Persons

Terms:Persons

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

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Name Function
Samuel Tāḍrus
Ṣamūʾīl al-Buḥayrī (Fr.)

priest of the ʿIzbat al-Nakhl region

Ṣamūʾīl al-Tūmāsī (Monk)

one of the fathers of the Monastery of Saint Thomas [[Dayr Anbā Thomas al-Sā’iḥ]

Ṣamūʾīl al-ʿAshāy

Author

Ṣamūʾīl Ḥabīb [Samuel Habib] (Rev., Dr.)

Founder of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Service; Former Head of the Evangelical Church in Egypt

Ṣamūʾīl Khūrī (Rev., Dr.)

Pastor of the National Evangelical Church

Ṣamūʾīl Luṭfī Ṣādiq (Rev.)

Pastor of the Evangelical Church in Shubrā Author

Ṣamūʾīl Mashriqī (Rev.)

Head of the Pentecostal Church in Egypt; Head of the Khamsini; Assemblies of God Council; Pastor

Ṣamūʾīl of ʿIzbat al-Aqbāṭ (Father)
Ṣamūʾīl Ṣubḥī

Coptic activist

Ṣamūʾīl [Samuel] (Bishop of Shibīn al-Qanāṭir, Khānkah and Ṭūkh)

Late Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Shibīn al-Qanāṭir, Khānkah and Ṭūkh (1992-2003)

Ṣamūʾīl [Samuel] (Coptic Orthodox Bishop for General and Social Services)

Coptic Orthodox Bishop for General and Social Services (1962-1981); Assassinated in 1981

Samʿān al-Kharrāz [Simon the Tanner] (Saint)
Samʿān Shiḥātah Rizq Allāh (Father)

Brother of the assassinated Samaan Shihatah. He lives in Vienna

Samʿān Shiḥātah‎ (Father)

stabbed to death by an extremist on October 12, 2017

Sanāʾ al-Bannā (Dr.)
Sanāʾ al-Saʿīd

Author; Journalist

Sanāʾ Faraj

Sanāʾ Farag was the human resources manager at the Sheraton Hotel in Cario during the 90s.

Sanāʾ Hashīsh
Sanāʾ Jamīl

Coptic actress (1930-2002)

Sanāʾ Yūsuf

Author

Sanā’ Seif

Political Activist

Sander (b.1941)
Saniyya Maḥmūd
Sanna Plieschenegger
Sāra al-Shāfiʿī (Dr.)
Sara J. Bloomfield
Sara Rushdy
Sārā Subḥī

Young Coptic woman, allegedly abducted, reported as such by her mother Yvonne Sidqī [Ref. AWR 2006, week 32, art. 17 and: Arab-West Report, Paper 6, p. 16 ]

 

Sāra Tawfīq Ayūb

Sāra Tawfīq Ayūb, 21-year-old, Coptic gir disappeared on December 12, 2021 in mysterious circumstances, while she was on her way to the church.

Sāra Yūsuf [Sarah Youssef]

20 year old student, spokesperson for ‘Students against the Coup’ at the Azhar University

Sāra ʿAllām

Journalist at al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ

Ṣarābāmūn (Bishop)

Head of the Monastery of Saint Bishoi

Ṣarābāmūn Abū Ṭarḥa (Saint)

The Bishop of Minūfiya in the 19th centuray. 

Sarah El-Amin [Sāra al-Amīn]

an activist in Africa’s development and environment, whose charity work is concentrated in Kenya and the founder of Happy Africa organisation. She's also selected to be ambassador for the initiative “One Egyptian woman is worth 100 men”.

Sarah Hegazy [Sārah Ḥijāzī]

Queer Egyptian activist and defender of gay rights died on June 2020

Sarah Leah Whitson (HRW)
Saskia van der Mast

Witness of the Luxor attack in 1997. She travelled together with David van der Meulen. They met with Beatrix of the Netherlands during her state visit.

Sasson Somekh (Prof.)

an Israeli academic, writer and translator.

Sāwīrūs (Bishop of Dayr al Muḥarraq)
Sāwīrus Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Bishop of al-Ashmūnīn )

10th Century Coptic Orthodox Bishop of al-Ashmūnīn; Historian; Author of "History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria"

Sawsan al-Abṭaḥ

Author

Sawsan al-Jayyār

Author; Journalist

Sawsan Gabra
Sawsan Jabrā Ayyūb Khalīl [Sawsan Hulsman] (Eng.)

Head of CIDT; Co-founder of AWR (Former RNSAW); Chairwoman of CAWU

Biography

Sawsan Shalabī
Sayed Hegab
Sayf al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ (Dr.)

Dean of the faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University

Sayidouna Aissa
Sayidouna Mohamed Peace Be Upon Him
Sayioduna Adam
Sayyid Abū al-Āʿalā Mawdūdī [Mawdudi] (Shaykh)

Founder of Muslim revivalist Party Jamaat e-Islami in Pakistan

Sayyid Abū al-Wafā ʿAjjūr (Shaykh)

Former head of the Fatwá Committee; Former Secretary General of the Islamic Research Academy

Sayyid al-Khammār

Author

Sayyid al-Maṣrī [Sayyed al-Masri] (General)

Egyptian Air Force Chief in 2011

Sayyid al-Najjār (Dr.)

Late Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cairo University; Deputy Director of the Research Division at (UNCTAD); Executive Director of the World Bank; President of the New Civic Forum (1991-2004)

Sayyid al-Qabānjī [Sayid Al-Qabanji]

Iraqi Shi’a cleric who believed that one should read the Qur’an in historical context. In 2014 he was serving a prison service for this in Iran.

Sayyid al-Qimnī (Dr.)

Author; secularist scholar of Islamic and Jewish history

Sayyid al-Saylī
Sayyid Ghannām

Author

Sayyid Ḥijāb

He is the esteemed Egyptian poet and winner of the 2013 State Appreciation Award in Literature. 

Sayyid Ḥulwah

Author

Sayyid Ḥussayn Naṣr (Dr.)
Sayyid Imām al-Sharīf

Egyptian professor engaged in pro-Jihadi polemics

Sayyid Imām ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (Dr.)

Ideologue of the Jihād Organization

Sayyid M. Sayyid (Dr.)

former general secretary of the ISNA and now head of the Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances in Washington.

Sayyid Marʿī (Dr.)

Former speaker of the People’s Assembly of Egypt (1977); Professor of education in al-Azhar University; Friend of President Sadat.

Sayyid Muḥammad Fāʾiq
Sayyid Muḥī al-Dīn Shihāb

former Sunni militia leader and one time mayor of Beirut

Sayyid Muṣṭafā
Sayyid Quṭb

Former supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood; Ideologist of the Muslim Brotherhood; Author and Islamic Scholar

Sayyid Rizq al-Ṭawīl (Dr.)

Former dean of the Faculty of Islamic and Arab Studies in al-Azhar University

Sayyid Ṣābiq (Shaykh)

Egyptian Imam and author of "The Fiqh of the Sunna"; Mufti of the Muslim Brotherhood

Sayyid Sayyid ʿAbbās
Sayyid Tawfīq

A journalist, particpated in a roundtable discussion initiated by AWR on the amendment of Art. 2 of the Constitution (see AWR-Paper Nr. 40 )

 

Sayyid Yāssīn (Dr.)
Sayyid ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Hillāl
Sayyid ʿAbd al-Khālid [Sayyid Abdel Khaled]

Minister for Higher Education (2014)

Sayyid ʿAbd al-Khāliq

Author; Lawyer

Sayyid ʿAbd al-ʿĀṭī

Author

Sayyid ʿAlī
Sayyid ʿAskar (Shaykh)

Member of the People’s Assembly, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood; former assistant secretary- general of the Islamic Research Academy in the Azhar

Sayyida Ibrāhīm Ramaḍān
Sayyida Ismāʿīl Kāshif (Dr.)
Ṣayyidā, Samīra & Hind: Leiden University students

Studying Arabic at Leiden University

Saʿad Abū Rīda

Governor of the Red Sea Area (at least at the time of 1998)

Saʿad al-Dīn al-Hilālī [Saad Edin al-Helaly]

Sa’d al-Dīn al-Hilālī, is a professor of comparative jurisprudence at the Azhar University.

 

 

Saʿad al-Dīn Ibrāhīm [Saad Eddin Ibrahim] (Dr.)
a sociology professor at the American University founder of Ibn Khaldūn Center for Development Studies and democratization activist. Involved in a dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood in 2005.
Saʿad al-Dīn Shādhilī

Egyptian military commander

Saʿad al-Ḥussaynī
Saʿad Fakhrī ʿAbd al-Nūr

One of the leaders in al wafd party

Saʿad G. Ḥattar

Author

Saʿad Ḥabīb
Saʿad Hajras

Journalist, Editor-in-chief of al-cĀlam al-Yawm

Saʿad Ḥasab Allāh

Lawyer; Member of the defense team in the case of Hizbollah cell

Saʿad Ibn Abī Waqqāṣ

Sa’d Ibn Abi Waqqas (595-674) – the maternal uncle of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) and one of the earliest followers of Islam. According to the Huihui Yuanlai legend, Sa’d Ibn Abi Waqqas was sent to China by Prophet Muhammed to spread Islam. He is credited with constructing the first mosque of China in Guangzhou.

Saʿad Mīkhāʾīl Saʿad (Dr.)

Author; Chairman of the Coptic Studies Council at Claremont Graduate University

Saʿād Sāliḥ Jabr (Iraq)

From the opposition to Ṣaddām Ḥussaīn.  His father was a Prime Minister under the Kingdom of Iraq.

Saʿad Zaghlūl

 

Egyptian revolutionary against the British protectorate, statesman,  prime minister  in 1924, and leader of the Wafd Party.

 

Saʿad ʿAzīz

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