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.

Saudis, Gulf States ‘Shocked’ By Obama-Rouhani Chat

By | 2013-10-01T12:18:34-04:00 October 1st, 2013|News|

  Israelis are not the only ones concerned with the apparent warming of relations between Iran and the United States; Saudi Arabia has leveled sharp criticism against U.S. President Barack H. Obama for conducting a phone conversation with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.   That conversation, which took place last Friday, will be taken the wrong

Tear gas fired at women’s university protest in Sudan

By | 2013-09-30T21:23:57-04:00 September 30th, 2013|News|

Sudanese police fired tear gas Monday into a university campus where female students were protesting, the university head said on the eighth day of demonstrations sparked by rising fuel prices.   Between 150 and 200 Ahfad University for Women students were demonstrating “against the government and things like that,” university president Gasim Badri told AFP.

CAIR’s Islamophobia Meltdown

By | 2013-09-30T20:33:39-04:00 September 30th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Two days after the release of a CAIR report claiming to expose the network financing “Islamophobia”, Charles C. Johnson ran his own report documenting CAIR’s convoluted financing schemes.   While the CAIR report attempted to stigmatize terrorism research by reporting on the straightforward funding of organizations and individuals such as Robert Spencer; the Johnson report

Iran Unveils New Drone, Another Becomes Operational

By | 2013-09-30T19:32:22-04:00 September 30th, 2013|News|

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has unveiled a new advanced reconnaissance drone and said another attack drone unveiled last year has now become fully operational.    AFP quoted local reports saying the highly mobile propellant-powered reconnaissance drone, unveiled this weekend, and named "Yasseer," can fly for eight hours with a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles) and

EXPOSÉ: A Christian Fatwa Against Israel

By | 2013-09-30T18:55:52-04:00 September 30th, 2013|Op-Eds|

The Global Church ignores the threats to itself from the very Palestinian Arabs it supports, for the sake of Israel-bashing.   The World Council of Churches, an ecumenical body which claims to represent 590 million Christians worldwide and based in Switzerland, will sponsor an event supporting the partition and Islamization of Jerusalem. The ”World Week

Muslim prisoners sue Britain over pork contaminated food

By | 2013-09-30T11:31:38-04:00 September 30th, 2013|Islam|

Nearly 200 Muslim prisoners are suing the British government, claiming their human rights were violated after test results confirmed that halal food being served to them contained pork meat, reported The Telegraph on Monday.   Islamic teachings strongly forbid any Muslim from eating pork. Test results proved that halal sausage rolls, shepherd’s pies, steak and

Nazi Scientists Helped Arabs Produce WMDs

By | 2013-09-30T11:10:58-04:00 September 30th, 2013|News|

Nazi scientists helped Arab countries produce chemical weapons, according to a prominent Egyptian journalist.   The journalist, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, made the comments in an interview which aired on September 19, 2013. The comments were translated and posted to the internet by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).   “In the 1950s and 1960s,

Iran FM Accuses Netanyahu of ‘Lie Attack’ on Nukes

By | 2013-09-30T10:57:39-04:00 September 30th, 2013|News|

Iran's Foreign Minister accused Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of peddling lies Sunday over Tehran's nuclear activities, and defended his country's "non-negotiable" right to enrich uranium.   Mohammad Jawad Zarif told ABC's George Stephanopolous that Netanyahu was wrong to allege that Iran's recent moves to cooperate with the West amount to little more than an