Rains in Egypt: Failure déjà vu
In Egypt, the seasonal rain days and the regions of rainfall are well known; everyone is aware of the nawaat charts. ...
Tag: Problems on hold
Honouring our antiquities
We have lived through difficult times during which we witnessed general disrespect and poor appreciation for Egypt’s antiquities inside their ...
Metaverse world: Dazzling or horrifying?
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, last October announced that the name of his company which includes more than ...
New Administrative Capital: Focusing on urban, missing out on human?
During a meeting that took place earlier this month between President Sisi, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Minister of Housing ...
Who is usurping Sudan’s Revolution?
The world is holding its breath in anticipation of how the situation in Sudan would develop; the full dimensions of ...
The Basilique: a gem to treasure
The magnificent church of the Basilique Notre Dame d'Héliopolis - Our Lady of Heliopolis, known simply as “The Basilique”, was ...
Delivery industry opens job opportunities
Under the title “E-commerce replaces traditional shopping”, I wrote last September about this growing trend in the Egyptian market. https://en.wataninet.com/opinion/editorial/e-commerce-replaces-traditional-shopping/36639/ ...
Will legislative agenda include Egyptian Family Law?
The lack of any sense of time in case of urgency seems to be among the list of idiosyncratic traits ...
New legislation for old rentals?
As per presidential decrees issued by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi last September in accordance with article 115 of the Constitution, the ...
National Strategy for Human Rights: Between facts and aspirations
The launching on 11 September 2021 of the Egyptian National Strategy for Human Rights (NSHR) marked a long awaited historic ...
E-commerce replaces traditional shopping
The winds of change and development are surely and relentlessly blowing; nothing remains unchanged, as proved by so much in ...
Print journalism struggles for survival
There is a lot of talk these days about print journalism and how it suffers owing to declining revenues and ...
Waste recycling: When actions belie words
The garbage predicament, or rather disaster, has become a scourge threatening Egyptians, a dilemma of huge proportions and intertwined causes ...
Legalising an undoable process
A law was passed in Egypt a year ago to regulate the parking of vehicles on streets, following which the Minister ...
Egypt’s unlicensed churches: 52.5% legalised in 46 months
I have taken it upon myself to closely monitor the file of legalising the 3730 unlicensed churches and Church affiliated ...
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.
-----------------------------------------------------------
27 Abdel Khalek Tharwat st, Downtown, Abdeen,Cairo
00202-23927201
00202-23935946