As part of its sustained efforts to promote dialogue and understanding among peoples of different cultural backgrounds, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) participated in a panel discussion titled...

     His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmad Al-Tayeb, extends his sincere congratulations to His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and to the Arab and Islamic...

     As a significant step within the project of “Together...Safe Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence,” Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE), in collaboration with the “Masaena Foundation for Youth...

     Al-Azhar Al-Sharif expresses its solidarity with the state of Qatar, calling for respecting the independence and sovereignty of all nations over their entire lands. Al-Azhar believes that the clash of weapons does not stop...

    In collaboration with the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services in Cairo, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) hosted representatives of European and Arab civil society to promote religious and cultural...

(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...

     It is a mistake to believe that the terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, which killed 50 Muslims and injured 50 others, were an isolated event. Just before the shootings unfolded, Brenton Tarrant, the...