Editorial
Problems on hold
WATANI International 18 October 2009This article is the third in a series which tackles the grievances of the Copts of...
Read moreProblems on hold:Persecution of Copts
Last week I tackled the grievances of the Copts of the parish of Maghagha and Adawa in Minya, Upper Egypt,...
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WATANI International4 October 2009Many disputes which arise between Muslims and Copts are hastily termed “sectarian incidents” and are used to...
Read moreProblems on hold : Farouk Hosny: Victim or offender?
Tharwat Ukasha was Egypt’s Minister of Culture during the years between 1958 and 1962, then again in 1969 and 1970....
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WATANI International20 September 2009 The bombshells of fanaticism keep on dropping. Amid the explosions and moral carnage several questions beg answers....
Read moreProblems on hold : Discrimination in medical school
Rimon Saleh Adly Abdullah is a young doctor from the town of Maragha in Sohag, Upper Egypt. Abdullah earned a...
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WATANI International6 September 2009 Last week I opened a file long placed on hold, that of the Church’s response to publicity,...
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WATANI International23 August 2009 Last March the Supreme Administrative Court issued a final ruling which stipulated the right of Egyptian Baha’is...
Read moreProblems on hold : Watani Braille presses on
Last week I wrote the details of Watani’s four-year-long struggle to obtain a permit from the Supreme Press Council (SPC)...
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WATANI International9 August 2009 On 27 July the Supreme Press Council (SPC) convened and approved permits for three new periodicals: one...
Read moreProblems on hold : An insult to justice
On Tuesday 7 July 2009 the adversaries in the by-now notorious Abu-Fana case headed to the Minya prosecution office where...
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WATANI International26 July 2009The killing of the Egyptian 32-year-old woman Marwa al-Sherbini in a courtroom in Dresden, Germany, earlier this...
Read moreProblems on hold : Flagrant double standards
Several issues which recently surfaced on the public arena and preoccupied the media had one factor in common, that was...
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WATANI International12 July 2009 Throughout the past four years it has become an annual ritual for me to write, at the...
Read moreProblems on hold : Calling names
Last week’s article tackled the official move to change the names of places, frequently leading to a long-acting process of...
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