Persons

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

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Name Function
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 (b.1942)
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.

Bertus Hendriks
Betty Atherton
Beyza Bilgin (Prof.)
Bidīr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Biegel
Bigul Nājī (Bishop)

Bishop of the Church of the Great Martyr in Nāṣir in Bani Swaif

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

Billy Graham (Reverend)

American Christian evangelist and an evangelical; spiritual adviser to twelve United States presidents

Bīmin Muftāḥ (Priest)
Bīmin [Bimen] (Bishop)
Bimwā (Bishop)

Abbot of the Monastry of Saint George in al Khatatba/ al-Sādāt/ Monufia

Bin Bāz (Shaykh)
Bin Yamin (Patriarch)
Birit Nasmar

(-1966) President of Eritrean Jewish Communitiy for over 40 years

Bisāda Zakī (Father)

Former priest in Arḍ al-Liwā' / Giza; Defrocked on charges of corruption

Bīsantī (Bishop of Ḥilwān [Helwan] and al-Maʿṣarah)

Coptic Orthodox bishop of Helwan and al-Maʿṣarah (Since 1990); Secretary of Pope Shenouda III (1980 -1990)

Bishop Aghabius
Bishop Demetrious Ordains
Bishop Yoannes
Bishop AnmābƯūs
Bishop Armiyā [Secretary of Pope Shinūda III]
Bishop Athanasius of Bani Mazar and al-Banasa
Bishop Athanasius of Beni Suef [Benī Sūīf] (1923-2000)
Bishop Bakhoum
Bishop Chinchinian
Bishop Demetrius
Bishop Dimitrius
Bishop Julius Yeshu Çiçek (1942-2005)
Bishop Marcos
Bishop Marqus
Bishop Mūsá
Bishop Musa (b.1938)
Bishop Pachomius
Bishop Polycarpus Augin Aydin
Bishop Samuel (1920-1981)
Bishop Samy Fawzy Shehata [Sāmī Fawzī Shiḥāta] (Anglican)
Bishop Serabamun
Bishop Thomas (Qussia)
Bishop Wissa
Bishop Yohanna Ibrahim
Bishop Yu'annis
Bishop Zacharias of Sakhā

Medieval bishop to whom a number of Holy Family traditions have been attributed

Bishopric of Beba and El Fashn
bishops Samuel
Bīshūy Armiyā Būlus [Bishoy Armia Boulos]

Muhammad Hijāzī, born in Port Said in 1982, converted to Christianity in 1998 and changed his name to Bishoy Armia Boulos

Bīshūy Bahīj al-ʿīd

10 years old murdered in Kushh in Sohag

Bīshūy Kāmil (Father)

Late Coptic Orthodox Priest

Bīshūy Tāmrī (Bishoy Tamri)

Head of Political Communications of the Maspero Youth Union (MYU)

Bishūy Zāriʾ ʿAbd al-Ḥannūn (Coptic Student)
Bīshūy [Bishoy] Saint)
Bīshūy [Monastery of Virgin Mary in Jabal Asyūṭ] (Father)

Father Bīshūy - Monastery of Virgin Mary in Jabal Asyūt (2000)

Bīshūy‎ (late Metropolitan Bishop of Kafr al-Shaykh and Damietta‎ and former Secretary of the Holy Synod)
Bissintī (Bishop)
Boallam Ṣanṣāl (Algerian author)
Bob (b.1934)
Bob Carr (Austrialian Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Boulos al-Hadidi [Būlus al-Hadīdī] (1935-2005)
Brent Hamoud

Programs Coordinator of the Institute of Middle East Studies (IMES) at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS)

Brian Grim

President of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (USA) 

Brian Whitaker

Journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian (since 1987) and its Middle East editor (2000-2007)

Broek
Bruno Musarò (Bishop)‎

Roman Catholic archbishop and nuncio of the Vatican to Egypt [2017]

Bukharest (folkloric figure)
Būla Anwar (Reverend)

Spokesman of the Mallawī Archbishopric

Būla Fuʾād Nakhlah (Father)

Defrocked Coptic Orthodox priest in al-Bilyanā

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