His Eminence, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmad al-Tayeb, extends his sincere congratulations to the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Lieutenant General Abdel Meguid Sakr, Minister of Defense and Military...

     Dr. Reham Salama, Director of Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE), received a high-profile diplomatic delegation, comprised of representatives from several countries: Bulgaria, Germany, Singapore, New Zealand,...

     In the light of the collaboration between AL-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) and Egyptian Universities, AOCE held a symposium entitled “Religious Illiteracy and Social Media fuel Extremism” at Kafr...

      Al-A Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) in collaboration with Al-Azhar University continues its activities as part of the “Towards an Azhari Vision for Combating Extremism” initiative. AOCE...

     In collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) continues its activities as part of the initiative “Towards a Youth-Oriented Vision for Combating...

     ISIS, as a terrorist militant entity, cannot be viewed separately from its ideological identity, on which its members base their practices and orientations. Like almost all the other so-called jihadi groups, ISIS adopts the...

(1) The Quran

     All the time, human beings develop a sense of belonging. It is natural for one to incline to people who have the same line of thought, behaviors, attitudes, interests, etc. The real problem occurs when a group of people who...

     In the tenth year after Hijrah (632 CE), Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) sat out in a journey from Medina to Mecca in order to perform pilgrimage for the first and last time in his whole life. On the ninth day of Dhul Hijjah, known as...

This report will attempt to present the definition of poverty, its dangers and how Islam tackles and provides solutions to this phenomenon. It will then proceed to show how poverty relates, directly or indirectly, to extremism and terrorism and...