It’s a soft news kinda day in the foreign press: Ayten Amin’s social drama Souad is getting glowing reviews from the Financial Times ahead of its release in UK cinemas later this week, while Luxor’s renovation of the Karnak Temple and other tourist attractions as part of a facelift before its national day in November is getting attention from Xinhua. The National, meanwhile, profiles Egyptian tennis player Mayar Sherif, who became the first Egyptian woman to make it to a Women's Tennis Association final earlier this month.

Even the regional politics news is upbeat, with Turkey saying it expects “positive developments” soon in its relationship with Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports.

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