To speed up legalising churches: President’s intervention needed
Problems on hold The date 28 October 2018 marked 13 months on the start of activity of the Cabinet-affiliated committee ...
Tag: Youssef Sidhom
Watani’s second challenge
Problems on hold On 15 April 2018, I wrote under the title “Watani faces the challenge”, citing the financial challenges ...
Question to Church, Government, Parliament: How about the Family Law for Christians?
Problems on hold In its issue of 14 October 2018, Watani printed a report on the legislative agenda of the ...
Party reform: Task for Parliament or President?
Problems on hold Egypt’s House of Representatives has embarked on its fourth legislative round in its five-year term, following which ...
The art of differing
Problems on hold Granted, it is impossible for the world to separate itself from US politics. I do not mean ...
Timeshare answer to North Coast dilemma
Problems on hold In two Watani editorials on 9 and 23 September 2018, I tackled the seasonal dilemma of Egypt’s ...
Answer to North Coast dilemma
Problems on hold Two weeks ago, on Sunday 9 September, I tackled Egypt’s North Coast dilemma under the title “North ...
North coast issue revisited … again
Problems on hold The southern Mediterranean coast that forms Egypt’s northern border stretches some 1000 kilometres long and forms Egypt’s ...
The world holds its breath on Trump
Problems on hold Ever since Donald Trump became President of the United States of America, political observers and analysts ...
Legalising unlicensed churches: In 11 months: 220 approvals out of 3730 required
Problems on hold When the long-awaited Law for the Building and Restoration of Churches went into effect on 28 September ...
Four working days a week: Is this what Egypt needs?
Problems on hold It is an inescapable fact that Egypt is today in the throes of a laborious struggle to ...
Well said, Ashraf Abdel-Moneim
Problems on hold As a rule, I do not reprint opinion pieces that were printed in other newspapers, even ...
Watani remembers Safwat Abdel-Halim
The recent departure of Safwat Abdel-Halim (1932 – 2018), the late Managing Editor of Watani, set off a torrent ...
Minya independent republic thwarts law, and thrives
Problems on hold · Today I go back to broaching an issue I have repeatedly tackled, for what is ...
Prime Minister unfamiliar with Christian feasts?
Problems on hold On 2 July 2018, the Official Gazette’s issue 26 bis was published. It included the Prime ...
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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