1910-1989, during his life professor of Islam, Syrian, Aramaic, and Arabic at the Free University in Amsterdam. He taught Anton Wessels and Jan Slomp who became scholars of Islam in their own right. Wessels and Slomp read with him Al-Baydâwi’s commentary on the holy Qurân: Anwâr al-Tanzil wa asrâr al-ta’wil

A Lebanese political researcher, he wrote a study entitled “Roots of Modern Democracy” which was published in 1993, particpated in a roundtable discussion initiated by AWR on the amendment of Art. 2 of the Constitution (see AWR-Paper Nr. 40 )

Correspondent of Vatican Radio and National Public Radio (USA); Board member of AWR

Author

Greek Orthodox archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu; Abbot of St. Catherine’s Monastery in South Sinai

U.S. Ambassador to Israel (2001-2005); Former Ambassador to Egypt

U.S. academic, writer, and political commentator; pro-Israel activist

General Bishop for the churches of al-Ma^cādī and Dār al-Salām (Since 1991)

Former Coptic Orthodox monk who became a Protestant pastor

prophet 

Pakistani scholar of Islam (1926-2013), author of God of Justice (Leiden, Brill,1960). He was still a Muslim while writing this book and in 1960 wanted to end once and for all the argument of non-Muslims that God’s justice in the Qur’an can be arbitrary.

US journalist of British origin; Author; Foreign affairs commentator

After leaving the Britain’s Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1948 he continued his studies and received a  Master degree in 1952. In 1954 he  was ordained a deacon at the Church of England and a priest in 1955. Afterwards, he was appointed as a missionary through the Church Missionary Society in 1956. He co-authored the World Christian Encyclopedia of 1982 which is highly controversial when it comes to the number of (Coptic) Christians living in Egypt.

First prime minister of Israel (1953-1963)

British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for (MP) Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough

President of the American University in Cairo (Since 2003)

British writer specializing in the military history of World War II

Witness of the Luxor attack in 1997. Travelled together with Saskia van der Mast. They met with Beatrix of the Netherlands during her state visit.

Professor of law at Damanhour University

Father

Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) – Paramount Leader of China between 1978 and 1992. Deng initiated large-scale economic and political reform, relinking China to the world economy. Due to this reason, Deng is generally attributed with China’s ‘economic miracle’ and rapid development

British diplomat; Chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission in Sudan (Since 2008); Ambassador to Egypt (2003-2008); Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2000-2003)

South African Archbishop (b.1931) 

Author; Journalist

Consultant at the Catholic Diocese of Osnabrueck, Germany

teacher in luxor

Coptic woman from al-Mahallah / Gharbiya / Nile Delta , disappeared according to Sawt al-Ummah, on October 9, 2005 

Translator at AWR; Author