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.

Zero Problems in Turkey, Just One Murdered Police Chief

By | 2014-01-03T12:33:06-04:00 January 3rd, 2014|Op-Eds|

Turkish minister's sons were accepting Iranian money with their fathers' willing consent. Turkey is approaching civil war.   Turkish Prime Minister  Erdogan's Inspector Clouseau-like Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will be infamously remembered for coining the PM's  "Zero Problems" foreign policy.  As a rule of thumb, it was simple: appease Iran at all costs, and abuse

Egypt: 96 artifacts missing from museum

By | 2014-01-03T12:10:07-04:00 January 3rd, 2014|Archeology and History|

Nearly a hundred small artifacts, some dating back to the time of the pharaohs, have gone missing from a museum in southern Egypt, officials said Wednesday.   The Ministry of Antiquities said 96 artifacts, mostly small figurines and beads, disappeared from the Aswan Museum's storehouse.   Employees noticed a number of artifacts missing, the statement

Israel’s Legal Sovereignty in Palestine

By | 2014-01-03T11:39:21-04:00 January 3rd, 2014|Op-Eds|

Interview with Dr. Jacques Gauthier, non-Jewish legal researcher: "I have spent 20 years investigating the legal aspects of sovereignty concerning Jerusalem."   “Declarations relating to the status of Jerusalem should clearly distinguish between the legal aspects of the issue and political claims. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and other political leaders frequently employ baseless legal

Hamas Planned Church Bombings on Christmas

By | 2014-01-03T03:32:07-04:00 January 3rd, 2014|Reports|

Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood planned a series of bombings at Egyptian churches, according to a report in the Kuwaiti paper Al-Watan, according to Channel 10 news.   According to the report, the attacks were to take place on Christmas. Terrorists in Sinai had succeeded in gathering explosives for the planned attack.   Egyptian intelligence

PA: Diplomat Killed in ‘Work Accident,’ Not a Terror Attack

By | 2014-01-03T01:38:42-04:00 January 3rd, 2014|News|

Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian Authority ambassador to the Czech Republic, was not killed in a terror attack, but by what appeared to be a “work accident,” PA Foreign Minister Ri'ad al-Maliki said Thursday. Al-Maliki released details that are currently known about the death of al-Jamal, who died on Wednesday in an explosion that occurred when

Egypt: Tear Gas, Water Cannons Fired at Pro-Brotherhood Protest

By | 2014-01-02T21:59:13-04:00 January 2nd, 2014|News|

Egyptian officials continued their crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood Wednesday, firing tear gas and water cannons at a student demonstration in Cairo.    Egyptian state media reported that about 300 pro-Brotherhood students blocked a road near the Defense Ministry, chanting anti-police and anti-government slogans. When the protesters refused to move, anti-rioting tactics were used, officials

Hamas PM: No One Can Call Us a Terror Organization

By | 2014-01-02T13:41:20-04:00 January 2nd, 2014|News|

Hamas’s Gaza Prime Minister condemned on Tuesday Egypt's designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group last week.   Ismail Haniyeh also said that no one could label Hamas as a terrorist organization and snubbed calls by some rival factions for Hamas to sever connections with the Brotherhood.   "We reject such a classification

Arab MK: Egypt’s Gen. Sisi is a ‘Gang Leader’

By | 2014-01-02T13:14:40-04:00 January 2nd, 2014|News|

MK Ibrahim Sarsur (Raam-Taal) distributed an official press release this week in which he expresses his full identification with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Sarsur was the head of the southern section of the Islamic Movement in Israel in the past.   "It is a great honor for me, greater than any other, to belong to

Egypt Calls on Arab Countries to Blacklist the Brotherhood

By | 2014-01-02T12:58:33-04:00 January 2nd, 2014|News|

Egypt, which has blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, on Monday urged other members of the Arab League to follow suit.   AFP reported that Egypt called on Arab League members to enforce a counterterrorism treaty that would block funding and support for the Muslim Brotherhood.   Cairo also wants the League’s members