Watani International: On to third decade
On a cold Cairo winter day, with the sun shyly and hesitatingly showing up only every now and then, I ...
Tag: Youssef Sidhom
Good bye proper Arabic?
A firm stand taken earlier this month by the Speaker of Egypt’s House of Representatives Hanafy al-Gebali is worth consideration ...
Basilique flyover: Sacrificing heritage to traffic?
Lest any official should say that nothing can ever please us Egyptians, let me start by spelling out my appreciation ...
No postal addresses in new urban communities
We live in an era in which technology takes us all by storm; every aspect of modern-day life is swamped ...
Awaiting resolution in 2021: Plastics use and waste
Egypt’s public and media have been attentively and appreciatively following the activities of the new House of Representatives. These activities ...
Tuk tuk and minivan: Issues carried into 2021
Some may think that I have run out of topics to write about, so am going back to my old ...
Rental law for non-residential housing: More luggage carried into 2021
The bill for amending the old rental law for non-residential housing units is expected to have a huge impact on ...
Luggage we carry into 2021
Last year, I started 2020 with reviewing Egyptian issues that had not been resolved in 2019 and had thus to ...
A New Year prayer
As we step into a new year and prepare to celebrate the Feast of the Nativity on 7 January, it ...
Would Egypt give Tarek Shawki up to UNESCO?
It is self-evident that the nomination of an Egyptian to a leading position in a prominent international institution is for ...
Watani turns 62
Today’s issue of Watani concludes the paper’s 62 years on the Egyptian press arena. Sixty-two years ago, on 21 December ...
Coronavirus is here to stay
As 2020 draws to a close, people are exchanging wishes willing it to go away and take with it the ...
Can history be selectively dismissed?
Should only the brighter aspects or incidents of national history be acknowledged and highlighted, or should every part of that ...
In need of party reform
Egypt is currently in the process of giving birth to a new House of Representatives which would take up its ...
Reading into 17th decision for legalising churches
Under the title “Back to legalising unlicensed churches”, I wrote earlier this month reviewing the latest decision by the Cabinet ...
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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