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Leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press: <\/strong>Egypt\u2019s Afcon victory against Morocco on Sunday got substantial ink, with France 24<\/a>, The Athletic<\/a> and the National<\/a> all delivering takes.<\/p>\n

Also getting attention:<\/strong> Egyptian online therapy startup Shezlong<\/a> is the subject of a Financial<\/a>Times<\/a> profile that looks at the company\u2019s role in reducing the stigma on mental health and improving access to care across the MENA region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press: Egypt\u2019s Afcon victory against Morocco on Sunday got substantial ink, with France 24, The Athletic and the National all delivering takes. Also getting attention: Egyptian online therapy startup Shezlong is the subject of a FinancialTimes profile that looks at the company\u2019s role in reducing the stigma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[72,316,768,162],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-543446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","tag-morocco","tag-shezlong","tag-sports","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"ce3a185c-2375-48c9-a24a-04646c026744","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[543426],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEgypt in the News: Afcon + Shezlong - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/02\/01\/egypt-in-the-news-afcon-shezlong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egypt in the News: Afcon + Shezlong\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press: Egypt\u2019s Afcon victory against Morocco on Sunday got substantial ink, with France 24, The Athletic and the National all delivering takes. 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