Fast fatwa now in metro stations
Problems on hold After a long day at work, a hard working Egyptian woman rushed to the underground metro station, ...
Tag: Watani
Rule of the people by the MPs
Problems on hold The end of the second round of Egypt’s five-year-legislative-term-parliament calls for an evaluation of the performance of ...
Mind rather than might
Problems on hold My heart goes out to Egypt’s political and military leadership as they heroically confront terrorist strikes that ...
Government’s conduct on the fuel price hike: Disastrous!
Problems on hold Before I venture on a discussion of the quandary that engulfed the government’s 29 June decision to ...
Are we still being fooled?
Problems on hold Terrorism is the scourge Egypt has been vehemently and singlehandedly battling on its soil and, when compelled ...
Terrorism from inside and outside
Problems on hold Friday 26 May saw Copts in Egypt fall victim to yet another gruesome terrorist attack. This time ...
Contemplating the President’s talk
Problems on hold For the second time since he became Egypt’s President in June 2014, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ...
New director for venerable bibliotheca
Problems on hold It made me happy last week to learn that President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi approved the appointment of ...
Does Hamas believe its own charter?
Problems on hold On the first of May, Hamas surprised the world by announcing ...
New director for venerable bibliotheca
Problems on hold It made me happy last week to learn that President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi approved the appointment ...
Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995) remembered
Today, 2 May, marks 22 years on the death of Antoun Sidhom, founder of Watani in 1958.
Social media on Pope’s visit to Egypt
Problems on hold The two-day visit by Pope Francis to Egypt last weekend ...
The number of Copts: should it be announced?
Problems on hold The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) is currently conducting a census the results of which ...
The Emergency Law: Reading between the lines
Problems on hold The Palm Sunday (9 April) twin suicide bombings at the church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in the mid-Delta ...
Reliving the glorious Resurrection
Today we celebrate the Resurrection of the crucified Jesus, the Saviour who attained the reconciliation of humankind with God, saved ...
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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