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.

Cyber Victory: Hamas Twitter Accounts Suspended

By | 2014-01-19T20:42:43-04:00 January 19th, 2014|News|

Hamas's military wing faced a front of another kind last week: a cyber war.    Several of the terror organization's twitter accounts have been suspended since January 9 without prior notice, according to various news outlets - and Hamas is not happy about it.    The accounts: @AlqassamBrigade, @qassambrigades, @qassambrigade, and @qasambrigade - all twitter

How PA Incitement is Morally Equivalent to Anything

By | 2014-01-19T18:47:05-04:00 January 19th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Some are amazed and gladdened by the fact that the New York Times has finally—finally!!—published a piece about the Palestinian Authority incitement of Palestinian Arabs to hate Jews and to understand that they have been born to destroy to Israel, the Jewish state.   But I am very hard to please.   First, let us

Islamist Mursi, secularists charged in new case

By | 2014-01-19T18:21:43-04:00 January 19th, 2014|News|

Ousted Islamist President Mohammad Mursi and 24 others including liberal activists who opposed his rule were ordered to stand trial for insulting the judiciary on Sunday, Reuters cited legal sources as saying.   Mursi is already facing three separate trials on various charges, including inciting the murder of his opponents, conspiring with foreign groups and

Egypt is Threatened by Islamic Terror

By | 2014-01-19T11:57:19-04:00 January 19th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Egypt’s new rulers are faced with a terror problem emanating from the Sinai Peninsula, with the emergence of radical jihad groups. The US and international community must support the Egyptian regime to prevent the radical Islamic groups from turning Egypt into the next Syria.      On December 24, 2013, deadly bombings hit Mansoura, in

Kerry’s Peace Plan Will Destroy Israel Piece by Piece

By | 2014-01-19T11:31:37-04:00 January 19th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Secretary of State, John Kerry is reportedly making offers, promises and guarantees in the Middle East. Media reports indicate that "Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly shot down a proposal by US Secretary of State John Kerry to maintain Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley for ten years following the signing of an Israeli-Palestinian

Sinai Terrorists Blow Up Natural Gas Pipeline

By | 2014-01-19T11:02:59-04:00 January 19th, 2014|News|

A security official in Egypt said on Friday that terrorists have blown up a natural gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula.   According to The Associated Press (AP), the official said a strong explosion rocked a village in central Sinai called el-Riysan, after explosives were planted beneath the gas pipeline connected to cement factories in

‘Jihad in Jerusalem’

By | 2014-01-18T21:55:37-04:00 January 18th, 2014|News|

Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habash claimed Monday that Jihad fighters should not flock to Syria, but to Jerusalem - and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas applauded, according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).    "Whoever wants resistance, whoever wants Jihad, the direction for Jihad is well-known and clear," Al-Habash claimed to a crowd

‘Arab States Will Never Recognize a Jewish State’

By | 2014-01-18T21:36:36-04:00 January 18th, 2014|News|

Arab states “will never recognize Israel”, the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) foreign minister stated on Monday, according to NRG/Maariv.   Riyad al-Malki was speaking to Radio Palestine after participating in a weekend meeting in Paris between U.S. Secretary State of John Kerry and foreign ministers of the Arab League.   In the interview, al-Malki said that