Copts stay at home following the Manqabad sectarian attacks
Sectarian violence erupted last Thursday evening in the village of Baheeg in Manqabad, Assiut, in Upper Egypt, following a rumour ...
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Manqabad Copts under attack
Sectarian violence erupted Thursday evening in the village of Baheeg in Manqabad, Assiut, in Upper Egypt, following a rumour that ...
Farshout Copts attacked
The Copts in the town of Farshout in Qena, Upper Egypt were the victims of attacks by a several-hundred strong ...
Young Copts away from home
Several decades ago many Coptic families decided to emigrate, setting off a great exodus. Yet although they were scattered all ...
Copts in the Egyptian press 33-456
Our reading in the Cairo press this month takes us to the trial of Alex W. in Dresden, Germany. Last ...
Sadat in the memory of Copts … Days of Pain and Triumph; Robeir al-Faris;
“When a ruler violates the rights of his people, he creates a foe out of them. Then the basic power ...
Problems 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, ...
Copts in the Egyptian press
WATANI International4 October 2009Our media round up this month takes us to the talk show Nahnu huna (We’re here) aired ...
Copts in the Egyptian press
WATANI International6 September 2009 Our reading in the Cairo press this month takes us to the Cairo independent daily al-Dostour ...
Copts in the Egyptian press 30-442
WATANI International9 August 2009 Our reading in the Cairo press this month takes us to the tragic incident of Marwa ...
Copts in the Egyptian press 29-438
Our reading in the Cairo press this month takes us to two letters sent by readers to the weekly State-owned ...
Copts in the Egyptian press 28-433
WATANI International31 May 2009 Four years ago, the daily, State-owned Rose al-Youssef was the first national newspaper to dedicate a page ...
Helping Australia’s Copts
The new Australian Christian Family Association (ACFA) is a not-for-profit organisation formed to address the growing need of Coptic Christians ...
Copts in the Egyptian press 25-420
A recent Sout al-Umma headline read “Muslim women in Pope Shenouda’s prisons”. Sout al-Umma is the Cairo weekly independent paper ...
Gruesome attack against Copts in Sohag
As most of Egypt was busy with the parliamentary elections, a gruesome attack took place against the Copts in the ...
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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