Persons

Terms:Persons

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

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Name Function
Counselor Moḥammed Abdulsalām

Secretary General of the Council of Muslim Elders

Counselor Tharwat Hammād [Egyptian Judge]
Counselor ʿAdil ʿabdil-Ḥamīd [Egyptian Minister Of Justice]
Cyril Ava Fini (Father)

Monk from Abū Fānā , witness to the attack on the monastery

D.S. Attema (Prof. Dr. Rev.)

1910-1989, during his life professor of Islam, Syrian, Aramaic, and Arabic at the Free University in Amsterdam. He taught Anton Wessels and Jan Slomp who became scholars of Islam in their own right. Wessels and Slomp read with him Al-Baydâwi’s commentary on the holy Qurân: Anwâr al-Tanzil wa asrâr al-ta’wil

Da Pusheng (Imam)

Da Pusheng (1874-1964) – influential Chinese Islamic scholar and one of the ‘Four Great Ahongs’ of the 20th century. Da was the co-founder and rector of the Islam Normal School in Shanghai. In 1955, Da accompanied Zhou Enlai to the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, where he tried to gain global Muslim support for China.

Ḍāhir Ghandūr

A Lebanese political researcher, he wrote a study entitled “Roots of Modern Democracy” which was published in 1993, particpated in a roundtable discussion initiated by AWR on the amendment of Art. 2 of the Constitution (see AWR-Paper Nr. 40 )

 

Dalāl al-Bizrī (Dr.)

Author

Dale Gavlak

Correspondent of Vatican Radio and National Public Radio (USA); Board member of AWR

Dalīl Abū Bakr (Dalil Boubakeur) (Dr.)

Head of the Islamic Representative Council, imam of Paris Grand Mosque

Dāliyyā Hilāl (Dr.)

Author

Dālyā Gūda (Dr.)
Dālyā ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd
Damaskinos Alazrai [Dhamaskīnūs al-Azraʿī] (Fr.)

Damaskinos Alazrai [Dhamaskīnūs al-Azraʿī], Secretary General of Egypt’s Council of Churches and Head of the Greek Orthodox Saint George’s Monastery in Old Cairo.

 
Damiyyānūs I (Bishop)

Greek Orthodox archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu; Abbot of St. Catherine’s Monastery in South Sinai

Dan Brown

U.S. Author; Author of 'The Davinci Code' (2003)

Dana Smillie
Danial ABDAL HAY
Daniel (Bishop of Sydney)
Daniel Barenboim (Maestro - UN Peace Envoy)
Daniel C. Kurtzer (Dr.)

U.S. Ambassador to Israel (2001-2005); Former Ambassador to Egypt

Daniel Cajuiat
Daniel Chelliah (1942-2018)
Daniel Ellsberg

American economist and activist

Daniel Pipes

U.S. academic, writer, and political commentator; pro-Israel activist

Daniel van der Meulen

Dutch diplomat and explorer, encouraged Arab-West Report's Cornelis Hulsman to focus his studies on Muslim-Christian relations.

Danish Journalist
Dāniyāl (Bishop of Bani Swayif)
Dāniyyāl (Bishop)

General Bishop for the churches of al-Macādī and Dār al-Salām (Since 1991)

Dāniyyāl al-Anṭūnī [Daniel El-Anthony] (Father)
Dāniyyāl al-Barāmūsī [Edward Israq] (Father)

Former Coptic Orthodox monk who became a Protestant pastor

Dāniyyāl Wadīʿ (Father)

Late Coptic Orthodox priest; Opponent of Pope Shenouda

Dāniyyāl [Daniel] (Prophet)

prophet 

Danny Danon

Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Daud Rahbar (Dr.)

Pakistani scholar of Islam (1926-2013), author of God of Justice (Leiden, Brill,1960). He was still a Muslim while writing this book and in 1960 wanted to end once and for all the argument of non-Muslims that God’s justice in the Qur’an can be arbitrary.

Dave Petrescue (Pastor)

Senior pastor of Macadī Community Church

Dave Trott (Republican Congressman) (USA)
David (Dāwūd) (Coptic Orthodox Bishop of New York)
David Aikman

US journalist of British origin; Author; Foreign affairs commentator

David Alton (Lord)

Lord of Liverpool

David B. Barrett (Reverend, Dr.)

After leaving the Britain’s Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1948 he continued his studies and received a  Master degree in 1952. In 1954 he  was ordained a deacon at the Church of England and a priest in 1955. Afterwards, he was appointed as a missionary through the Church Missionary Society in 1956. He co-authored the World Christian Encyclopedia of 1982 which is highly controversial when it comes to the number of (Coptic) Christians living in Egypt.

David Bedein

Director of Israel Resource News Agency (IRNA) and Center for Near East Policy Research (CFNEPR)

David Ben-Gurion (Prime Minister)

First prime minister of Israel (1953-1963)

David Benjamin Keldani [ʿAbd al-Aḥad Dāwūd] (Priest)
David Blunkett (PC)

British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for (MP) Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough

David Cameron (Prime Minister)

David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between May 11, 2010 and July 13, 2016. He was also leader of the Conservative Party.

David Conner (Bishop, Dean of Windsor - U.K.)
David Cook (Prof.)

professor of religion at Rice University, USA, specializing in Islam. Author of Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature, Syracuse University Press, 2005.

David D. Arnold

President of the American University in Cairo (Since 2003)

David D. Grafton

Pastor of St. Andrew’s United Church of Cairo


Biography

David Grant
David Horowitz
David Irving

British writer specializing in the military history of World War II

David Levy (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel)

He is an Israeli Politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel.

David Lipton‎ (IMF)
David Patrick Paul Alton (Lord)

British politician; former Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) who now sits as cross bench member of the House of Lords

David Shenk
David Sims
David van der Meulen

Witness of the Luxor attack in 1997. Travelled together with Saskia van der Mast. They met with Beatrix of the Netherlands during her state visit.

David Weaver
David Welch
David Welch (Dr.)

U.S. Diplomat; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (2005-2008); Ambassador to Egypt (2001-2005)

Dāwūd al-Bāz

Professor of law at Damanhour University

Dāwūd al-Shariyyān
Dāwūd Buṭrus (Father)

Father

Dāwūd Ghaṭās Ayyūb (Sr., Father)
Dāwūd Lamʿī (Pastor)
Dāwūd Tādrus (Father, Archpriest)

Patriarchal deputy in Cairo

Dayr al-Barshā)
Dean Pruitt
Dean ʿ Aṣim ḥamza [Director Of Suhāj's Criminal Prosecutions]
Deborah Tannen

Sociolinguistics and discourse analysis expert at Georgetown University, USA. One of the Professors of Prof. Dr. Hassan Wagieh at Georgetown University.

Deng Xiaoping (Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission of the Communist Party of China)

Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) – Paramount Leader of China between 1978 and 1992. Deng initiated large-scale economic and political reform, relinking China to the world economy. Due to this reason, Deng is generally attributed with China’s ‘economic miracle’ and rapid development

Denis Pryen (French Author)

director of Librairie Editions L’Harmattan in France

Derek Plumbly (Sir)

British diplomat; Chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission in Sudan (Since 2008); Ambassador to Egypt (2003-2008); Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2000-2003)

Derk Walters (Journalist)
Desmond Tutu

South African Archbishop (b.1931) 

Despina Khasiogro

The Greek Consulate in Alexandria

Detlef Mueller (Prof.)
Deutero-Isaiah

Prophet belonging to the school of Isaiah’s disciples, author of a section of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah (chapters 40–55) that is later in origin than the preceding chapters, though not as late as the following chapters.

Diana al-Ḍabaʿa

Author; Journalist

Diana Michaelis
Diana Moore (Mariam Danelou)
Diana Serodio
Diarmuid Martin (Archbishop of Dublin - Ireland)
Dick Cheney (Vice President)

The 46th Vice President of the United States (2001-2009) under George W. Bush

Dieter Tewes

Consultant at the Catholic Diocese of Osnabrueck, Germany

Dimitri Damianos (Archbishop of St. Catherine’s Monastery)
Dīmitriyyūs (Bishop of Mallawī and Ashmūnīn)
Dīmitriyyūs II [Demetrius II] (Patriarch of Alexandria)

Bishop of Mallawī and al-Ashmūnīn (Since 1986)

Dimitry Netsvetaev (Archpriest)
Dimiyāna Bibārī Bilqās (Saint)
Dimiyāna ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Nūr

teacher in luxor

Dīnā al-Bawāb [Dina el-Bawab]
Dīnā Amīn [Dina Amin]

Coptic woman from al-Mahallah / Gharbiya / Nile Delta , disappeared according to Sawt al-Ummah, on October 9, 2005 

Dīnā Būshkūsh [Dina Bouchkouch]
Dīnā Ḥassan

Translator at AWR; Author

Dīnā Majdī (Dermatologist)
Dīnā Tādrūs
Dīnā Tawfīq

Author

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