“Build a church? Out of question!”
In the Minya village of Koum al-Loufi, Islamists flagrantly incite against the right of Copts to build a church For ...
Tag: fatwa
Salafi fatwa against women as engineers
The Cairo Centre for Development (CCD) has denounced the recent fatwa (Islamic legal opinion) by the Salafi preacher Sheikh Yasser ...
The newest fatwa
The most recent Salafi fatwa has aroused huge debate and ruffled not a few feathers. The fatwa, by Sheikh Yasser ...
Freedom and Justice Chair announces a fatwa committee to deal with tourism issues
Just as Mohamed al-Biltagi, a member of the higher council of the Freedom and Justice Islamic Party announced that the ...
New fatwa
A recent al-Azhar fatwa or religious edict has caused great controversy on the Cairo scene. The fatwa calls for tough ...
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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