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.

Morsi to be Tried for Inciting to Murder

By | 2013-09-02T16:49:57-04:00 September 2nd, 2013|News|

  Egypt's state prosecutor said on Sunday he has referred ousted President Mohammed Morsi for trial on charges of inciting the murder of protesters, the BBC reported.   The accusations relate to violence outside the presidential palace in Cairo last December when seven people were killed in clashes.   Fourteen other members of Morsi’s Muslim

Advisory body asks Egyptian government to dissolve Muslim Brotherhood

By | 2013-09-02T16:10:23-04:00 September 2nd, 2013|News|

    Egypt’s State Commissioners Authority, which advises the government on legal matters, has called for the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.   The legal body also recommended the closure of the Islamist movement’s headquarters in Cairo. The non-binding recommendation was based on a 2002 law that prohibits organizations and groups from forming armed

Tunisia’s ‘rebellion’ campaign collects 1.7 million anti-govt votes

By | 2013-09-02T15:32:29-04:00 September 2nd, 2013|News|

    Inspired by Egypt’s “Tamarod” (rebellion) campaign, a Tunisian petition has so far collected around 1.7 million signatures in a move to oust the current Islamist government, the group’s founder said in an interview with the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper published on Monday.   The founder Mohamed Bennour said the group is determined to

Egypt Islamists call demos to mark 2 months of Mursi ouster

By | 2013-09-02T15:01:21-04:00 September 2nd, 2013|News|

Egyptian Islamists backing ousted President Mohamed Mursi have called for demonstrations across the country on Tuesday, two months since he was toppled by the military.   The call comes a day after Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour announced a panel to draw up a revised constitution but without the inclusion of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood which

Improvised bomb wounds two at Cairo police station

By | 2013-09-02T14:47:30-04:00 September 2nd, 2013|News|

An improvised bomb exploded at a police station in downtown Cairo on Monday, wounding two workers, the state news agency said.   MENA said three people on a motorcycle hurled what it called a homemade hand grenade at the police station. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.   Egypt has been gripped by political

PA Daily: US behind Syria Massacres

By | 2013-09-02T13:50:08-04:00 September 2nd, 2013|News|

The Palestinian Authority (PA) blamed the United States Sunday for the killing in Syria, reports Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). The PA's official daily wrote that “Events of mass killings do not upset [America] because they themselves have used killing as a means and a strategy to attain global domination."   PMW's Itamar Marcus and Nan

6 Dead in Clashes During Protests

By | 2013-09-01T14:11:16-04:00 September 1st, 2013|News|

At least six people were killed and 190 were wounded on Friday in Egypt as violent clashes erupted between supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and security forces, the Health Ministry said, according to Al Arabiya.   The  protests come after a relative lull following the arrests of many Muslim Brotherhood leaders. The Friday rallies

Syria: Kerry’s Accusations Based on Lies

By | 2013-09-01T13:37:17-04:00 September 1st, 2013|News|

Syria rejected on Friday remarks by United States Secretary of State John Kerry, who said earlier that U.S. intelligence had concluded that the regime was behind a chemical attack last week which killed more than 1,400 people.   Syria’s Foreign Ministry said Kerry’s claims were fabricated.   An official source at the Foreign Ministry quoted