Hany Shenouda talks to Watani about the …
After 20 years of absence, the musical ensemble al-Massreieen (The Egyptians) is back. The ensemble, led by the veteran Egyptian ...
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Watani Mail
WATANI International7 March 2010 Double standardsCopts, who face complicated procedures to build a church or even restore an old, ruined one, ...
Watani talks to Dr Gawdat Gabra
WATANI International 7 March 2010 Gawdat Gabra, former director of the Coptic Museum and visiting lecturer at Claremont University, has ...
Watani talks to Dr Kamal Abul-Magd
WATANI International28 February 2010 The recent dismissal of Ahmed Kamal Abul-Magd, vice-chairman of the government-affiliated National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), ...
Watani International’s 9th
WATANI International21 February 2010 Last Thursday Watani International marked the completion of the 9th year since it first went into print.It’s ...
WATANI International
WATANI International 14 February 2010 The young Coptic man, 23-year-old Malak Saad from the village of Teta in the mid-Delta ...
Watani Mail
Violence there and hereEveryone in Egypt was horrified at the Algerian riots and violence against Egyptian fans and interests which ...
Watani Mail
Chaos in the streetsEvery Egyptian citizen has the right to walk safely in the street. Unfortunately, recent incidents indicate there ...
Watani Mail
Soaring pricesThe winds of high prices are blowing all over our vital goods such as food, clothes, and housing. ...
The case of Baha’is
It is understandable that thorny, controversial questions concerning liberties, rights, and equality should dominate public attention and result in heated ...
Watani Mail
Corruption It is not surprising at all to hear about greedy traders or manufacturers. But when an unlicensed factory threatens ...
The predicament of Ezbet Basheer and Ezbet Abdel-Tawwab Hamzawi
Defying reason Mutual courtesies and compliments are normal, affectionate outcomes of personal friendships, but once they spill over into public ...
Book Review for Watani International
American University in Cairo Press, 2007 (Extracts of Jason Thompson’s review in Al-Ahram Weekly) An important development in cultural history ...
On the issue of Christian reconverts
Two weeks ago the Supreme Administrative Court issued a ruling allowing Christian-born converts to Islam who revert to their original ...
Watani talks to Muhammad Hashem of Merit publishing house
A few years ago a small publishing house started making its way within the cultural arena. The Merit Publishing House, ...
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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