Persons

Terms:Persons

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

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Name Function
Wajīh Khayr Iqlādīyyūs

Former member of the Supreme Council of the Wafd Party

Walīd al-Baylī (Counselor)
Walīd al-Ḥaddād (Dr.)

Coordinator of the Foreign Relations’ Committee of the Freedom and Justice party (FJP)

Walīd Fārūq (NADRF)
Walīd ibn Rayyān
Walīd Ismāʿīl [Walid Ismael]

Salafi sheikh

Walīd Shalabī
Walīd Tūghān

Author; Journalist

Walīd ʿAbd al-Āwal

MP for the al-Nūr Party

Walīd ʿUrābī

Author

Walter Bate

literary critic, and biographer at Harvard University, criticizing historical criticism in literature, He severely attacked, what he termed as a school of deconstructionism, considering it as “ nihilistic, whimsical and abstruse.”

Walter Laqueur

American historian

Walter Rich
Wasfī Nāshid

President of the High State Security Court

Wāsif Buṭrus Ghālī

Diplomat; Scholar; Author; Son of assassinated Egyptian Prime Minister Buṭrus Ghālī

Wassīm al-Sīsī (Dr.)

Physician; Researcher in Egyptology; Author

Wassīm Fahīm
Wayṣa Fawzī [Member of Maspiro youth union]
Wāʾil al-Ḥaḍarī

Author

Wāʾil al-Bashīr

Author

Wāʾil al-Ḍabʿa Mīkhāʾīl

Killed in the incidents of al-Kushh / Sohag (January 2000)

Wāʾil al-Ibrāshī (Mr.)

Journalist; Editor-in-Chief for Ṣawt al-Ummah newspaper; Presenter of al-Ḥaqīqah TV Show

Wāʾil Ghālī

legal consultant and representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church 

Wāʾil Ghunīm [Wael Ghoneim]

Egyptian political activist, administrator of the Facebook page ‘We are all Khaled Said'

Wāʾil Ḥadāra [Wael Haddara]

Former advisor to President Mursi, member of Parliamentarians Against the Coup

Wāʾil Ḥassan [Wael Hassan]
Wāʾil Iskandar [Wael Eskander]

Journalist present during the attack on the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in April 2015

Wāʾil Luṭfī

Author; Journalist

Wāʾil Qandīl
Wāʾil ʿAbbās
internet activist playing a role in the Egyptian revolution of January 25, 2011
Wāʾil ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ

Author; Journalist

Wāʾil ʿAlī

Author

Weissa Wassef
Wenzel Michalski
Wijbren Jongsma

retired professor old English, University of Amsterdam

Wilhelm II (German emperor)
Wiliyam al-Mīrī (Dr.)

Journalist; Former University Professor

Wiliyam Sulaymān Qīlāda (Dr.)

Late Coptic Orthodox scholar; Judge; Author; Historical researcher

Wiliyam Wīṣā (Dr.)

Author; Journalist; media expert

Willebrands
Willem J.T.M. Kuiper
Willem T.J.M. Kuiper (Dr.)

Dutch scholar of Medieval literature, emeritus assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Willem van`t Spijker (Prof., Dr.)
William Burns (Amb.)
William Dalrymple (Historian)

A multiple-award winning historian and travel writer

William E. Koehn
William Eugene Blackstone (Evangelist, Zionist)

19th Century U.S. Methodist preacher; Christian Zionist

William Franklin Graham III (Rev.)

American Christian evangelist and missionary; President and CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and the international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse

William G. Boykin (Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Intelligence)

Deputy undersecretary of defense

William J. van den Heuvel (Ambassador)
William James Durant

U.S. Historian and philosopher; author of ’The Story of Civilization’

William Jefferson Clinton [Bill Clinton] (President)

President of the USA (1993- 2001); Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation; UN special envoy to Haiti (since 2009)

William Leister (Dr.)

U.S. author and historian living in Cairo

William Montgomery Watt (Dr.)

Late Scottish historian; Emeritus Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Edinburgh University

William Pfaff

U.S. author; Journalist and Columnist for a.o. The Herald Tribune

William Shaiboub Arsal
William Soliman Qelada
Winfried Schulz (Sociologist)
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (Prime Minister of Great Britain)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a politician and  Prime Minister of Great Britain  (1940 - 1945/ 1951 - 1955)

Wīṣā (Bishop of al-Balyanā, Sohag)

Bishop of al-Balyanā / Sohag (Since 1975)

Wīṣā Wāṣif

Prominent Coptic member of the National Party (1873-1931)

Wissām Muḥammad al-Duwīnī

Egyptian AWR Intern (DEDI program 2006)

Wiʾām Suwaylam [Diplomat] (Egypt)
Wolfgang Häde
Wolfgang Schäuble (German Minister of Finance)

German Minister of Finance (Since 2009); Minister of the Interior (2005-2009); Member of the CDU party

Wolfram Reiss (Rev., Dr. )

German scholar (focused on intercultural dialogue); Pastor

Woodrow Wilson (U.S. President)

President of the USA (1913-1921); President of Princeton University (1902-1910)

Xavier Abu Eid [Xavier Abū ʿĪd]

a Palestinian from Bayt Jala, was born in Chile and worked as a consultant in the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and a member of the General Assembly of the Ecumenical Sabil Center for Liberation Theology. He holds a Master’s degree in Mediation in Peace Processes from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland, another Master’s degree in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Leicester in Britain, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Diego Portales University in Chile.

Yacobus
Yael Lerer

Publisher/activist who was born in Tel Aviv in the late 1960s and since 2002 head of Andalus, a small Israeli press dedicated exclusively to publishing contemporary Arabic literature in Hebrew.

Yahia Pallavicini
Yaḥiyā al-Jamāl (Dr.)

Prominent judicial figure; Professor of Constitution law; Former Minister

Yaḥiyā al-Kishk

Governor of Asyut

Yaḥiyā al-Rakhāwī (Dr.)

Psychiatrist; Author

Yaḥiyā Ḥalīm (Dr.)
Yaḥiyā Ḥamad [Yahia Hamed]

Minister of Investment, installed by then president Muhammad Mursi in 2013

Yaḥiyā ibn al-Baṭrīq
Yaḥiyā Ismāʿīl Ḥablūsh (Dr.)

Former Secretary General of the Azhar Islamic Scholar's Front; lecturer of Ḥadith at the Azhar University

Yaḥiyā Qadrī
Yaḥiyā Qallāsh (Mr.)

Secretary-General of the Press Syndicate; Author

Yaḥiyā Zakariyyā Ghānim
Yaḥyā Mūsā (Ḥasm) [Yaḥyā al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm Mūsā]
Yahya Pallavicini
Yahyâ Sergio Yahe Pallavicini (Dr.)
Yahyá Tadrous
Yārā Sallām

She is an activist and a feminist, founder of Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights ( EIPR, founded in 2002)

Yashūʿa Jamāl Nāshid
Yāsīn al-Tuhāmī (Shaykh)
Yāsir al-Zayyāt

Author

Yāsir Anwar
Yāsir Ayyūb
Yāsir Burhāmī (Shaykh)

Vice President of the Salafist Call

Yāsir Jum'ah [An Egyptian State Security Colonel]
Yāsir Naṣr (Dr.)

Author

Yāsir Shadīd ʿAllām

Eyewitness of murder in al-Kushḥ / Sohag in 1998

Yāsir Tawfīq ʿAlī al-Sirrī

Egyptian militant connected to Al-Jamācah al-Islāmīyah; Former director of the Islamic Information Centre in England

Yāsir Yātīs

Turkish ambassador to Egypt (-1997)

Yāsir ʿAbbās (Prof.)

Sudanese Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources

Yāsir ʿAlī

spokesperson of Muhamed Mursi

Yāsir ʿIlwī (Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon)

Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon

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