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.

Two interviews live with Ashraf Ramelah coming up!

By | 2013-09-24T19:40:47-04:00 September 24th, 2013|Press Releases|

  Two interviews live with Ashraf Ramelah coming up!  Both on Wed. Sept 25 – morning and afternoon   In the morning:   Laura Ingraham Show 10:30 am – 10:45 am To locate your local station and call in number: Go to http://www.lauraingraham.com/stationfinder      In the afternoon:   InterMountain Christian News Hour radio program

The So-Called “Palestinians'” Alleged Rights

By | 2013-09-24T15:49:50-04:00 September 24th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Just the facts.   In 1920, at San Remo, the Jewish People were recognized by the Principal Allied War Powers in WWI as owning the political rights to Palestine   The competing Arab claims also submitted at the Paris Peace talks were implicitly denied in Palestine, but recognized in the rest of the Middle East,

Israeli Forces Join Efforts to End Kenya Siege

By | 2013-09-24T14:42:34-04:00 September 24th, 2013|News|

Israel security forces have joined their Kenyan counterparts in the fight to rescue hostages captured by Islamist terrorists at a Nairobi mall.   "The Israelis have just entered and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured," a security source said on condition he not be named.   An Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson would neither

Saudi religious police warn against singing, dancing on National Day

By | 2013-09-24T12:35:59-04:00 September 24th, 2013|Islam|

The Saudi religious police warned against singing and dancing in public places on Monday as the kingdom marks its 83rd National Day, according to DPA. Turki al-Shalil, a spokesman for the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice religious police, said in a press statement on Monday that violators will face

Russia warns against “aggression” on Syria

By | 2013-09-24T11:35:13-04:00 September 24th, 2013|News|

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that any foreign military intervention against Syria would be a form of “aggression” that would hit the entire region and breach international law.   Putin told a summit of an ex-Soviet security group that he was grateful for its decision to support Moscow's refusal to sanction strikes against

Lessons from Past Middle East Weapons Inspections

By | 2013-09-24T11:14:18-04:00 September 24th, 2013|Op-Eds|

What might be expected in monitoring Syria.   Introduction:   Weapons experts point to the successes of the West in both Iraq and Libya in destroying large weapons arsenals. Yet there are certain problems that weapons inspectors have had to deal with over the years that are common to all attempts to deal with control

Kenya: Four Year Old Boy Confronts Terrorists, and Escapes Alive

By | 2013-09-24T10:17:17-04:00 September 24th, 2013|News|

  As Kenyan security forces continue to battle Somalian Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, more stories have emerged, shedding light on the horrific events of the assault on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, which have killed at least 62 people and left more than 170 wounded.   Gunmen - and, it is emerging, at least one