It’s a mixed bag in the foreign press this morning: Egyptians’ fondness for long, casual phone calls was an inspiration for Yang Tao, founder of the voice-based social media app Yalla, which launched in the Middle East in 2016, the Financial Times wites. Reuters has a video on Twitter about one of many women mesaharateya in the capital city. The National has a puff piece about Bedouin in Sinai during Ramadan, while DesignTAXI notes that Harvard University’s Digital Giza Project has online 3D tours of the Giza Pyramids.
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