The luggage we carry into 2020
Yesterday, 21 December, coincided with Watani’s 61st anniversary. Today, we embark on our 62nd year with aspirations for a new ...
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Should it take 11 years and three lives for government to move?
Problems on hold Readers of Watani will find in the next issue a story detailing the horrific incident that took ...
Samira Sidhom (1925 – 2019): The woman behind the man and the paper
Today 6 December marks the arbaeen of my mother Samira Kamel Guirguis (1925 - 2019), wife of Antoun Sidhom (1915 ...
Heliopolis sacrificed for New Capital?
Problems on hold On 25 September 2019 I wrote about the great, ambitious construction project that took unawares the ...
You can never be too cautious
Problems on hold It is an editor-in-chief’s responsibility to establish the measures for journalistic performance he expects his editorial ...
So little over so much lies ahead
Problems on hold On 3 November 2019, the Prime Minister issued Decision 35 for 2019 which conditionally approved the ...
French military campaign against Egypt (1798 – 1801): Military versus enlightenment
Problems on hold In my editorial of last week, which centred on the opening of the Suez Canal for ...
Suez Canal: 150 years on
Problems on hold The date 17 November marks 150 years on the opening of the Suez Canal in ...
Church gives up site as State relinquishes authority
Problems on hold The story of the Coptic Catholic Church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in the village of Higaza Qibli ...
Tribute to Motherhood
It’s not Mother’s Day; it’s not Women’s Day; our reader may wonder why are we dedicating this article to Motherhood? ...
Rains… and official lessons in geography, history and climate change
Problems on hold Since I am a firm believer that Egypt is on the right track to reform and development, ...
Police heroism vs police tyranny
Problems on hold When Egyptians applaud the honourable dedication of their security apparatus in guarding the nation’s internal front against ...
Legalisation of churches: What it entails
Problems on hold In last week’s editorial, the second in a three-episode detailed reading into the legalisation of unlicensed churches ...
Reading into legalisation of unlicensed churches
Problems on hold The date 28 September 2019 marks two years since a specially-tasked Cabinet committee began looking into ...
Tuk tuk vs minivan: Sins of the government
Problems on hold As part of official efforts towards reform, Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli instructed the government earlier this ...
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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