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.

Iranians can ‘wipe out’ Israel if attacked

By | 2013-02-06T15:58:33-04:00 February 6th, 2013|News|

The Iranian people are ready to march on Israel to “wipe it out” if the Jewish state attacks the Islamic republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in statements published Wednesday by Egypt’s state news agency.   “The people of Iran are ready to march on Israel to wipe it out if it launches into an adventure

It’s Time to Stand Up to Hizbullah

By | 2013-02-06T12:57:41-04:00 February 6th, 2013|News|

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a statement Tuesday after Bulgaria officially blamed Hizbullah for a terrorist bombing in the country that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian last year.   Netanyahu called on the international community to recognize Hizbullah as a terrorist organization.   The Bulgarian government said Tuesday that two people with Canadian and

Egypt’s PM says ‘unclean breasts’ can cause diarrhoea

By | 2013-02-06T12:43:36-04:00 February 6th, 2013|News|

Cabinet meetings usually discuss the state of economy, wars and general matters of governance. However, Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil recently utilized a meeting to talk about the dangers of “unclean” breasts.    The PhD holding prime minister who studied water resources, somehow, related the lack of clean water to the lack of clean breasts

“The Gatekeepers” Opens the Gate for Anti-Zionism

By | 2013-02-06T12:23:44-04:00 February 6th, 2013|Op-Eds|

This article was sent to the Jewish Press as well as Arutz Sheva.   The crowd at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema on the upper west side is mainly Jewish and liberal—ultra-liberal. They behave as if they are superior to all “oustjuden,” the illiterate, superstitious, unwashed Eastern European Jews--and therefore, in their sleek leather boots and

U.S. President Barack Obama to visit West Bank, Jordan and Israel

By | 2013-02-05T23:04:21-04:00 February 5th, 2013|News|

President Barack Obama will stop in the West Bank and Jordan on his trip to the Middle East in the coming months on a trip which will also include his first visit as U.S. leader to Israel, the White House said Tuesday.   Officials had earlier disclosed Obama would visit Israel this Spring and the

Gaza University to Implement ‘Modest’ Dress Code for Females

By | 2013-02-05T22:32:17-04:00 February 5th, 2013|News|

Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers have taken another step towards the implementation of strict Islamic sharia law in the region.   The latest step is introducing a strict dress code for female students at the Al-Aqsa University, Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevi reports.   A letter distributed to students in November stated that all students should

Israel will Regret Syria Attack

By | 2013-02-05T22:08:23-04:00 February 5th, 2013|News|

Israel will regret its latest "aggression against Syria", a top Iranian official visiting Damascus told reporters on Monday.   "Just like it regretted all its wars... the Zionist entity will regret its aggression against Syria," said National Security Council head Said Jalili, a day after Israel implicitly confirmed it staged an air strike near Damascus

First Iranian leader to visit Cairo in more than 30 years

By | 2013-02-05T15:41:30-04:00 February 5th, 2013|News|

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo Tuesday to attend the Islamic Solidarity Organization conference, a step that marks the first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt in 34 years.    President Mohamed Mursi kissed Ahmadinejad as he disembarked from his plane at Cairo airport, footage broadcast by Egyptian state television showed.   On

Egypt foreign reserves drop in Jan by $1.4 bln: central bank

By | 2013-02-05T15:23:31-04:00 February 5th, 2013|News|

Egypt’s foreign reserves fell by almost 10 percent to $13.6 billion in January, the Central Bank of Egypt said in a statement on Tuesday published by the official MENA news agency.   The bank said “foreign reserves fell heavily by $1.4 billion to $13.61 billion in January, from $15 billion in December,” the agency reported.