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The Pope mourns the Sheikh
WATANI International14 March 2010 Last Wednesday, Pope Shenouda III lamented the departure of Sheikh Tantawi in a short, moving...
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Ashraf Mansour, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German University in Cairo (GUC), was recently decorated with the...
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In Alex and Alamein
On his recent official visit to Egypt Italy’s president Giorgio Napolitano, joined with his wife, opened a laboratory for restoring...
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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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