Look who’s faking the facts
Problems on hold Last week Watani celebrated with pride the opening of the new Suez Canal, extensively covering the festivities that ...
Tag: Youssef Sidhom
Problems on hold .. Egypt US relations: the benefits
Last Sunday saw the “Strategic Dialogue” resume between Egypt and the US. On 30 May I had written under the ...
Not only churches, mosques too
Problems on holdCopts in Egypt have specific demands many of which remain unfulfilled. These demands pertain in the major part ...
Problems on hold Greece: Austerity by any other name
The ‘happy ending’ to the Greek economic crisis is making headlines the world over. The historic agreement signed with the ...
And you call this a taxi service?
Problems on hold Taxis are among the basic utilities that reflect the level of advancement and discipline of capitals and towns ...
Can we afford this?
Problems on hold Anyone roaming Cairo’s Downtown area cannot fail to notice the incessant work taking place on the streets. Sidewalks ...
Oops! A US court issues a death penalty
Problems on hold It was no coincidence that Watani should print on its front page last Sunday news about the sentencing ...
Problems on hold New Family Law for Christians
We were four members of the Coptic Orthodox Melli Council (community laity council) visiting Pope Tawadros II last week; the ...
Where double standards reign
Problems on hold I do not usually boil with anger when Christianity comes under attack; I believe that Christianity is sufficiently ...
One year into Sisi’s presidency
Problems on hold Coptic demands await decisions It is one year since Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi became President of Egypt and, even though one ...
Redrawing the party map
Problems on holdOnce again, President Sisi sits with a number of the heads of political parties in Egypt. Once again, ...
Problems on hold Egypt-US relations: from tepid to warm?
I was not alone in my profound disillusionment with the US administration on account of its stance against Egypt when ...
From professionalism to noble tradition
Problems on hold Founded in 1958, very few papers in Egypt can today rival Watani’s 57 years on the press scene. ...
Advance the young, advance the community
Problems on holdEven though the Problems on Hold column is usually dedicated to thorny issues or concerns, the issue I ...
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 ...
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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