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Ramadan in Egypt’s memory
he Muslim holy month of fasting, Ramadan, began on Saturday 22 August. Egypt turned the clocks back a month early...
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Happy day, Mothers!
Caption: Painting by Farouq Wagdy WATANI International22 March 2009 Yesterday, the first day of Spring, Egypt celebrated Mothers Day. Even though...
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WATANI International8 March 2009 The Mulid al-Nabi (Birth of the Prophet) is the feast on which Muslims hold observance of...
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Commemorating the October War
WATANI International4 October 2009Next Tuesday Egypt marks Armed Forces Day, commemorating the 6 October War when, in 1973, the Egyptian...
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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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