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A prominent leader of al-Qā^cidah; Amīr of Egyptian Islamic Jihād (1991-2001), became leader of  al-Qā^cidah following the death of Usama Bin Ladin on May 2, 2011

Biography of Ayman al-Zawāhirī:

http://www.arabwestreport.info/en/year-2006/week-48/biography-%C4%81yman-mu%E1%B8%A5ammad-rab%C4%AB%CA%BF-al-%E1%BA%93aw%C4%81hir%C4%AB

Ayman Rifā’ī is a  l.eader in Tawhīd wal-Jihād

A Coptic Christian from the village of Kafr Darwish in Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt. He was forcibly displaced along with five other Coptic families in May of 2015 when he allegedly posted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his Facebook page.

Journalist for Rose al-Yousuf

Journalist. 

Author

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.

the founder of Bābism; and one of three central figures of the Bahā'ī Faith (1819-1850)

Bishop of Samālūt (Egypt)

Director of Cairo center for Human Rights, Former Member of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights

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.

antiquity inspector of the Egyptian antiquity sector in the 1990s

Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Sohag (Since 1986)

4th Century hermit; Considered as the founder of Christian monasticism

Egyptian archaeologist

President of the United States between 2009 and 2017

Compass Direct correspondent for the Middle East; Author

founding director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at AUC

Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Dioceses of Rome and Turin, Italy

Former monk

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.‎

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.

Coptic Orthodox monk in the Monastery of Saint Macarius; Author

Egyptian Bahā’ī professor of dentistry at Cairo University

member of al-Nur party and former assistant President

official spokesperson for the Office of the President

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Egyptian Intellectual; Author

Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City (Since 2005)

Prime minister of Israel (1996-1999; Since 2009)

Haigazian University, Beirut

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.