Persons

Terms:Persons

List of persons names (and their functions) used in AWR-Articles

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Name Function
Mary Picard (Dr.)

U.S. researcher; Author

Mary Robinson (President)

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997- 2002); President of Ireland (1990 -1997); Member of the Irish Senate (1969–1989)

Mārya Makrām

reported to have converted to Islam [Ref. Arab-West Report, paper 6, p. 12]

Maryam (Yūsuf ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ)

Al-Usbūʿ reported on March 26, 2007 about the 20-year old Copt that she married a Muslim,  Yusūf ʿAbd al-Fataḥ, and converted to Islam. As she is threatened by her family, she ask the president Hosni Mubarak to support her case [Ref. AWR, 2007, week 12, art. 5]

Maryam Fāyiʾz

Author

Maryam Majdī al-Jūnī [Mariam Magdy al-Guny]

She is reported to have been converted to Islam (changing her name from Marian into Maryam ) and to " [...] asks President Mubarak to protect her” as well as having agreed to " [...] attend the Coptic Orthodox Church meetings of advice and guidance provided that she will not be forced to return to the church like Wafāʾ Costantine” [Ref. AWR, 2007, week 12, art. 5 and: Arab-Media Report, paper 6, p. 11]

Maryam Maṭar
Maryam Tawfīq

Egyptian poetess

Maryān (Alleged Coptic Abuctee)

Egyptian Coptic woman said to have been abducted and converted by force to Islam with her sister Christine

Maryān Nādir Kāmal [Maryan Nadir Kamal]

allegedly converted to Islam, reported to have been forced to embrace Islam, discussion about kidnapping and (forced) concersion [AWR, 2006, week 37, art. 61 and: Arab-West Report, paper 6, p. 12]

Māryān ʿĀzir
Mashārī al-Zaydī

Author

Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Anṣārī

was one of the Companions of the Prophet and active in Egypt in the decades after its conquest by the Muslims

Massimo Capuani (Author)

 Massimo Capuani, an engineer and a researcher, is an expert in the history of the Eastern Christian Churches and has a thorough knowledge of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean worlds; he has also collected rich documentation about their cultural and artistic development.  He is the author of the book " Christian Egypt; Coptic Art and Monuments Through Two Millennia."

Masʿūd Aḥmad
Matao Vivianetti
Mātaʾūsʾ Wahbah (Father)
Mathew Synder
Mathias I (Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch)

Patriarch since 2013.

Mathieu Grenier (Fr.)
Mattā al-Miskīn‎ [Yūsuf Iskandar] (Father)

Late Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk of the Monastery of Saint Macarius in Wādī al-Naṭrūn; Key figure in the revival of Egyptian monasticism; Theologian; Author

Biography

Mattā Bey Sāwīris
Mattā Kāmil (Father)
Mattā Mīshīl Ḥannā (Father)

Priest of the church of the Holy Virgin in Jabal Al-Ṭayr

Mattā Ṣalīb Sāwīrūs (Father, Archpriest)

Member of the Majlis al-Milli [Coptic Orthodox Community Council]

Mattā Zakariyyā (Father)

Virgin Mary church

Matteo Renzi (Italian Prime Minister)
Matthew Henri
Matthew Anderson (Dr.)
Matthew Rhodes (Rev.) (Anglican)
Matthew Sparks
Matthias Ring‎
Matthijs de Blois (Dr.)
Mattyā (Pope)

Pope of Ethiopia. 

Mattyās (Father in al-Fayyoum)
Mattyās al-Suriyānī (Bishop of al-Mahallah)

Bishop of al-Maḥallah al-Kubrá / Gharbia (Since 1989)

Mattyās Naṣr Manqāriyyūs (Father)

Father Mattias Nasr, who helped a muslim man to become Christian. That created a lot of troubles with Egyptian government and a Coptic organization went to protest to Maspero building, where they were dispersed by force

Maurice Asʿad (Dr.)

Former secretary-general of the Middle East Council of Churches in Egypt

Maurice Ostroff
Maurice Sadek
Maurice Ṣādiq

President of the National Coptic Assembly in USA (Since 2001) and Human Rights Center for National Unity in Cairo (Since 1995); Lawyer; Member of Egyptian Bar Association (Since 1974); Author

Maurits Berger
Mawada al-Adham (TikTok)
Mawsīs [Mosseiss] (Father)
Max Rodenbeck
Maxime Rodinson (Historian)

French Marxist historian; sociologist; orientalist

Maximilian Abouleish-Boes (Dr.)

The head of the Sustainable Development department at SEKEM

May Samīr

Author

Mazhar Mallouhi (Author)
Maẓhar Shahīn [Mazhar Shaheen]

Imam of the Omar Makram Mosque close to Tahrir square, Cairo. He supported the revolution in 2011 and opposed Morsi during his reign in 2012-2013. In 2014 he became a television host on Al-Tahrir channel which he used for a hate campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood.

Māzin al-Sirsāwī [Mazen al-Sersawi]

Salafi sheikh

Māzin Ḥassan

Author

Maʿabd al-Jārḥī

Islamic banker

Maʿṣm Marzūq (Ambassador)
Meindert (1936-2021)
Meir Kahane (Rabbi)

American-Israeli rabbi, ultra-Nationalist political figure

Mel Gibson (Actor, Director)

American Actor and Director

Melanie Erlebach

Staffmember at CIDT (2007-2009)

Menachem Begin (Israeli Politician)

Prime Minister of Israel (1977-1983)

Mengistu Haile Mariam (3rd Chairman of the Derg
Merkorios (Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch)
Merrit Ghali
Mesrop Mutafyan II (Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople)

Archbishop of Prince Islands 1993-97. 84th Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople 1998-present

Metropolitan Bīshūy
Metropolitan Pachomius
Mette Toft Nielsen

Authors

Mḥmūd al-ʿAzab; The Grand Imam of AL-Azhar's (Shaykh Al-Azhar's) Consultant
Michael Anton [Mīkhāʾīl Anṭūn]

representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church

Michael Arnold Glueck
Michael Bineli (Dr.)
Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg is a Jewish American businessman, politician, author, philanthropist, and former mayor of New York city. As of November 2019, his net worth was estimated at $58 billion, making him the 9th richest person in the United States and the 14th richest person in the world.

Michael Burslem (Dr.)
Michael Carmichael
Michael Dickson

A British/Israeli writer and public speaker. He serves as executive director of the StandWithUs Israel office in Jerusalem.

Michael Fahmī
Michael Higgins (Politician - Ireland)
Michael Horowitz (Dr.)

U.S. Lawyer; Researcher; Former head of Freedom House

Michael L. Fitzgerald (Archbishop)

Roman Catholic Archbishop; Papal nuncio (representative) of the Vatican to Egypt (Since 2006); Delegate to the Arab League (Since 2006); Head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (2002-2006)

Michael Mann (Sociologist)
Michael Matthiessen
Michael Meunir [Michael Mounir] (Activist and politician)

Founder and President of U.S. Copts Association (since 1996) and leader of al-Hayat Party

Biography

Michael Møller (Director-General of UN Office in Geneva) [Switzerland]
Michael Reimer (Dr.)

Associate Professor; History Department; American University Cairo (Dept Chair, 2002-2004)

Michael Richard Pence (Mr.) [Vice-President]
Michael Rosenthal
Michael Shelley (Rev., Dr.)

Former Member of the Board of Advisors of Arab-West Report; Pastor

Michael Slackman

Michael Slackman is an American journalist for The New York Times and is the paper's International Managing Editor. He was the Cairo bureau chief from 2002 to 2009.

Michael Victor

Journalist in Al watani international

Michael Wahid Hanna (Dr.)

Member of the Century Foundation (US)

 

Michael [Mike] Fowler (Dr., Prof.)

Human rights lawyer, associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the American University in Cairo, member of the editorial board of RNSAW (now known as AWR). Passed away in 2009.

Michel Aflaq
Michel Gad Wolkowicz (founder of the Shibboleth Association)
Michel Houellebecq (Author)

French novelist, poet and filmmaker

Michel Mūsā Iskāndar [Priest of Nahdat al-Qadāsah church] (Asyūt
Michel N. Aoun (President of Lebanon)

(*1933) Prime Minister of Lebanon 1988-1990, President of Lebanon 1988-1990

Michele Bachmann (American Politician)

American politician, Republican party

Michele Clark
Midḥat al-Zāhid‎

head of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party - SPAP (Egypt)

Midḥat Bishāy (Mr.)

Author; Journalist

Midḥat Khafāja [Medhat Khafagah]

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