New Alamein City: The ultimate conciliation
Last week I wrote about the 250km stretch of Egypt’s sparsely inhabited north Mediterranean coast west of Alexandria, which had ...
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New Alamein: Answer to north coast dilemma
Egypt’s north Mediterranean coast, which extends some 500km from Alexandria to Salloum, is the choice destination of thousands of Egyptian ...
Questions and failures: New Administrative Capital
Ever since President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi announced, in the 2015 Sharm al-Sheikh Economic Forum, the plan for a mega project of ...
Achievements and failures: Egypt’s roads and traffic
As Egypt marks eight years on the massive Revolution of 30 June 2013 which overthrew the post-Arab Spring Muslim Brotherhood ...
Egypt’s education reform: Achievements and failures
I preferred to put off this editorial, which I had a mind to write a few weeks ago, till after ...
Coronavirus conspiracy?
The outbreak of coronavirus in winter 2019 leading to the COVID-19 pandemic, has given rise to unwavering endeavours by experts ...
Islamism gains ground
Given that Watani International is this year marking 20 years in print—our first issue was printed on 18 February 2001—we ...
Safety First: The absent culture
The prevalent culture in Egypt in case of emergency is to shout for help. Egyptians are notorious for lacking the ...
Public benefit vs throwing citizens in the street
Egypt’s government is going ahead full speed with an ambitious project to solve Cairo’s notorious traffic problem, through building new ...
Please mind the young investor
Last May, news circulated that the Egyptian Stock Exchange was launching a campaign to motivate young people to invest their ...
Wastewater: a future wealth
As Egypt faces the challenge to its water resources posed by the Renaissance Dam that Ethiopia has erected over the ...
Where unlicensed churches stand today
In this issue, Watani prints the details of the most recent of the Cabinet decisions that grant legality to given ...
Amira has passed
On 10 May 2021, Heaven recalled my soulmate and beloved life partner Amira. I do not say that death claimed ...
In Egypt’s passenger transport market: When demand exceeds supply
The balance between supply and demand is the only means to ensure a healthy relation between producers and consumers, hence ...
Women’s rights in a wider scope
In this issue of 9 May 2021, Watani publishes coverage of a recent initiative launched by the Coptic Orthodox Church ...
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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