abstract:El Watan (Arabic:الوطن, English: the homeland) is an independent French-language newspaper in Algeria. The paper was founded in 1990 after Omar Belhouchet and nineteen colleagues left the FLN government-owned newspaper El Moudjahid (English: "The Holy Warrior").
An elWatan article reported that US ambassador to Egypt Ann Paterson is meeting all political parties in Egypt to convince them to accept the coming legislative elections rushed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
As a result, Nadjia Bouaricha writes in ElWatan , "national public opinion has been the hostage of foreign media outlets distilling snippets of information gleaned from this or that news agency or this or that often doubtful source".