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 ...
Tag: Youssef Sidhom
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 ...
Amira Philip Matta (1948 – 2021)
Amira Philip Matta, wife of Watani’s Editor in Chief Youssef Sidhom and mother of Dina Sidhom, Executive Editor of wataninet, ...
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 ...
From Golgotha to Bir al-Abd: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing”
It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this ...
Funeral of Prince Philip (1921 – 2021): A different form of grief
On 17 April, I was among the millions worldwide who viewed the BBC’s live broadcast of the funeral of Prince ...
Egypt’s water security: Leave the baking to the baker
No one can deny Egyptians the right to be concerned about Egypt’s water security, specifically vis-à-vis the Grand Renaissance Dam ...
I took the vaccine
Last month, I twice tackled the topic of the rollout of coronavirus vaccine. I wrote of the mixed Egyptian public ...
Downtown Cairo buildings: Shiny from the outside..
Under the headline “Soliman Pasha Street and Square”, Watani prints in its Arabic issue this week the story of the ...
Journalists Syndicate elections under COVID-19
Once again, it is time for midterm elections of the Journalists Syndicate, held every two years to elect the syndicate ...
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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