Hawaya co-founders Sameh Saleh, Tamer Saleh, Shaymaa Ali, Ali Khaled. The platform aims to help users find love while respecting cultures and traditions, providing a "solution for young, modern and confident Muslim adults who want to take the search for a life partner into their own hands". Most recently, Hawaya, a matchmaking app founded in Cairo, has expanded to the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, following its success in Egypt.
And with many people around the world staying at home, it comes as no surprise that digital platforms that help us connect are seeing a healthy boom. The coronavirus pandemic may have changed many aspects of life as we know it, but it certainly hasn't changed people's urge to make real human connections.