Persons

Terms:Persons

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

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Name Function
Mamdūḥ Sālim

Former Prime Minister; Former Minister of Interior; Former Governor of:Asyut, Alexandria, Gharbia (1918-1988)

Mamdūḥ Sarūr

works primarily with the independent Egyptian daily al-Misri al-Yawm, and has freelanced extensively with the AP 

Mamdūḥ Shahīn

Lieutenant-General, defense minister's aide for legal affairs and a SCAF member

Mamdūḥ ʿAbd al-Rāziq
Mamdūḥ ʿIzzat

Author; Journalist

Mamdūḥ Marc
Mamūn al-Basyūnī (Dr.)

Author

Mamūn al-Huḍaybī (Mr.)

Official spokesman and secretary of the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood; Sixth Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood (2002-2004)

Mamūn Fandī (Dr.)

Egyptian Researcher; Author; Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University

Manāl (Shaykha)

Self-proclaimed prophetess

Manāl Abū al-Ḥassan
Manāl al-Ṭibī
Manāl al-ʿAbsī

President of the Egyptian Women Assembly

Manāl Lāshīn

Author

Manāl Mīkhāʾīl

 Governor of Damietta

Manār al-Shurbajī

Professor of Political Science

Manṣūb al-Dabʿān

Saudi writer. 

Manṣūr al-Rifāʿī ʿUbayd (Shaykh)

Former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Endowments

Manṣūr al-ʿĪsāwī (Major General)

Egypt's Minister of Interior Affairs, appointed by Prime Minister 'Isām Sharaf on 5 March 2011.

Manuel II Palaiologos (Byzantine Emperor)

Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)

Manʿa ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Maḥmūd (Dr.)

Former Dean of the Faculty of Uṣūl al-Dīn at the Azhar University

Mao Zedong [Mao Tse-Tung] (Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party)
Maqār (Bishop, al-Sharqiyya)
Maqāriūs (Bishop of Minyā)

Bishop of Minya

Mār Sūriyyūs Malkī Murād (Syriac Orthodox Deputy Patriarch in the Holy Land)
Mār ʿAmānūʾīl al-Thālith Dallī (Mar Emmanuel III Delly) (Cardinal)

He was the Patriarch Emeritus of Babylon of the Chaldeans and former Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church. 

 

Marc van Oudheusden

Senior political advisor in crisis management and policy analyst within the Dutch Government administration

Marcel Khalife [Marsīl Khalīfa] (Singer)

Lebanese singer and composer

Marcel Poorthuis

Professor of interreligious dialogue, Netherlands

Marcel Wahba (Ambassador)
Marcelle Sāmūʾil Qaddīs [Marcelle Samuel Qiddis]

Reported to have fled to a Muslim family from the violence in her own house whilst she attempted to convert to Islam, Al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ, on April 5 2006 [Ref. AWR, 2006, week 15, art. 36 and: Arab-West Report, Paper 6, p. 18]

Marco Polo (Explorer)
Mardiros Chevian (Rev., Fr.)
Margaret H.Thatcher (Baroness, Prime Minister)

Prime Minister of the UK (1979-1990); Leader of the Conservative party (1975-1990)

Margaret K. Nydell (Professor)
Margaret Roosevelt
Margaret Saroufim [Margaret Ṣārūfīm]

Margaret Saroufim [Margaret Ṣārūfīm], head of the Local Development Sector at CEOSS

Margaret Scobey (U.S. Diplomat)

Margaret Scobey is an American diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Egypt and United States Ambassador to Syria.

Margoliouth
Margrethe II (Queen of Denmark)

Queen of Denmark (Since 1972)

Mārī ʿAbd al-Masīḥ [Mary Abdelmassih]
Mārī Asʿad Jirjis [Mary Asad Girgis]

Young Coptic woman from Najʿ Hammādī / Qinā attempted to convert to Islam while allegedly seeking refuge in the Muslim comunity from her violent family, reported by Al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ, on April 5 2006 [Ref. AWR, 2006, week 15, art. 36 and: Arab-West Report, Paper 6, p. 18]

Mārī Bahīj al-ʿīd

13 years old murdered in Kushh in Sohag

Mārī Fikrī

Author

Mārī Ḥannā

Allegedly kidnapped, she entered the police station with her brother to apologize for the erroneous report, see: Rose al-Yūsuf of August 8, 2006 [Ref. AWR, 2006, week 32, art. 25 and: Arab-West Report, Paper 6, p. 18] 

Mārī Masʿūd (Prof. Dr.)

Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ain Shams University

Biography

Mārī Murād
Mārī Zakī (Shubrā al-Khayma Bishopric)
Mārī ʿAbd Allāh [Mary Abdallah]

Coptic women who allegedly converted to Islam [Ref. Arab-West Report, paper 6, p. 11]

Maria Graversen
Maria Kicha (Russian author)

Maria Kicha is a Russian writer, oriental studies specialist, a PhD in Law, a historian, and traveler

Maria van der Hoeven
Marian Malak (Mariyān Malāk); an MP of People’s assembly
Marianne Mahrous
Marie Louisa Whateley
Marie Louisa Whateley ‎(August 31, 1824 – March 9, 1889)
Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya (Curator)

Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya has been the chief curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre in charge of the Coptic section since 1979. She is now an Honarary Curator. She has an important contribution to the book "Christian Egypt; Coptic Arts and Monuments Through Two Millennia." 

Marienn Goffoel
Mārīnā Fahīm
Mārīnā Jūrj [Marina George]
Marine Le Pen (French Politician)

French politician, leader of the Nation Front (FN), a far-right party in France

Mark (Apostle)

Mark the Evengelist (first century A.C.) is  the traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark. He is said to have founded the Church of Alexandria, where he is buried. 

Mark (Bishop)

Coptic Orthodox Diocesan Bishop of Paris and Northern France

Mark Durie
Mark Hanson (Bishop)

Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in USA. 

Mark Koenig (Dr.)
Mark Silverberg
Mārkūs (General Bishop of the Churches of Ḥadāʾiq al-Qubba)
Markus Droege (Bishop)
Markus Sasafahaydi
Marlyn Tadrus (Dr.)

Egyptian human rights activist; Board member of the RNSAW

Marquṣ (Bishop of Shubrā al-Khayma)

Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Shubrā al-Khaymah diocese and al-Qanāṭir (Since 1992); Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church's Media center.

Biography
Website

Marquṣ (Father, Miṣrāta)

Priest in Miṣrāta (Libya)

Marquṣ (Metropolitan of France)
Marquṣ Ḥannā (Pasha)

Prominent Coptic politician; member of the Wafd Party; Former Prime Minister

Marquṣ Rushdī Jindī

Injured in the incidents of al-Kushḥ / Sohag (January 2000)

Marquṣ Sumayka (Pasha)

Egyptian archaeologist; Founder of the Coptic Museum

Marquṣ VIII (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Marquṣ ʿAzīz Khalīl (Father, Archpriest)

Archpriest of the Hanging Church in Cairo; Author

Martha C. Meyers (Dr.)
Martin (Dutch Journalist)
Martin Barillas
Martin Bosma
Martin Buber (Austrian Jewish philosopher)

Austrian Jewish philosopher

Martin John Gilbert (Sir)

A western scholar who wrote about the muslim-jewish relations in his article In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands.

Martin Luther (16th Century theologian)

1483-1546, German reformer 16th Century theologian and priest; Initiator of the Protestant Reformation; Principal figure in the development of Christian theology later called Lutheranism.

Criticized by Prof. Dr. Anton Wessels in his book The Grand Finale (2020) for drawing wrong conclusions on the basis of apocalyptic texts.

 

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. (Dr.)

American clergyman; activist; and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movements

Martin Reisgl (Prof. Dr.)

Professor for Applied Linguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland 

Martin Stalk

A Dutch journalist who worked in Eritrea during the late ninetees.

Martin Van Creveld

Israeli historian.

Martīrūs (Bishop)

General bishop of Sharq al-Sikkat al-Hadīd, Sharābīyah and al-Zāwiyah al-Ḥamrā’

Marwá al-Shirbīnī
an Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a German court in 2009 where she was seeking protection from a man against whom she had testified for frequent verbal abuse.
Marwa Fuʾād
Marwa Marie
Marwān ʿAbd al-Muʿtī (Brigadier General)
Mary Girgis Morgan
Mary Kennedy
Mary Lai

the head of the Sino-Egypt Friendship Promotion Society 

Mary Magdalene (St.)
Mary Masʿūd

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