A Coup or not a Coup: that is not the question
On June 30, 2013 over 30 million Egyptians from all walks of life took to the streets determined to stay ...
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The war that changed the region
Remembering the October 1973 War Despite the many years that passed; the books that have been written and the films ...
The project that wasn’t
Has the Muslim Brotherhood’s Renaissance Project been laid to rest? The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) claims that President Mohamed Mursi won ...
“To him that overcomes I will give the right to sit with me
The icon by Victor Fakhoury commemorates the Maspero victims. He has them “robed in white” (Rev 7: 9) with red-blood ...
The number that brings on a headache
Cornelis Hulsman speaks to Watani about the Copts in Egypt, whose number, according to a former Egyptian official is…the number ...
Soap and Water: A Cleaning That Can Stave Off the Virus
It sounds so simple as to be innocuous, a throwaway line in public-health warnings about swine flu. But one of ...
The splendour that is Coptic
At the outset of this century l’Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris celebrated the third millennium with an exhibition on ...
It takes two to restore that lost security
WATANI International1 May 2011 Over the course of the 25 January Revolution, a host of violent, even bloody confrontations took place ...
That lost security
WATANI International20 March 2011 Amid the overwhelming turmoil which enfolds Egypt today, one recent sight on Cairo streets has been particularly ...
Computers That Read Your Emotions
WATANI International26 December 2010By the time I was 5 feet away, the computer at MIT##s Media Lab knew I was ...
Water and African affairs expert Dr Ibrahim Nasreddin tells Watani that
WATANI International 13 June 2010 The failure of Egyptian diplomacy to reach an agreement with Nile Basin nations on the ...
That legendary humour
The Coptic Cultural Centre which was established last year at the St Mark cathedral in Abbasiya, Cairo, and which is ...
Recent restorations reveal that Anba Antonious Monastery is…
WATANI International21 February 2010 Earlier this month, a large celebration was held by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) to ...
That all-enveloping religiosity
WATANI International14 February 2010 Our reading of the Cairo papers this week takes us to several major issues. The first was ...
In Egypt Barriers That Inhibit Full Inclusion of All Members of Society in the Political System
WATANI International24 January 2010– There are at least three main sets of barriers that inhibit the full inclusion of the ...
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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