When will officials drive their own cars?
I wrote earlier this year about the pains of traffic in Egypt. I highlighted a number of flaws, among them ...
Tag: Problems on hold
Cabinet committee for legalising unlicensed churches: Thank you!
With comfort and appreciation, I welcome the Prime Minister’s decision, announced on 8 April 2020, to approve legalisation of the ...
Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995): 25 years on
This is the 777th article in the “Problems on hold” series, and it coincides with the date on which my ...
Egyptians and COVID-19: The unacceptable
Today I go back to the topic I had broached two weeks ago under the title “Coronavirus and the unethical”, ...
Coronavirus and the unethical
Thoughts race through my mind as I observe the development and outcome of the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in Egypt and ...
COVID-19 church closure means waning circulation for Watani
In my last editorial I prayed that God would support Egypt in her battle against coronavirus COVID-19. I commended the ...
May God grant us wisdom as we confront coronavirus
Everywhere in the world, everyone is praying for God’s mercy to save humanity from the scourge of coronavirus COVID-19. People ...
Nature to blame? No, Man!
Yesterday was 21 March, the day we say goodbye to winter and welcome spring. This last winter was a fierce, ...
Editor-in-Chief restricts freedom?
Journalism is a mission of credibility and responsibility. The mission involves the candid reporting of facts and events with the ...
Update on Coptic issues carried into 2020
As 2019 drew to a close, I reviewed a number of Coptic issues that had not been resolved during the ...
Editor-in-chief stays or leaves
In what has become a yearly tradition, Watani’s editorial family was last Monday invited to participate in a referendum ...
The plastics predicament carried into 2020
How easy to take up an issue that has long irked our society, condemn its painful consequences, and call for ...
Egypt traffic chaos carried into 2020
Among the articles I have been writing on national problems that were never resolved in 2019 and thus wait ...
Chronic problem carried into 2020
Starting last December, I embarked on a series of editorials on “luggage we carry into 2020”. They tackled issues ...
2020.. More luggage to carry
Last September, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced a plan to replace Egypt’s notorious, unlicensed, unsafe tuk tuks with safe, licensed ...
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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