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.

Fatah Official: We Have Not Ruled Out Military Options

By | 2014-03-14T14:02:39-04:00 March 14th, 2014|News|

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party is not ruling out a violent struggle against Israel, a senior member of the party recently said.   “None of us, especially in Fatah, has ruled out the military options,” declared Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki in an interview which aired on February 26 on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar

Leave The Jews Alone

By | 2014-03-14T13:12:43-04:00 March 14th, 2014|Op-Eds|

800,000 Muslims have fled their homes – and there’s widespread bloodshed and looting with an entire nation’s Muslims apparently in danger. According to an Associated Press report “One Muslim who fell off a truck was quickly killed by the mob. Muslim women who could not get on the trucks tried to hand their children to

‘There Are Thousands of Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Gaza’

By | 2014-03-13T16:37:34-04:00 March 13th, 2014|News|

The head of a Gaza-based jihadist group warned on Sunday that there are several thousand Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists in Gaza.   Speaking to The Associated Press (AP), the terror leader, Abu Bakir al-Ansari, said that these terrorists pose a formidable threat to both Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers.   Al-Ansari described a movement that is larger

Abbas: 5 Million ‘Refugees’ Must be Allowed into Israel

By | 2014-03-13T15:59:47-04:00 March 13th, 2014|News|

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas clarified his positions regarding the issues of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and the so-called “right of return” of Palestinian “refugees” in an appearance broadcast by PA TV, translated by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute).   It is worth watching, for anyone who harbors any doubts regarding

Egypt Deports Women Activists who Tried to Enter Gaza

By | 2014-03-13T15:26:22-04:00 March 13th, 2014|News|

Egypt on Friday deported dozens of women activists who had flown in to Cairo but been barred from entering the country in their bid to reach neighboring Gaza, an airport official told AFP.   About 100 women, most of them from Europe and the United States, had hoped to enter the Palestinian enclave through Egypt's

Abbas: There’s ‘No Way’ We’ll Recognize Israel

By | 2014-03-13T14:58:07-04:00 March 13th, 2014|News|

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stood his ground on Friday and reiterated that he will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state.   Speaking to youth activists of his Fatah party and quoted by The Associated Press (AP), Abbas unequivocally declared that there is "no way" he will recognize Israel as a Jewish state

Saudi Arabia Blacklists Muslim Brotherhood and Syrian Jihadists

By | 2014-03-13T04:12:07-04:00 March 13th, 2014|News|

Saudi Arabia on Friday blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood and two Syrian jihadist groups as terrorist organizations, ordering citizens fighting abroad to return home within 15 days or face imprisonment, AFP reports.   The move represents a major escalation against the Brotherhood of deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi and indicates rising concern in Riyadh over the

Saudi Provides Inside Look at Syrian Rebel War

By | 2014-03-13T03:55:59-04:00 March 13th, 2014|Media|

A testimony from Syria has shed light on the inter-rebel civil war that has been raging in the country.   In a recent TV interview, former Saudi Internet celebrity Suleiman Al-Subaie, known as “Sambateek,” recounted how he became involved in Jihad in Syria after his brother was killed there.   Al-Subaie, who later turned himself

Egypt Blocks 100 Female Activists On Way to Gaza

By | 2014-03-13T03:31:33-04:00 March 13th, 2014|News|

A group of 100 European and American activist women were stopped by Egypt on Thursday, as they attempted to cross Sinai to spend International Women's Day on Saturday in Gaza.   Egyptian authorities stopped the women at the Cairo airport. Among the group, Northern Irish Nobel Laureate and anti-Israel activist Mairead Maguire was already deported

Egypt to Strip 13,800 Palestinians of Citizenship

By | 2014-03-13T03:04:17-04:00 March 13th, 2014|News|

Egyptian newspaper Alyoum Alsaba has reported that Egyptian security forces intend to take away the citizen status of 13,757 Palestinians because of their support for Hamas. The report is quoted by Israeli daily Maariv.   The Palestinians affected by the move received citizenship during the year in which Islamist Mohammed Morsi was in power. It