Persons

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

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Name Function
Sheikh Abdel Wahed Pallivici
Sheikh Abdul Raḥman bin Muḥammad Āl Khalīfa

The president of the High Council of Islamic Affairs in Bahrain

Sheikh Abdul Wahid
Sheikh Imam Issa
Sheikh Nahyān bin Mubārak Al-Nahyān

UAE Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence

Shems Friedlander (Author)

a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Rumi: The Hidden Treasure and When You Hear Hoofbeats Think of a Zebra, and he wrote, produced, and directed the documentary film Rumi: The Wings of Love.

Sheykh Imam (Singer)
Shiḥāta Hārūn

a Jewish-Egyptian lawyer and founding member of the Ḥizb al-Tajammuʿ  along with other Egyptian politicians. 

Shimon
Shimon Peres (President)

Prime Minister of Israel (1984-1986;1995-1996); President of Israel (Since 2007)

Shinūda (Father)
Shinūda III (Shenouda) [Naẓīr Jayyid Rūfāʾil] (Coptic Orthodox Pope 1971 -2012)

Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (1971 - 03/17/2012); Head of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Passed away on March 17, 2012.

Shireen Abu Akleh [Shīrīn Abū ʿĀklih] (1971 - 2022)

Shireen Abu Akleh was a Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for the Arabic-language channel Al Jazeera for 25 years, and was one of the most prominent names across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. She was killed by Israeli forces on May 11, 2022.

Shirīf Al-Hilali (Chairman of Arab Organization For Egyptian Civil Society)
Shīrīn (Shaykha)

Preacher

Shīrīn Barūdī

Artist. 

Shīrīn F. Ibrāhīm
Shīrīn Rabī ʿ

Author

Shīrīn Rabīʿa

Author

Shīrīn Rāghib

Author

Shīrīn Riḍā

Egyptian actress (1968-)

Shīrīn Shuʿayb [Shyreen Shaib] (Ms.)
Shīrīn ‘Ātif
Shīdā Kārān

Turkish journalist. 

Shokri Belaid
Shukhrī al-Jindī (Major-General)
Shukrī Muṣṭafā

Leader of al-Takfīr wa al-Hijra Group

Shulgi (Sumerian King)
Sīdhum Bīshūy

a Coptic saint and martyr who was accused by Muslims of cursing Islam. Bīshūy was therefore brought to trial before a Muslim religious judge, who decreed that Bīshūy must accept Islam and renounce Christianity, or else be put to death. Bīshūy refused to embrace Islam and insisted on his innocence. He was tortured and died of his injuries

Ṣidqī Ṣubḥī [Sedki Sobhy] (Colonel General)
Sigmund Freud (Dr.)

Austrian Jewish Psychologist (Begin 20th Century)

Sigrid Hunke (Dr.)

German orientalist; Author

Sigward von Laue (Dr.)
Silvano Tomassi (Archbishop)
Silvio Berlusconi (Prime Minister of Italy)

Italian politician; Prime Minister of Italy (Since 2008; 2001-2006; 1994-1995)

Silwānus (Alexandria)

General Bishop at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria

Silwānus (Luxor)

Archbishop and head of St. Pachomius the Great [Anba Bākhumiyyūs al-Shāyib] in Luxor

Simon Apiku

Author; Writer for Middle East Times magazine

Simone Osterwald
Sīnūt Ḥalīm Daws (Dr.)

member of the Shura Council (2000)

Sīnūt Ḥannā

Coptic member of Wafd party (1873-1930)

Sir Leonard Woolley
Sirābiyyūn [Serapion] (Bishop)

Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Los Angeles (Since 1995); General Bishop (1985-1995)

Sīrāfīm [Seraphim] (Bishop) (UK)

Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK (Since 1994)

Sīrāfīm [Seraphim] (Fr.) (Dayrut)

Coptic Orthodox priest in Dayrūt

Sirāphīm al-Siryānī
Sirī Shafīq

Lawyer

Sirjiyyūs Sirjiyyūs [Sergius Sergius] (Archbishop)

Archpriest

Sītī Zakī Shinūda (Dr.)

Coptic lawyer

Sjoerd Leenstra (Ambassador)
Slobodan Milošević (President of Serbia, Yugoslavia)

President of Yugoslavia (1997-2000); President of Serbia (1989-1997)

Soa’d Thabet
Socrates (Philosopher)

Classical Greek philosopher (5th Century BC)

Solafa Magdy [Sulāfa Majdī] (Egyptian journalist)

Solafa Magdy is a multimedia reporter and a human rights activist based in Cairo, Egypt. Her news reports and features have covered the political transition and social unrest in Egypt, minority rights, women's rights, education, human rights, refugees and sexual harassment in Egyptian society. She has won the 2020 Courage in Journalism Award by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF).

Soliman
Somers Clarke ‎

Somers Clarke restored many Egyptian temples in the early 20th. century. His house near Aswan is listed among Egypt's cultural monuments.

Song Aiguo (Chinese Ambassador)
Sozomen [Salminius Hermias Sozomenus] (Historian)

Salminius Hermias Sozomenus[1] (Greek: Σωζομενός; c. 400 – c. 450) was a historian of the Christian Church.

St. Augustine
St. Cyril
St. Fānā (Coptic Saint)
St. Tadrüs Al Shaṭbi Church (al-Khaṭīb Village
Stefan Weidner
Stefan Wild (Dr.)

Stefan Wild is a Professor at the University of Bonn In Germany.

Stepan Bandera (Ukrainian politician)

a Ukrainian politician and theorist of the militant wing of the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and a leader and ideologist of Ukrainian ultranationalists known for his involvement in terrorist activities.

Stephan Cook

American researcher in Middle Eastern Studies for the CFR

Stéphane Charbonnier [Charb] (Cartoonist)

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. 

Stephanie Grisham

The spokesperson of the White House

Stephen Asma
Stephen Davis

Prof Religious Studies and History and Near East at Yale University with an interest in Ancient Christianity 

Stephen Schwartz

American writer

Steve King (American Politician)

American politician, Republican Party 

Steve Negus (Journalist)

Author; Journalist for Cairo Times

Steven Emerson (Journalist)
Steven Snyder (Rev.)

Rev

Steven T. Brooke (Ph.D)

American Political Researcher 

Strabo (Greek Geographer, Philosopher, and Historian)

(64/63 B.C. - 24 A.D) Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian.

Ṣubḥī Manṣūr (Dr.)

Former professor at Azhar University and father of al-Qur’ānīyyīn; Islamic thinker

Ṣubḥī Mujāhid (Mr.)

Journalist for Rose al-Yūsuf magazine; Author

Ṣubḥī Ramzī

Deacon in the Adventist Church, Author

Ṣubḥī Ṣāliḥ

a Muslim Brotherhood member, a well known politician and a lawyer

Ṣubḥī ʿAbd al-Malak
Ṣubḥī ʿAbd al-Salām

Author

Ṣubḥī ʿUwayḍa
Ṣūfī Abū Ṭālib (Dr.)

Former head of the Egyptian parliament; Former president for Cairo University (1.27.1925 – 2.21.2008)

Sufian al-Sulaiti
Suhā Jindī (Ambassador)

The Egyptian Minister of Immigration (2022- )

Suhayl bin ʿAmrū

Suhayl ibn Amr was a prominent leader among the Quraysh, being known as the Khatib or orator of the tribe. Later he became Muslim

Suhayr al-Bābilī

Egyptian actress

Suhayr Jūda

Journalist and TV presenter

Suhayr Ramzī

Egyptian Actress

Suhayr Shamardal

Author

Suk-Jo Roh

South Korean AWR intern (2008)

Sukarno (First President of Indonesia)
Sulaymān Abū Ḥirāz (Shaykh)
Sulaymān bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (Shaykh)
Sulaymān Damīral (President of Turkey, Prime Minister of Turkey)

(1924-2015) President of Turkey (1993-2000), Prime Minister of Turkey (1991-1993)

Sulaymān Jūda

Author; Journalist for Al-Miṣrī Al-Yawm

Sulaymān Nassīm (Dr.)

Late Coptic pioneer of educational sciences; Former editor in Chief of "Madāris al-Ahād" Magazine; Professor at the Coptic Theological Institute

Sulayman Shafiq (Researcher)

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