Persons

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

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Name Function
John Casson (Ambassador)
John Crocker
John D Liu

Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation and the founder of Ecosystem Restoration Camps

John David Ashcroft (Politician)

U.S politician; United States Attorney General (2001-2005); Senator (1995-2001); Governor of Missouri (1985-1993)

John Denis Gallagher
John Esposito (Dr.)

Professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University; director of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal center for Muslim-Christian understanding at Georgetown University

John F. Kelly (Brigadier General)
John F. Kennedy (President)

President of the USA (1961-1963); Senator (1953-1960)

John Gabriel (Theologian)

Theology of Liberation and who is originally from Aswan

John Garang (Politician)

Sudanese politician and rebel leader; Commander of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (1983-2005)

John Gerhart (Dr.)

President of the American University in Cairo (1998-2000); different positions at Ford Foundation (1969-1998)

John H. Watson (Rev., Dr.)

UK scholar; Anglican Priest; Author of a.o, "Among the Copts"; Board member of AWR

Biography

John Hiemstra (Rev., Dr.)

Executive Director of the Council of Churches of the City of New York (1994-2007)

John Horgan (Politician)
John III (Coptic Patriarch)
John Kerry (Senator)

Senior U.S. Senator of Massachusetts (Since 1985); Presidential nominee in 2004

John McCain (Senator)

Presidential candidate of the Republican Party in 2008

John Paul II (Pope)

Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City (1978-2005)

John R. Bradley (Journalist)

John R. Bradley, a British author and journalist best known for his 2008 book Inside Egypt: the Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution, identifies the Egyptian revolution of 1952 as “a failed revolution” 

John Rawls
John Sidrāk [Holland’s Institute Vice President]
John Ṭalʿat [A Political Activist]
John the Baptist (Biblical Figure)

 Jewish itinerant preacher in the early first century AD

John W. Miller
John Walker Lindh
John Wansbrough (Dr.)

American revisionist scholar of Islam.

John Waston (Dr.)
John Wesley (USAID)

Member of USAID in Egypt branch (1990s)

John XIX [Yoannis] (Pope)
John XXIII (Pope)

Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City (1958-1963)

Johnny Weixler (Filmmaker)
Jok Marko

Coordinator of the Youth project in the Psychosocial Services and Training Institute in Cairo (PSTIC). 

Jon Aalborg (Rev. )

M.Div., Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo (2010) M.A. in theology, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC), Abasseya (2007)

Jon Hoover (Dr.)
Jon Stewart (Comedian)

American comedian

Jonah [Yūnus] (Prophet)
Jonas Rye Nielson

Danish student studying Arabic in the University of Copenhagen. 

Jonathan Cohen (American diplomat)

US ambassador to Egypt

Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Sacks

British rabbi (1948-2020). Author of the book Not in God’s name. (2015): “Too often in the history of religions, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hatred in the name of the God of love, and practiced cruelty in the name of the God of compassion.”

Joop Meijers
Jordi Muhammad Abdul Abni

successful souvenir trader in Cairo’s Khan al-Khalili district.

Jörg Haider (Politician)

Joerg (Jörg) Haider was an Austrian politician and longterm leader of the  Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) , as a controversial figure he was part of the far-right and known for his rassist and homophobic agenda

Jos M. Strengholt

Dutch director of Media House (Cairo)

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Prime Minister)

Prime Minister of Spain (since 2004)

José María Alfredo Aznar López (Prime Minister)

Jose Maria Alfredo Aznar Lopez hold the office of Spanish Prime Minister (1996 - 2004), he supported the United State's war on terrorism and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In his youth he was a member of  Frente de Estudiantes Sindicalistas (FES), a student union that supported the Falange, president Franco's facist organization. 

Joseph (Bible)
Joseph (General Bishop for Africa)

Egypt's General Bishop in Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Malawi, Zimbabwe)

Joseph Amīn (Fr.)
Joseph E. Connor

(1939-6.5.2016) Undersecretary General for Administration and Management at United Nations.

Joseph Kony (Lord's Resistance Army)

Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that formerly operated in Uganda.

Joseph Lieberman (Senator)

U.S. Senator from Connecticut (Since 1989); Chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (2001-2003)

Joseph Nabīl
Joseph Rāmiz

Egyptian expert in African affairs

Joseph Schacht (Prof.)

 

Prof. Joseph Schacht was a British-German Orientalist with a great influece on hadith-studies 

Joseph Schuster

German Jew. 

Joseph Smith (Mormon Prophet)

Founder and Prophet of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons)

Joseph Stalin (Premier of the Soviet Union)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953); Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941-1953)

Joseph T. Coffee
Joseph Taban (Rev.)

Reverend from Juba, South Sudan (2013)

Joseph Trumpeldor

(1880-1920) early Zionist activist and war hero

Joseph Walk

Joseph Walk (1914-2005), formerly a professor of history at Bar Ilan University (1964-1981) who led the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem (1978-1982). He was co-founder and Secretary of Oz Ve-Shalom.

Joseph Wassef [Joseph Wāṣif]

honorary secretary of the Egypt Diocesan Association

Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon (Archbishop)

Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon (born in 1949) was the Nigerian Anglican Archbishop of the Province of Kaduna and Bishop of Kaduna diocese before being appointed Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council of the Anglican Communion in 2015. He is known for advocating understanding between Christians and Muslims.

Jrījūrius al-Ṣamūʾīl [Grigorius al-Samu'il] (Father)

Coptic Orthodox Monk of the Monastery of Saint Samuel/Minya

Jrījūrius [Grigorius] (Bishop of post-studies and scientific research)

General Bishop for Education and Scientific Research (1967-2001)

Jūda ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Sayyīd Muḥammad (Minister of Social Solidarity and Justice)
Judith Miller (Journalist)

Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter

Juhayman al-Otaybi (Saudi Militant) [Juhaymān al-ʿUtaybī]
Julie Bineli (Dr.)
Juliette (Saint)
Julius Ceasar
Juma` Amīn‎
Jumʿa Mubārak [Juma Mubarak] (Ambassador)

 UAE ambassador in Cairo

Jürgen Kuberski (Dr.)
Jürgen Micksch (Dr.)

Director of the Abrahamic Forum for Germany and the Middle East

Jurgi Zaydan
Jūrj al-Baghjūrī [George al-Bahgoury] (Artist)
Jūrj Shākir [George Shaker] (Rev.)
Jurjī Zaydān [George Zeidan] (Writer, Teacher)

(1861-1914) 

Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada)
Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury)
Jørgen Skov Sørensen (Danmission)
K.G. Pfanders
Kamāl Abū al-Majid [Kamal Aboul Maged] (Politician)
1930-2019, Former Minister of Information and Deputy Chairman of the Egyptian Council for Human Rights. He advocated dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥjūb
Kamāl al-Hilbāwī (Dr.)

Former spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood's international organization in the West; Founding chief of the Muslim community in Britain; Author

Kamāl al-Janzūrī (Kamal Al-Ganzouri) (Dr.)

 

(1933), Egyptian Prime Minister 1996-199 and 7 December 2011 to 24 July 2012.

 

Kamāl al-Malākh [Kamal el-Mallakh] (Archaeologist)

 a famous Coptic-Egyptian archaeologist who discovered The King Khufu Solar ship in 1954

Kamāl al-Sanānīrī

Leading figure of the Muslim Brotherhood; had a big role in Afghanistan

Kamāl al-Shādhilī [Kamal al-Shazly] (Minister)

Former Minister of state for the People’s Assembly and Shurá Council affairs

Kamāl Būlus Bāsīlī

Administrator of the Forum of the Ibn Khaldoun Center

Kamāl Burayqaʿ ʿAbd al-Salām [Kamal Boraiqa Abdelsalam] (Dr.)

teaches at the conservative Azhar University and adheres to traditional Islamic teaching

Kamāl Farīd Isḥāq

Professor of Coptic Language at the Institutions of Coptic Studies. 

Kamāl Ghubriyyāl (Intellectual and Writer)

Coptic intellectual and writer

Kamāl Ḥabīb (Dr.)

Egyptian expert on Islamists; Political analyst; Islamic scholar; Former Leading figure in the Jihād organisation and Jamācah al-Islāmiyyah; Jailed for ten years (1981-1991) after which he gave up armed struggle

Kamāl Ibrāhīm (Dr.)

Professor at Loyola University in Chicago, U.S.; Board member of the U.S. Copts Association

Kamāl Mughīth (Dr.)

Author; President of the Centre for Educational Research

Kamāl Qubaysī

Author

Kamāl Ṣādiq Sāwīrus (Dr.)

Author; Member of Majlis al Mīllī

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