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.

Boston Marathon investigators find woman’s DNA on bomb fragment

By | 2013-04-30T14:35:45-04:00 April 30th, 2013|News|

Investigators have found traces of female DNA on a fragment from one of the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon earlier this month, U.S. officials said late Monday.   While it is still unclear who the DNA matches to, the find indicates a female accomplice may have helped the two brothers suspected in the

Mass food poisoning at Egyptian university sparks student anger

By | 2013-04-30T14:14:19-04:00 April 30th, 2013|News|

In the second mass food poisoning case to hit Egypt’s al-Azhar University this month, 131 students were poisoned on Monday night, according to the country’s ministry of health.   Egyptian students broke out in protest when the  cases were confirmed, blocking a road near the campus and clashing with police “who fired teargas in an

Leftist leader says Egypt should refuse $4.8bn IMF loan

By | 2013-04-30T14:04:41-04:00 April 30th, 2013|News|

Egypt should refuse a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund rather than submit to terms that would further impoverish the poor and could spark a revolution of the hungry, leftist leader Hamdeen Sabahi said on Monday.   Sabahi, 58, who came third in a presidential election last year after the 2011 uprising that

World famous Giza pyramids get a spring clean

By | 2013-04-30T13:41:21-04:00 April 30th, 2013|News|

A private company is cleaning up the Giza plateau in Egypt, removing garbage that has accumulated in the world famous archeological site.   The three pyramids of ancient Egyptian kings, Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, along with the Sphinx, are located on the site. Although there is an archaeological safe zone in place, dwindling numbers of

Clashes Erupt at Jordanian University, Killing 3

By | 2013-04-30T11:45:45-04:00 April 30th, 2013|News|

Armed clashes between students killed three people and hurt 25 others at a university campus in the restive Jordanian city of Maan on Monday, the kingdom's interior minister said.   "Three people died and 25 were injured the fight at the King Hussein bin Talal University's campus in Maan," in southern Jordan, Hussein Majali told

Obama’s “Red Line” on Syria Bleeds into a “Calculus”

By | 2013-04-30T11:06:36-04:00 April 30th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Obama's newly discovered Syrian "calculus" is yet another linguistic retreat for Obama to allow the Iranian stooge-puppet Assad to genocidally mass-murder Sunni Muslims.   In 1693, Sir Isaac Newton discovered calculus. Or, was it Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who discovered calculus? Calculus is so original and complicated, mathematicians still argue over who invented it.   In

Steinitz: Nuclear Iran is Like 30 Nuclear North Koreas

By | 2013-04-30T10:54:14-04:00 April 30th, 2013|News|

International Relations Minister Yuval Steinitz warned on Sunday that Iran having a nuclear weapon would be equal to “thirty nuclear North Koreas”.   “We have the right and the ability to defend ourselves,” he said in a speech at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York. “The cooperation with the United States is very important

UAE pardons more than 100 Egyptian prisoners

By | 2013-04-29T20:54:46-04:00 April 29th, 2013|News|

The United Arab Emirates pardoned more than 100 Egyptian prisoners on Monday in a move hailed by the Egyptian ambassador to Abu Dhabi as a gesture that will improve relations between the two countries.   Ties between Egypt and the UAE soured after veteran Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak, a longtime Gulf ally, was toppled in