Egypt shall not be brought to her knees
Problems on hold Given the perpetual provocation and harassment Egypt is subjected to, one must pray for wisdom, vision and ...
Tag: Arab Spring
25 January 2011 impacts Watani
Problems on hold It is now six years on the 25 January 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Egypt. We recall this ...
“This is our army”
It is not so long ago that social media in Egypt teemed with criticism of the Egyptian army and what ...
“We’re suffocating, but would we risk our country?”
Amid calls for nationwide protests on 11/11, Watani asks people on the street: Will you go down? No question, Egyptians are ...
Apathy or business as usual?
Even with the more or less disappointingly low turnout in the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, first indicators reveal ...
Serving which master
Twenty-four Copts contest the upcoming parliamentary elections on the lists of the Salafi al-Nour Party It looks like a replay ...
Former president Muhammad Mursi and MB leaders sentenced to death
The President who conspired against EgyptEven though the death sentence for Egypt’s former president, the Islamist Muhammad Mursi who held ...
The Great Escape
The Egyptian media called it ‘the great escape’ and the term was swiftly picked up by the public to denote ...
Up with the economy
As Egypt gears up to the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) to be held in the coastal resort of Sharm ...
Parliamentary elections .. E for elections
In six weeks time Egyptian voters—there are some 54 million of them—should head to the polls to elect their first ...
Four years on the Arab Spring in Egypt
So it’s now four years on the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, which started on 25 January 2011 with hordes ...
Pacifying the people or spoiling them?
Problems on holdIt is very obvious that President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is doing his best to meet the expectations of the ...
The balancing act
A coup or not a coup? That was the question the whole world appeared unable to answer once Egyptians rose ...
Blessing in disguise?
Problems on holdThe delay in parliamentary electionsHad the political leadership abided by the time frame set by the Roadmap, the ...
The acquittal that divided Egypt
Saturday 29 November saw Egyptians glued to their TV screens awaiting the verdict in what the media had come to ...
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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