Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

About Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

Dr. Ashraf Ramelah is the founder and president of Voice of the Copts, a human rights nonprofit organization 501 (c) (3). The organization has offices in Italy and the United States. Dr. Ramelah is dedicated to the Coptic cause and believes that his life’s mission is to speak up for the oppressed Copts who cannot speak up for themselves. When he is not meeting with political figures and policy makers, Dr. Ramelah spends his time travelling throughout the country giving talks about the Coptic issue and explaining to the West the oppression against the Copts in Egypt. Dr. Ramelah was invited to address the European Parliament (2010) and to be the keynote speaker in the Italian Parliament (2011) on the issue of Coptic persecution in Egypt. He has done various interviews with Italian newspapers and appears frequently in the Italian and Arab Media. Dr. Ramelah is a featured author at Arutz Sheva, American Thinker, Family Security Matters.com, Canada Free Press and others. Dr. Ramelah is well known to the Egyptian government due to his advocacy for the Egyptian Copts as well as for Voice of the Copts’ lawsuit against them on behalf of Muslim convert to Christianity Mr. Hegazy and his family in 2009-2010. Ashraf Ramelah also appears as an entry in the Coptic History Encyclopedia (http://www.coptichistory.org/new_page_5260.htm). Dr. Ramelah, himself a Copt, was born in Cairo, Egypt. At the age of 17, he travelled to Italy to study architecture. He graduated with a doctorate in architecture from La Sapienza – Universita’ Degli Studi di Roma,Italy. His special study is restoration of old monuments and history of architecture. His career as an architect took him to work and live in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Gabon and the USA. His personal interests are Egyptology and Coptic history in the period after the Arab invasion of Egypt in 651 AD. Voice of the Copts is dedicated to bringing fair, correct and balanced information to the entire world regarding Copts and Christians in countries with an Arab-Muslim majority.

Erdogan: Iran is Trying to Dominate the Middle East

By | 2015-03-28T17:35:47-04:00 March 28th, 2015|News|

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday lashed out at Iran, accusing it of trying to dominate the Middle East and saying its efforts have begun annoying Ankara.   The comments, quoted by Reuters, came hours after Saudi Arabia and a coalition of regional allies launched a military operation in Yemen against the Iranian-backed Houthi

Iran May be Allowed to Run Centrifuges at Secret Site

By | 2015-03-27T21:24:23-04:00 March 27th, 2015|News|

The United States is considering letting Iran run hundreds of centrifuges at a once-secret, fortified underground bunker in exchange for limits on centrifuge work and research and development at other sites, officials told The Associated Press (AP) on Thursday.   Western officials familiar with details of the negotiations told the news agency the deal would

Saudi Offensive Coincides with US Airstrikes in Tikrit

By | 2015-03-27T20:49:06-04:00 March 27th, 2015|News|

Earlier this morning, Saudi Arabia launched a joint Arab League-Pakistani operation against Houthi rebels in Yemen called Operation Decisive Storm.   The Houthis are Zaydi Shiites, who the Iranian regime has begun to back with weapons and resources in their march across Yemen. This is the third Saudi intervention against the Houthis, but the timing

Iran: Saudis ‘Will Pay for Invading Yemen’

By | 2015-03-27T20:13:39-04:00 March 27th, 2015|News|

Iran threatened Saudi Arabia on Thursday, announcing that its foray into Yemen would end up costing it dearly.   The Saudi “aggression,” said Iran's Foreign Ministry, would “complicate the crisis in the country and kill opportunities for peaceful resolution of the crisis in the Arab country. The smoke of the war in Yemen will reach

Syria Destroys Three Chemical Weapons Sites

By | 2015-03-27T17:34:41-04:00 March 27th, 2015|News|

Syria has destroyed three of its 12 chemical weapons production sites but is unable to dismantle three other facilities because of security conditions, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Wednesday in its latest report, according to AFP.   The report was released to the UN Security Council, which is overseeing efforts

Saudi Arabia Launches Operation in Yemen

By | 2015-03-27T13:49:40-04:00 March 27th, 2015|News|

Saudi Arabia and a coalition of regional allies have launched a military operation in Yemen against rebels threatening the government there, the kingdom's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday night, according to AFP.   "The operation is to defend and support the legitimate government of Yemen and prevent the radical Houthi movement from taking

ISIS Chemical Weapon Attack – in Indonesia?

By | 2015-03-25T12:30:59-04:00 March 25th, 2015|News|

Indonesian terrorists believed to have returned from fighting with the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria are suspected of being behind an attempted chlorine bomb attack in a shopping mall last month, police said Wednesday.   The homemade device - made up of several bottles and a detonator - was discovered in the mall south

Senator Feinstein is another Rabbi Wise

By | 2015-03-25T03:42:59-04:00 March 25th, 2015|Op-Eds|

In what was perhaps the most despicable, low-point of the Obama-engineered political assassination attempt against Prime Minister Netanyahu, California Senator Diane Feinstein - on CNN's State of the Union - said, "He [Netanyahu] doesn’t speak for me on this, I think it’s a rather arrogant statement. I think the Jewish community is like any other

Jihadist Syrian Rebels Capture Regime Helicopter, Take Hostages

By | 2015-03-25T02:31:41-04:00 March 25th, 2015|News|

Islamist rebels captured four crew members of a regime helicopter which crashed in the Idlib province of northwest Syria on Sunday, while a fifth serviceman was killed, a monitor said, reported AFP.   "A regime helicopter was forced to land in the region of Jabal al-Zawiya in the northwest, which is a bastion of (Al-Qaeda's