“I can tell you about the future”
During a moment of boredom, I switch on the TV. Your Luck Today popped up as I browsed the channels. ...
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Anba Raphail talks to Wataninet about the first meeting
New saints and lawsFollowing a four-day convention, its first since Pope Tawadros II became patriarch in November 2012 , the ...
It’s about women’s dignity
Mona, an Egyptian woman in her thirties, received a job offer she could not refuse. The pay was beyond anything ...
Is this Egypt the President was talking about?
In his address to the nation last Saturday, President Mursi painted a rosy picture of Egypt’s economy, going so far ...
A film about the Prophet
The Media Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud has allocated a budget of EGP7 million as a first instalment for a coproduction ...
Church concerns about the Constituent Assembly
In a press conference yesterday, the Coptic Orthodox Church announced its stance regarding the current attempts to write a new ...
Youssef Sidhom talks about 400 episodes of “Problems on Hold”
Youssef Sidhom talks about 400 episodes of “Problems on Hold”
Why do we speak about the fear of God?
Some would ask why we speak about the fear of God! Have the Gospels not proclaimed to us that God ...
The truth about Darfur
WATANI International11 January 2009 Islamists and Arab nationalists have rejected the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Sudanese ...
What Confucius Can Say About China Today
When I was a young child, China was, for me, a vaguely comical Chinaman with a wispy moustache, dressed in ...
An Intimate Conversation about The Future of Coptology
While Egypt’s pharaonic history is widely known and studied, its Christian history is not as widely understood. The Coptic Orthodox ...
“Do not worry about tomorrow” (Mt 6: 34)
WATANI International19 June 2011 These words are repeated thrice in one paragraph of the Sermon on the Mount in (Mt ...
Documented facts about the church in Ain Shams
WATANI International5 June 2011 Egypt today appears to be an open field for the free circulation of a host of fallacies ...
Hopeful and Worried about Democracy Potential
WATANI International3 April 2011With Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria now all embroiled in rebellions, it is not an exaggeration to ...
Mahmoud Abu-Zeid talks to Watani about Egypt’s water problem
WATANI International27 March 2011 With the many concerns and questions on Egypt’s quota of the Nile water, and given the recent ...
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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