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.

‘Israel Leads World Battle against Terror’

By | 2013-05-08T11:51:12-04:00 May 8th, 2013|News|

The Western world is increasingly realizing that the terrorist threat it faces is the same threat that Israel has faced for decades, says Avi Posnick of the StandWithUs Israel advocacy group.   Posnick also spoke about calls for peace talks in light of the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing incitement to terrorism, and discussed how pro-Israel Americans

Egypt’s PM announces nine new ministers in cabinet reshuffle

By | 2013-05-07T15:33:04-04:00 May 7th, 2013|News|

As part of a cabinet reshuffle of nine ministerial changes, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood will be appointed planning minister, state media reported on Tuesday.   Prime Minister Hisham Qandil announced nine changes to his cabinet including the appointment of Amr Darrag, a senior official in the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, as

Saudi urges U.N. action against Israel strikes on Syria

By | 2013-05-07T13:49:58-04:00 May 7th, 2013|News|

Saudi Arabia on Monday called for U.N. action to end Israeli strikes on Syria, describing the raids as a “dangerous violation” of the sovereignty of an Arab state, the official SPA news agency reported.   Israeli raids on Syrian targets near Damascus at the weekend killed at least 42 soldiers, the Syrian Observatory for Human

Egypt’s New Anti-Muslim-Brotherhood Militia

By | 2013-05-07T03:44:33-04:00 May 7th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Egypt's Black Bloc grew out of their struggle for liberation from an authoritarian system, only after non-violent civil efforts had failed. Ironically, the U.S. Black Bloc and Egypt's Black Bloc are on opposite sides of the political struggle – one, in the U.S., a friend to the Muslim Brotherhood and doubtless trying to gain prestige

Israel’s Two-state “Solution” Pyrrhic Victory

By | 2013-05-07T02:31:00-04:00 May 7th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Either Netanyahu really believes the "Two-State Solution", or he is just pretending he does because it looks and feels good.   In 280-279 BCE, Greek King Pyrrhus' army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea and at Asculum. King Pyrrhus soon lost the war against the Romans. The term "Pyrrhic Victory" describes situations

Christians vote for protection in Pakistan

By | 2013-05-07T02:02:57-04:00 May 7th, 2013|News|

Traumatized Christians in a Lahore slum where angry Muslims torched more than 100 homes say Pakistan’s two largest parties offer the only hope of protection at this week’s general election.   The Pakistan Muslim League-N of Nawaz Sharif, a man accused of being soft on the Taliban but tipped to win Saturday’s polls, and the

Syrian Minister: All Possibilites Open After Israeli Attacks

By | 2013-05-07T01:22:58-04:00 May 7th, 2013|News|

Syria responded angrily to the overnight air strikes on military targets that it accused Israel of carrying out, warning that the attack "opens the door to all possibilities."   "We will not accept to be humiliated," Syrian information minister Omran al-Zoubi said at an afternoon press conference, according to ABC News.   "We are all

Return Degrees to Anti-Israel American Campuses

By | 2013-05-07T00:54:50-04:00 May 7th, 2013|Op-Eds|

674 anti-Israel events occurred at US universities during the 2011-12 academic year. Now, for the first time in US history, the Association for Asian American Studies voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions.   At its annual conference in Seattle, the group’s general membership unanimously voted in favor of the anti-Semitic resolution. These corrupted Asian professors