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.

Egypt Assures Hagel: We’re Committed to Peace with Israel

By | 2013-04-25T11:51:44-04:00 April 25th, 2013|News|

Egypt’s leaders have assured visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that they are committed to their country’s peace treaty with Israel.   A statement on Wednesday by the U.S. embassy in Cairo said that during Hagel’s visit, “Egyptian leaders reiterated their commitment to Egypt's international obligations, including the Peace Treaty with Israel.”   Hagel urged

Boston Bombing Suspect Texted Mother: ‘Ready to Die For Islam’

By | 2013-04-25T11:36:39-04:00 April 25th, 2013|News|

Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev sent text messages to his mother as early as 2011 suggesting he was willing to die for Islam, the FBI told lawmakers this week, according to Fox News.   Tsarnaev, who was killed days after the April 15 bombing in a shootout with police, is said to have embraced radical

Columbia Professors Against Israel

By | 2013-04-24T22:53:55-04:00 April 24th, 2013|News|

Roughly 100 professors and lecturers at Columbia University in New York are demanding that their pension funds not be invested with companies that also do business with the IDF or with civilian security providers in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) or eastern Jerusalem.   Professor Katherine Franke of Columbia’s Center for Gender and

Assailant ‘Anti-Semite First, Madman Second’

By | 2013-04-24T22:34:42-04:00 April 24th, 2013|News|

"He may be mentally ill but he is, first and foremost, an anti-Semite who attacked a Jew," a French Jewish leader said of the assailant who stabbed a rabbi and his son in Paris.   Meir Haviv, Deputy Chairman of Jewish umbrella group CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France) told Arutz Sheva that

French Embassy Under Attack

By | 2013-04-24T22:20:32-04:00 April 24th, 2013|News|

Shots were fired near the French embassy in Yemen on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, after a car bomb attack on France's embassy in Libya wounded two French guards and caused extensive damage.   France is watching the situation in the capital Sanaa "carefully", a ministry spokesman told the AFP news agency.   Paris stepped

Three Saudis Imprisoned for Plotting to Kill Americans

By | 2013-04-24T12:13:36-04:00 April 24th, 2013|News|

An anti-terror court has sentenced three Saudis to six years in prison each for plotting to kill American nationals at the height of a campaign of Al-Qaeda attacks in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006, a witness said, according to AFP.   The court in Riyadh issued its ruling late on Sunday, said a witness

Posters of ousted Egyptian president appear in Mursi’s hometown

By | 2013-04-24T12:03:51-04:00 April 24th, 2013|News|

The bustling streets of the Nile Delta city of al-Sharqiya should be a stronghold for Muslim Brotherhood-backed Egyptian President, Mohamed Mursi.   But as the country’s economic stagnation and political deadlock deepen two years after the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, nostalgia for the former president is on the rise.    The imprisoned former president’s

Boston Suspects’ Mosque has Terror Ties

By | 2013-04-24T11:51:43-04:00 April 24th, 2013|Reports|

The mosque attended by the two suspects in the Boston marathon bombings “has a curriculum that radicalizes people,” according to the interfaith group Americans for Peace and Tolerance.   The mosque has reportedly been associated with other suspected terrorists and is affiliated with the controversial Muslim American Society, APT says.   Among the former attendees

Pamela Geller’s Banned Synagogue Speech & Protest Habeeb Ahmed – Great Neck, Long Island

By | 2013-04-24T01:58:24-04:00 April 24th, 2013|From the Net|

On April 14, 2013,Pamela Geller’s Right-to-Free Speech was alive and well at Chabad House and led by  Rabbi Yoseph Geisinsky in Great Neck, Long Island.     This was one day before the SAVAGE, murderous attack by two Jihadis against American citizens. An attack that was meant to maim and to kill PEOPLE, not soldiers,

Arab Media Outcry as MKs Weigh Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount

By | 2013-04-24T01:17:19-04:00 April 24th, 2013|News|

For years Jews have been allowed to visit the Temple Mount, the holiest place on earth according to the Jewish religion, but have not been allowed to pray there. In late 2012 police issued draconian instructions under which Jewish visitors could be arrested for merely appearing to pray.   All that may change with MK