My years with Watani
I was a sub-editor at Al-Ahram Weekly when the then editor-in-chief, Hosni Guindi, called me into his office and told ...
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In the Watani International kitchen
When Samia Sidhom, Managing Editor of Watani International, called to tell me we would be marking 10 years on Watani ...
Watani Mail
WATANI International6 September 2009 ResponseI wish to express my appreciation to the Assiut governor and those who are responsible for traffic ...
Problems on hold : Watani Braille presses on
Last week I wrote the details of Watani’s four-year-long struggle to obtain a permit from the Supreme Press Council (SPC) ...
Watani talks to Mohamed Zarie
WATANI International9 August 2009 The Arab Network for Tolerance (ANT) was founded on an initiative by a group of NGOs dismayed ...
Watani Mail
Egypt firstI applaud the words of Mustafa al-Fiqi, head of the Foreign Relations Commission in the People’s Assembly—the lower house ...
L`Anba Youhanna Qolta dans ses déclarations à Watani :
En route vers la cathédrale de la Vierge Marie des coptes catholiques à Médinet Nasr, je savais que j`allais pour ...
Watani Mail
WATANI International5 April 2009 Fooling ourselves Millions of Egyptians should ask themselves why do we persist in fooling ourselves, continuing ...
Watani Mail
WATANI International8 March 2009 When will there be change?Oppression and discrimination against Christians have become widespread in our region. In ...
Watani mail
The Financial CrisisThe financial crisis has exacted a toll on every part in the world. Democratic countries have candidly declared ...
Watani at the World Editors Forum in Hamburg
WATANI International18 October 2010Ever since I learnt to read I have been an avid reader. Where reading was concerned, I ...
Watani wishes its readers a happy, blessed feast.
WATANI International21 August 2011 Tomorrow the Coptic Church celebrates the Feast of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin. Watani ...
Watani Mail
WATANI International29 May 2011 We need that lawIf we assume that Copts use the genie in Aladdin’s lamp to build ...
Mahmoud Abu-Zeid talks to Watani about Egypt’s water problem
WATANI International27 March 2011 With the many concerns and questions on Egypt’s quota of the Nile water, and given the recent ...
Watani Mail
WATANI International7 November 2010 Copts at the mosqueA Cairo daily newspaper recently published a piece of news under the title ...
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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