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"Operating out of a walk-up window on Capitol Hill, Yalla—owned by Taylor Cheney—ran several fundraisers in a single week after the October 7 attacks and raised nearly $7,000 for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund; constrained by a small kitchen, Cheney put out a call on Instagram to recruit other restaurants and organized a pop-up menu (Sunday at 4 p.m.) featuring dishes from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan she visited, and she also received online blowback in the form of negative Yelp and Google reviews." - Harry Cheadle