Person Name / (title) Description Persons Biography Link
Abū al-‘Ilā Mādī (Eng.)

Former leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood; Assistant secretary general of the Engineering Syndicate; Founding member of the Wasaṭ Party

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Ahmad al-Tayīb (Dr.)

Grand Shaykh of the Azhar (Since 2010); Former Muftī; Former head of the Azhar's University

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Amīnah Wadūd (Dr.)

Associate professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University

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Ayman Muhammad Rabī‘ al-Zawāhirī [Ayman al-Zawāhirī]

A prominent leader of al-Qācidah; Amīr of Egyptian Islamic Jihād (1991-2001)

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Ayman Nūr (Dr.)

Egyptian politician; a former member of the Egyptian Parliament; chairman of Al-Ghad party

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Butrus (Bishop)

Coptic Orthodox General Bishop (Since 1985); Member of the Board of Advisors of AWR (Since 2002); Supervisor of the Patmos Convent; Chairman of Agape channel

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Christiaan van Nispen, S.J. (Father Dr.)

Professor of Philosophy and Islam at the Coptic Catholic Seminary in Macādī (1964-2009); Jesuit priest; AWR Board Member (since 1997).

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Cornelis Hulsman (Drs.)

Editor in Chief AWR (Former RNSAW); Director of CIDT; Secretary - General of CAWU; Secretary - General of the Foreign Press Association in Cairo; Author

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David D. Grafton

Pastor of St. Andrew’s United Church of Cairo


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Flemming Rose

Danish journalist; Author; Cultural editor at Jyllands-Posten newspaper (Since 2004)

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Hālah Mustafá (Dr.)

Political analyst; editor-in-chief of Democracy Review

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Hasan Hanafī (Dr.)

Professor of philosophy at Cairo University; Islamic thinker, prominent liberal thinker; Author

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Jacques Waardenburg

Professor at Lausanne University in Switzerland who specialized in Islamic studies

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Jamāl al-Bannā

Islamic thinker; brother of Ḥasan al-Bannā; Author

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Jerry Falwell (Rev.)

Late U.S. Christian Evangelical Baptist pastor; Televangelist; Founding pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Virginia

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John H. Watson (Rev., Dr.)

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

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Marqus (Bishop)

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


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Mary Mas‘ūd (Prof. Dr.)

Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ain Shams University

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Mattá al-Maskīn [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

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Michael Meunier (Munīr)

Founder and President of U.S. Copts Association (since 1996); Author

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