French Egyptian cooperation on Coptic heritage
An agreement of cooperation was recently signed by Lu’ai Saïd, Coordinator of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s (BA) Coptic Studies Programme, and ...
Tag: Egyptian
Copts are Egyptian first
The 2012 elections of the People’s Assembly (PA)—the lower house of Egypt’s Parliament—which combined the individual candidacy and slate systems, ...
Asmaa’, the first Egyptian film to tackle the suffering and
As Cairo marked World AIDS Day on 1 December, Hussein A. Gezairy, the WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, ...
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 ...
EGYPTIAN CULTURE : The Egyptian language throughout the ages
Bearing in mind the fact that written language reflects the spoken language of the different periods only to a limited ...
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 ...
A Traveler’s Experience in an Egyptian Hospital
A traveler who spent eight days in an Egyptian hospital is urging Brits to be grateful for their fantastic health ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Egyptian Academy of Art in Rome
“It is good for an artist to open up to other societies and step out of his or her own ...
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 ...
Do Egyptians married to Israeli women stand to lose their Egyptian citizenship?
It should come as no surprise that, with the Camp David Peace Accord in effect, Egyptians go to Israel for ...
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 ...
What if it was the Egyptian flag?
WATANI International 11 September 2011 The wrath which raged, and is still raging, against Israel in the Egyptian street is ...
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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