In Minya: Unruliness not sectarian incidents
Problems on hold Watani’s issue of 20 January 2019 could have very well held the headline “Special issue on the ...
Tag: Islamists
Same spot, same crime
Coptic pilgrims are killed by Islamists in an atrocious shooting on the road to the desert monastery of St Samuel ...
Terrorists on stabbing spree
The week began on a dire note. Even before the preceding weekend started, weekend in Egypt is Friday / Saturday, ...
Interior Minister: “We never asked the Copts to leave”
Problems on hold Watani is closely following up on the predicament of al-Arish Copts who last month had to flee their ...
Tales from al-Arish
They have harrowing tales to tell. The close to 200 Coptic families who fled from the face of Islamist jihadis ...
Arish Copts: Egyptian refugees in Egypt
Problems on hold “It is so sad that we should be the targets of Islamist terrorism because of our Christian identity ...
“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 ...
Why Minya?
The recent wave of attacks against Copts in Egypt has revealed that the majority of these attacks occurred in the ...
“Minya Independent Islamic Republic”
Problems on hold I have never been hasty in writing down my opinion; quite the contrary, I have always been used ...
Egypt’s brand new parliament signals
Islamist loss … Coptic gain Finally, the new parliament. Egypt can now confidently claim her feet are firm on the path ...
The bitter cup of terrorism
The Friday 13 November terrorist attack in Paris, which left some 130 civilians dead and 352 injured, left the world ...
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 ...
A hard look at Islamic terrorism
Watani talks to Osama al-Qousi, a prominent Salafi sheikh and scholar who draws the line at terrorismOsama al-Qousi, born in ...
A history of revolt
As Egypt marks two years on the 30 June Revolution, Watani notes that not many know of the first revolution ...
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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