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Problems on holdEven though the Problems on Hold column is usually dedicated to thorny issues or concerns, the issue I ...
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Watani’s week of reckoning
For the first time since Watani was founded in 1958 and since Watani Corporation for Printing and Publishing was established ...
A call for Watani readers: To save the lives of Andrew and Botros
When I first learned about the case of the twins Andrew and Botros who suffer from the Laron Syndrome I ...
Man for all seasons Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995)
Antoun Sidhom’s life spanned some 80 years, a good part of the 20th century. This was a time ...
Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995)
What he said and what was said about him Saturday 2 May marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Antoun ...
Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995): Man for all seasons
Antoun Sidhom’s life spanned some 80 years, a good part of the 20th century. This was a time which ...
Fundamentalists impose their conditions
Problems on holdA month ago I wrote about the predicament of the church of the Holy Virgin in the village ...
Farewell Laila
Laila al-Hinnawy (1939 - 2015) On Wednesday 18 March Watani paid its last respects to the masterful journalist who was a ...
The Mama of Watani
Watani International commemorates her pioneering journalist Laila al-Hinnawy (1939 - 2015), who passed away on 18 March, by reprinting an ...
Laila al-Hinnawy (1939 – 2015) ..Years with Mama Laila
To commemorate Laila al-Hinnawy, Nadia Barsoum who since 1987 has been working closely with Ms Hinnawy and was her veritable ...
Centenary of a great man
The year 2015 marks 100 years on the birth of Watani founder Antoun Sidhom and 20 years on his death It’s ...
Problems on hold Equal inheritance for men and women
I continue today the reading I last week started in Fathy Ragheb Hanna’s Ahkaam wa Qawaid al-Mawareeth wal-Wassiya Wifqan li-Ahkaam ...
Needed: inheritance law for Christians
Problems on hold I have repeatedly broached the issue of the inheritance of Christian women and the double injustice inflicted upon ...
Problems on hold Time to confront terrorism
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is now back home in Egypt to deal with the outcome of the deadly terrorist attacks against ...
Anba Mikhail (1921 – 2014) Watani’s secret friend
Problems on hold Last Sunday Watani published a special issue in tribute to the great Metropolitan of Assiut Anba Mikhail ...
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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