Former president Muhammad Mursi and MB leaders sentenced to death
The President who conspired against EgyptEven though the death sentence for Egypt’s former president, the Islamist Muhammad Mursi who held ...
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The Great Escape
The Egyptian media called it ‘the great escape’ and the term was swiftly picked up by the public to denote ...
Bomb explodes near church in Fayoum
A bomb planted near the wall of Mar-Girgis (St George) church in the village of Tamiya in Fayoum, some 100km ...
Church to be rebuilt after fanatic attempts to block it
Today, Tuesday 14 April, has seen the end to the sectarian violence in the Minya village of al-Galaa’ in Upper ...
Drive-by shooting at church in Alexandria
The church of the Archangel Raphael in the Alexandria suburb of Hanoville in Agami was the target of an attack ...
After Muslim-Coptic agreement, fundamentalist attack Copts
Around 11 men, among them a majority of Copts—the actual figures are not known—from the village of al-Galaa’ in Samalout, ...
Islamists block the erection of a licensed church
As Pope Tawadros arrived in Samalout last Sunday to begin his memorable three-day visit to Minya, Samalout Copts rushed to ...
Copt burned alive as Islamists torch restaurant
Hundreds of the townspeople of Birket al-Saba in Qouesna, Menoufiya, in the Delta turned out this morning, Friday 6 February, ...
Parliamentary elections .. E for elections
In six weeks time Egyptian voters—there are some 54 million of them—should head to the polls to elect their first ...
Four years on the Arab Spring in Egypt
So it’s now four years on the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, which started on 25 January 2011 with hordes ...
What happened to the Copts in Sirte?
Some 20 Copts have been kidnapped in Libya, with no news whatsoever about their whereabouts or whether or not they ...
In Libya: An Islamist show of force
Watani talks to Libyan activist and writer Malek al-Sharif about the Libyan predicamentLast Monday, the Libyan Islamist militia that calls ...
From Cairo with mixed feelings
On Tuesday 13 January the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo released to the media its first issue after the murderous ...
Church renovated by Armed Forces consecrated
The church of the Holy Family in Mallawi, Minya, Upper Egypt has been consecrated after a full renovation process ...
In the thick of the fight
Once Egyptians achieved the near-impossible task of ridding themselves of the oppressive Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) regime that rose to ...
Watani started as an Egyptian weekly Sunday newspaper published in Cairo. The word Watani is Arabic for “My Homeland”. The paper was founded in 1958 by the prominent Copt Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995), who strove for the establishment of a civil, democratic society in Egypt, where all Egyptians would enjoy full citizenship rights regardless of their religious denomination. To this day when Watani is published as a weekly paper and an online news site, the objective remains the same. Those in charge of Watani view this role as a patriotic all-Egyptian vocation. Special attention is given to shedding light on Coptic culture and tradition as authentically Egyptian, this being a topic largely disregarded or little-understood by Egypt’s media. Watani is deeply dedicated to offer its readers high quality, extensive, objective, credible and well-researched media coverage, with special focus on Coptic issues, culture, heritage, and contribution to Egyptian society.
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