Persons

Terms:Persons

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

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Name Function
Nāʾila ʿImāra [Naela Omara]

TV-host at the Egyptian Al-Qahera Wa-al-Nas channel

Necati Aydin
Necho II

Pharaoh, reigned 610–595 BCE

Necmettin Erbakan (Politician)

(1926-2011) Prime Minister of Turkey (1996-1997)

Nedal Swehli
Negasso Gidada
Nehemiah

Governor of Persian Judea under Artaxerxes I of Persia (465–424 BC)

Neil Quilliam
Néji Jalloul [Nājī Jallūl] (Tunisian professor)

Néji Jalloul is a Tunisian politician. He served as Minister of Education in the cabinet of Prime Minister Habib Essid and he continued to serve in this position in the cabinet of Prime Minister Youssef Chahed.

In 2019, he was a candidate in the 2019 Tunisian presidential election.

 

Tunisian professor

Nelly Fam

an attorney of cassation (or appeals)

Nelson Mandela

President of South Africa (1994-1999); Anti-apartheid activist; Leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, armed wing of the African National Congress; Served 27 years in prison; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1993)

Nelson Micheal Fernandez

A Indian expat who worked in Eritrea during the late nineties. He had to fled the country in 1999 due to the border conflict with Ethiopia.

Nibāl ʿAbd al-Nabī

Administrative manager of the Women Voters Support Centre

Nicholas "Nicky" Gumbel (Anglican Priest, Theologian)

Regisseur. 

Nicholas Gary Leides

The Greek Ambassador to Egypt

Nicholas Gjorvad

MA in Philosophy (2010) and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (2012), University of Edinburgh. He studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo from 2012-2013 and lived in Egypt from 2012-2014. A PhD candidate in Islamwissenschaft at Free University Berlin in 2016. 

Nicholas Piachaud (Amnesty International)

Director of Amnesty International’s human rights campaign in Egypt

Nicholas S. Hopkins

His main focus is on issues of development and social change in Egypt.

Nicola Latorre
Nicolas Sarkozy (President of France)

President of the French Republic (Since 2007); former minister of interior.

Nicole Veash

reporter

Nihād Abū al-Qumṣān

Director of the Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights and Egyptian women rights activist

Nihād Mashnūq

Lebanese Interior Minister

Nihād ʿAwwād

Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Nijād al-Baraʿī (Mr.)

Lawyer; Human Rights Activist; Chairman of the Egyptian Democracy Development Foundation

Nikolaos "Koos" van Dam (Dutch Ambassador, Scholar)

a Dutch scholar and author on the Middle East. He also was a Dutch Ambassador Egypt.

Nikolas Grossfield

Author; American intern at Awr

Nimrod Goren
Nina H. Shea

Director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Washington-based Freedom House

Niqūlā Anṭūniyyū [Nicola Antonio] (Archbishop)
Nir Ben Artzi (Rabbi)

The mystic Rabbi based in Jerusalem.

Nirmīn Ayyād

Coptic woman, disappeared as has been reported by Sawt al-Ummah, October 9, 2005 [Ref. Arab-West Report, Paper 6, p. 19] 

Nirmīn Fawzī

Author; Translator for AWR

Nirmīn ʿAbd al-Bārī
Nisrīn Jumʿa
Nīvīn al-ʿĀrif

Author

Nīvīn Māhir [Niveen Maher]

Reported as a case of forced conversion to Islam at March 31, 2005 by Al-Maydān newspaper [Ref. AWR, 2005, week 14 art. 31]

Nizār Ghurāb (Lawyer)

Lawyer

Nizar Qabani
Nizār Tawfīq Qabbānī (Poet, Diplomat)

Syrian poet

Niʿmāt Aḥmad Fuʾād (Dr.)

Author and icon of egyptian feminism and activism.

Niʿmāt Majdī Munir

Author and Physician

Noel Warr
Noha Hamza
Norbert Lammert (German Politician)
Norbert Schiller (Photographer)

Photographer

Nourhan Manougian (Armenian Orthodox Patriarch)
Nūbār Bāshā [Nubar Pasha] (Prime Minister of Egypt)

First Prime Minister of Egypt (1878-1879; 1884-1888 and 1894-1895)

Nuhā al-Zaynī (Judge)

Judge: Member of the Administrative Prosecution Authority

Numayrī Shūmān

Author

Nūnī Darwīsh

Egyptian-American human rights activist; Founder of Arabs For Israel; Director of Former Muslims United

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī
Nūrā A. (al-Amīriyya)

Coptic woman from al-Āmirīyah / Alexandria, who is reported to have disapeared by Watani September 29, 2007, allegedly she was in a relationsjip with a Muslim man [Ref. AWR, 2007, week 43, art. 25 and: Arab-West Report, Paper 6, p. 17] 

Nūrā Yūnis (al-Manaṣṣa editor-in-chief)
Nūrā ʿAlī

Head of the Tourism and Civil Aviation Committee at the House of Representatives.

Nuʿmān Jumʿa [Numan Gumaa] (Dr.)

Former Leader of al- Wafd Party

Olav Fykse Tveit (Rev., Dr.)

The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary

Olav Øygard (RT. Rev.) (Norwegian bishop)

(born 29 July 1956) is a Norwegian Lutheran prelate of the Church of Norway who serves as the Bishop of Nord-Hålogaland since 2014. Nord-Hålogaland covers Troms and Finnmark countries, and also Svalbard. Øygard is a self-described "middle of the Church" theologian.

Oriana Fallaci (Author)

Italian Journalist; author; political interviewer

Osama Al Ghazoly
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (Archbishop of San Salvador)

On 23 February 1977, Romero was appointed Archbishop of San Salvador

Otmar Oehring (Dr.)

Foreign Affairs department of Missio (1983 – 2012), Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2012 - 2021

Otto Friedrich August Meinardus (Dr.)

German Coptologist; Author; Professor; Pastor; Board member of AWR (2000-2005)

Otto G. Schily

German Minister of Interior (1998-2005); Member of SPD

P.W. Guinness (Rev.)

Priest  at St. John’s Church in Maadi

Pahor Labib [Bāhūr Labīb]
Paolo Gentiloni (Former Prime Minister of Italy)

talian politician serving as European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. He previously served as Prime Minister of Italy from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.

Parker T. Williamson (Editor)

reporter

Pārthīniyyā (Sister, Nun)

Nun

Pastor George Shakir (Secretary-General of Evangelical church) (Egypt)
Pastor jamāl Fahīm (Head of Asyūt’s Apolistic Churches)
Pastor ṣafá Walīm (Head of spiritual committees)
Pastor ʿīd Kamāl (Head of Minya& Bani suwwaif’s Apostolic churches) [Egypt]
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson (Rev.)

US Southern Baptist televangelist; Prominent political spokesman for the Christian right in U.S. politics; Founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including ACLJ, CBN; Presidential candidate in 1988

Patriarch Benjamin
Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (1933-2014)
Patriarch Moran Mor Bechara Boutros al-Rahi [Bishāra Buṭrus al-Rāʿī] (Maronite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch- Lebanon)

head of the Maronite Catholic Church

Patricia Lewis ( Nuclear Physicist)

British and Irish nuclear physicist and arms control expert. She is currently the Research Director for International Security at Chatham House.

Patrick Cockburn (Mr.)
Patrick George Zaki [Patrick George Zakī] (student)

Egyptian Masters student at "Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna" in Italy

Patrick Haenni (Dr.)

Researcher in the French Center of Economic, Juristic and Social Studies and Documentations (CEDEJ). Senior researcher at the Fondation Religioscope

Patrick Kingsley (Author, Journalist)

Migration correspondent of the Guardian Newspaper 

Patrick Sookhdeo (Dr.)

Director of the Barnabas Fund; Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity

Paul (Apostle)
Paul Anwar (Rev.)

Spokesman for the Mallawi Diocese

Paul Austin Murphy
Paul Bremer

Lewis Paul Bremer III is an American diplomat. He is best known for leading the Coalition Provisional Authority and assuming the title of Interim President of Iraq, following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, from May 2003 until June 2004.

Paul Duffill

the 2008 recipient of the Isaac Roet Prize, at the conference: "Understanding Peace, Conflict and Violence" held at Institute for Social Studies, the Hague. Paul received his prize for his essay: "A Meta-Intervention for the Israel-Palestine Conflict Incorporating Economic and Social Justice Issues". 

Paul Fahmy Iskandar

Head of the Supreme Constitutional Court

Paul Findley
Paul Findley (U.S. Congressman)

Co-founder of the Council for National Interest; U.S. House Representative from Illinois (1961-1982); Critique of U.S.-Israeli relations

Paul Franklin Perry

American author

Paul J. Cella
Paul J.Cella
Paul Marshall (Author)

Canadian Protestant; Author; Senior fellow at Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom

Paul Menitoff (Rabbi)

former executive vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. 

Paul Perry

U.S. Author

Paul Poupard (Cardinal)

President of the Pontifical Councils for Culture and Inter-religious Dialogue; Assistant to the Pope of the Vatican

Paul Richter

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