Persons
Terms:Persons
List of persons names (and their functions) used in AWR-Articles
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| Name | Function |
|---|---|
| Ayman ʿAbd al-Jawwād | |
| Ayman ʿAbd al-Majīd |
Journalist for Rose al-Yousuf |
| Ayman ʿAbd al-Munʿim (Dr.) |
(Governor of Suhāj)-Egypt 2017 |
| Ayman ʿAbd al-Raḥīm |
Journalist. |
| Ayman ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Bashbīshī |
Author |
| Ayman ʿAbd ar-Rasūl | |
| Ayman ʿAlī |
Vice President of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe |
| Aymān ʿĀshūr |
Author |
| Ayman ʿAṭīyah | |
| Ayman ʿŪdah [Ayman Odeh] |
an Israeli Arab lawyer and politician. The leader of the Hadash party, he is currently a member of the Knesset and head of the Joint List alliance. |
| Ayyūb Masīḥah (Father) |
Author |
| Ayyūb Zakī Yūsuf (Father) | |
| Aziz Khalīl | |
| Bāb [Sayyid ʿAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī] |
the founder of Bābism; and one of three central figures of the Bahā'ī Faith (1819-1850) |
| Babnūda [Paphnotius/Baphnotius] (Bishop) |
Bishop of Samallūṭ (Since 1976); Author |
| Badr Ḥilmī [Badr Helmi] | |
| Badr Muḥammad Badr |
Member of the Muslim Brotherhood; Journalist; Author |
| Bafnutiyyūs [Paphnotius] (Bishop) |
Bishop of Samālūt (Egypt) |
| Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Shaqa |
Prominent lawyer, leading Wafd Party member |
| Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ḥassan (Dr.) |
Director of Cairo center for Human Rights, Former Member of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights |
| Bahāʾ Allāh [Mirzā Husayn ‘Alī Nūrī] |
The founder of the Bahā'ī Faith; claimed to be the prophetic fulfilment of Bābism and a messenger from God referring to the fulfilment of the eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity, and other major religions (1817-1892) |
| Bahāʾ Bakrī [Baha' Bakry] | |
| Bahāʾ Ramzī [Head of Holland’s Coptic institute] | |
| Bahāʾ Ṭāhir [Bahaa Taher] |
Bahāʾ Ṭāhir is an Egyptian writer, mostly known for novels and short stories written in English. He was banned from writing in 1975 and therefore decided to travel abroad and work as a translator. From the 1980s to the 1990s he worked as a translator for the United Nations in Switzerland. He was awarded the inaugural International Price in Arabic Fiction in 2008. Politically, he considers himself a Pan-Arabist. In his works, he refuses to apply stereotypical writing and portraying clichés about arabic countries and culture. |
| Baher Dokhan | |
| Bahgat Abdu Fanous [Bahjat ʿAbduh Fānūs] | |
| Bahib al Sima; Barsoum El-Muharraqi | |
| Bahiyya Shiḥāb [Bahia Shahab] (Artist) | |
| Baḥir Ḥamdī Dukhān |
Translator at AWR (2008); Egyptian AWR Intern (DEDI program 2007) |
| Bākhūm (Bishop of Sūhāj) |
Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Sohag (Since 1986) |
| Bākhūm [Pachomius] (Bishop of Baḥīrah and Maṭrūḥ) |
Metropolitan of El-Beheira and the 5 western cities (Since 1971). He became the Coptic Orthodox Church acting Patriarch after the death of Pope Shenouda III in March 2012. He was unanimously chosen by members of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church. |
| Bākhūm [Pachomius] (Saint) |
4th Century hermit; Considered as the founder of Christian monasticism |
| Bākīnām al-Sharqāwī [Pakinam al-Sharqawi] (Dr.) | |
| Balāmūn (Archbishop) | |
| Bandar bin Sultān bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Saʿud (Prince) | |
| Banūb Ḥabashī |
Egyptian archaeologist |
| Baqīʿa Ṣadaqa Jirjis (Rev.) |
Head of the Evangelical Church in Asyut |
| Barack Obama (U.S. 44th Pres.) | |
| Baraka Maḥmūd Yūsuf Abū Ṣāliḥa |
leaders of terror organization. |
| Barbara Baker |
Compass Direct correspondent for the Middle East; Author |
| Barbara Ibrāhīm |
founding director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at AUC |
| Barnābā (Father) |
Egypt |
| Barnābā (Bishop) |
Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Dioceses of Rome and Turin, Italy |
| Barṣūm (Father) | |
| Barsūm al-Muḥarraqī |
Former monk |
| Bartholomew I (Archbishop) |
Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch (Since 1991) |
| Bas Belder (Mr.) | |
| Bas Plaisier (Rev. Dr.) |
Former Secretary-General of the Dutch Protestant Church |
| Basantaʿūs (Saint) |
one of the saints of the Coptic Orthodox Church, who died in 631 AD. His remains were found discovered during the restoration work in the monastery earing his name in the Upper-Egyptian diocese of Qift in 2018. |
| Baselios Marthoma Paulose II | |
| Bashār al-Assad (President of Syria) |
the 19th and current President of Syria, holding the office since 17 July 2000. He is also commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, General Secretary of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Regional Secretary of the party's branch in Syria. He is a son of Hafez al-Assad, who was President of Syria from 1971 to 2000. |
| Bashīr al-ʿAdl |
Author |
| Bashīr ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ | |
| Bashīr ʿAbd al-Rāziq |
Editor, Particpated in a roundtable discussion initiated by AWR on the amendment of Art. 2 of the Constitution (see AWR-Paper Nr. 40) |
| Basidilcan | |
| Bāsil al-Ḍabʿ |
Cairo-based writer and editor, contributor to TIMEP and previously Politics Editor at Daily News Egypt |
| Basilides (Saint) | |
| Basilius (Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch) | |
| Bāsīliyyūs al-Maqārī (Father Basilios or Basilius) |
Coptic Orthodox monk in the Monastery of Saint Macarius; Author |
| Bāsim Naʿīm | |
| Basma Mūsā (Dr.) |
Egyptian Bahā’ī professor of dentistry at Cairo University |
| Basma William |
Author |
| Bassām al-Zarqā |
member of al-Nur party and former assistant President |
| Bassām Quṭb | |
| Bassām Rāḍī |
official spokesperson for the Office of the President |
| Bāssim Mursī |
Zamalek Football Team |
| Bāssim N. Hāfīẓ |
Author |
| Bāssim ʿAwda [Bassim Auda] | |
| Basyūnī al-Ḥalawānī |
Author |
| Bat Ye’or [Gisèle Littman] (Dr.) |
Egyptian-born British scholar; Historian on non-Muslims in the Middle East; Author |
| Bayyūmī Qandīl (Dr.) |
Egyptian Intellectual; Author |
| Beate Seel (Mrs.) | |
| Beatrice de Graaf (Prof.) | |
| Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands (Queen) |
Beatrix of the Netherlands was born on the 31st of January, 1938. She reigned as queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013. |
| Belgian Woman | |
| Benazir Bhutto (Prime Minister of Pakistan) |
First female Prime minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996) |
| Benedict XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger] (Pope) |
Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City (Since 2005) |
| Benjamin I (Pope) |
Pope |
| Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel) |
Prime minister of Israel (1996-1999; Since 2009) |
| Benny Gantz |
Israeli soldier and politician and leader of Blue and White party |
| Benoît Forget | |
| Benyāmīn (Bishop of Cyprus) |
Excommunicated bishop of St. Bula Monastery, Bishop of Cyprus. |
| Berge Traboulsi (Prof., Dr.) |
Haigazian University, Beirut |
| Bernard Lewis (Dr.) |
U.S. historian; Orientalist; Political commentator; Professor at Princeton University (1974-1986) |
| Bernard Verlhac (Tignous) |
Staff-member of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, he was killed in a shooting on January 7 in 2015 along with several of his colleagues. Two terrorists who affiliated themselves to al-Qaeda in Yemen commited the attack. |
| Bernd Erbel (Amb.) | |
| Bernd van der Meulen (Prof., Dr.) | |
| Bernhard Reitsma |
Head of the research center Open Doors (2008), professor by special appointment for research of the Church in the context of Islam at the Free University of Amsterdam |
| Bert Dorenbos (Dutch television presenter) |
director of the Evangelische Omroep (Evangelical Broadcasting company) from 1974 to 1987 |
| Bert van Voorden |
former SGP mayor of Rijssen |
| Berta Koolstra |
Mother Koolstra Family, kidnapped in Yemen by tribe, 1999. |
| Betty Atherton | |
| Beyza Bilgin (Prof.) | |
| Bidīr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz | |
| Bījīmī al-Anbā Būlā (Father) |
Two martyrs church |
| Bilāl (first mūʾadhin in Islam) | |
| Bilāl al-Ḍāwī |
Author; Journalist |
| Bilāl Faḍl [Belal Fadl] |
Egyptian author |
| Bill Cotterell | |
| Bill Fryda (Father) |
Catholic medical doctor and priest working in Kenya |
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