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.

After Israeli Apology, Erdogan Plans Gaza Visit

By | 2013-03-24T23:28:20-04:00 March 24th, 2013|News|

A day after Israel apologized to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara incident, its Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that he will visit Gaza.    “I may eventually visit Gaza and the West Bank in April. This visit would take place in the context of a general effort to contribute to the resolution

Hizbullah Slams Obama for Calling it a ‘Terrorist Organization’

By | 2013-03-24T23:11:14-04:00 March 24th, 2013|News|

The Hizbullah terrorist group on Friday slammed U.S. President Barack Obama's demand that nations list it as a terrorist organization, AFP reported.   The group said Obama spoke like "an employee of the Zionist entity."   "He speaks like an employee of the Zionist entity (Israel) and not the highest-ranking official in the administration of

Radical Islamists attack Malian city of Gao

By | 2013-03-24T12:48:54-04:00 March 24th, 2013|News|

Islamic extremists infiltrated and attacked the northern Malian city of Gao, the mayor and residents said late Saturday. It was the third major attack on the town since it was liberated by French forces in January.   The assault indicates that the radical Islamists remain entrenched and able to attack despite the thousands of French

IDF Attacked on Golan Heights by Forces in Syria, Returns Fire

By | 2013-03-24T12:30:12-04:00 March 24th, 2013|News|

Syrian gunmen opened fire on an IDF position in the Golan on Sunday morning in the second attack of its kind in 24 hours.   IDF soldiers responded with heavy fire, scoring a direct hit on the position from which the fire originated. No soldiers were hurt.   On Saturday night gunfire from the Syrian

Obama to PA: Forget About Preconditions, Building Freeze

By | 2013-03-24T12:15:06-04:00 March 24th, 2013|News|

While the United States believes that the Palestinian Authority is ready for statehood, and that PA leaders would be successful stewards of an independent state, no progress will be made in negotiations to reach that goal unless “the two sides are willing to think outside the box and get out of some of the old

MUSLIMS, LEFTISTS COORDINATE TO STOP PAMELA GELLER FROM SPEAKING AT SYNAGOGUE

By | 2013-03-23T18:01:51-04:00 March 23rd, 2013|News|

I am set to speak at the Great Neck Synagogue on April 14. But Tom Trento has uncovered emails that reveal a coordinated leftist/Muslim campaign to intimidate synagogue officials into canceling my talk. Please pay close attention to these emails and read each one. These show how the machine operates. They deploy their forces carefully,

Obama ends Mideast trip, Kerry to meet Abbas and Netanyahu

By | 2013-03-23T16:37:04-04:00 March 23rd, 2013|News|

U.S. President Barack Obama left Jordan on Saturday, ending a four-day tour in the Middle East which included a warm embrace of Israel and warnings to Iran on its nuclear program.   Air Force One lifted off from Amman airport in the early afternoon bound for Washington, after Obama spent the morning touring ancient ruins

Twitter is a ‘council of clowns:’ Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti

By | 2013-03-23T16:25:46-04:00 March 23rd, 2013|Islam|

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti has criticized the social media website Twitter as a “council of clowns” and a place for those who “unleash unjust, incorrect and wrong tweets.”   Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh made the statements during a speech to Saudi Arabia’s senior religious scholars on Friday, the Saudi-based al-Watan newspaper reported Saturday. The

‘Quarantine her!’ Top Tunisian Islamist says topless girl needs stoning

By | 2013-03-23T16:04:40-04:00 March 23rd, 2013|Islam|

A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old girl who posted her topless pictures on Facebook to be “quarantined” and stoned to death before she starts “an epidemic.”   Tunisian newspaper AssabahNews quoted Salafi preacher Alami Adel, who heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying: “According to