dr Malak Hashem, an English Literature professor at Cairo University, wrote her thesis on Virginia Woolf, author of the seminal novel ‘To The Lighthouse.’ So The Lighthouse is, in many ways, a tribute to Dr Malak and her generation of trailblazing women who stood tall as beacons of curiosity and knowledge production.
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