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.

Route of Drone Hints It May Have Been Aimed at Nuclear Reactor

By | 2012-10-07T19:31:47-04:00 October 7th, 2012|Press Releases|

The enemy drone downed by the Air Force, Saturday, took a strange route that did not cover strategic sites, indicating Israel may have diverted it from a route over the nuclear reactor in Dimona, located due east of Gaza.   The UAV entered Israeli air space from the Mediterranean Sea along the Gaza Coast and

Abu Hamza arrives in U.S. to face terrorism charges

By | 2012-10-07T01:33:28-04:00 October 7th, 2012|News|

Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza and two other terror suspects extradited from Britain have arrived in the United States, U.S. media reported on Sunday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.   Syed Tahla Ahsan and Babar Ahmad were scheduled to appear at 8:00 am before U.S. District Judge Janet Hall, U.S. District Attorney David Fein announced.  

Public satisfaction with Mursi at 51.6% after 90 days in office

By | 2012-10-07T00:46:41-04:00 October 7th, 2012|News|

Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has won 51.6 percent of people’s satisfaction after 90 days in office, the government’s Information and Decision Support Center has reported.    The public satisfaction in urban areas stood at about 54.7 percent, slightly higher than the satisfaction in coastal areas, 52.4 percent. In rural and tribal areas the satisfaction was

Turkey, Iran and the West Entangled in the Syrian Civil War

By | 2012-10-07T00:29:52-04:00 October 7th, 2012|News|

Fighting in Syria between Damascus and the rebel militias continues to drag on and the violent rebellion has now come to involve Turkey, Iran and the West.    The civil war continues to entangle Turkey in violence, as Saturday marked the fourth consecutive day in which Syrian shells fired by the rebels landed in the

Iranians Scared by Netanyahu Speech

By | 2012-10-07T00:14:44-04:00 October 7th, 2012|News|

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly placed fear into the hearts of Iranians, a Muslim woman from Tehran told Israel’s Channel 2 News on Friday.   The woman, Shahanaz, agreed to be interviewed to the Israeli channel despite the risks involved. She was first interviewed two months ago and was interviewed

‘Knock on Doors’ campaign launched in Egypt to defend Prophet Mohammed

By | 2012-10-06T23:27:43-04:00 October 6th, 2012|News|

An Egyptian campaign to defend Islam’s Prophet Mohammed was launched on Friday under the title “Knock on Doors,” which aims mainly to collect one billion Egyptian pounds ($165 million), an Egyptian daily reported.    Mohammed Assem Abdul Maged, a leader in the Islamist groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiya and al-Ansar movement to defend the Prophet Mohammed, launched

Islamic Jihad Leader: Re-examine ‘Ceasefire’ with Israel

By | 2012-10-05T12:55:09-04:00 October 5th, 2012|News|

The leader of the Islamic Jihad terror group, Ramadan Shallah, said on Thursday that it is time to re-examine the ceasefire with Israel, which terrorists from Gaza usually break in any case.   In a recorded speech to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Jihad, Shallah said that all arrangements with