Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) is closely monitoring the shooting incident that took place on Monday, July 28, 2025, inside an administrative building Manhattan, New York City, which resulted in the death...

     Dr. Reham Salama, the executive director of the Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism, delivered an informative lecture, entitled “Extremist Organizations' Exploitation of Religion to achieve Political...

     As part of the collaboration between the Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) and the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Egypt, three researchers from AOCE participated in several seminars at the...

     As a part of its ongoing initiative, “Together…Safe Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence,” Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE), in collaboration with the Masaena Foundation for Youth and...

     Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism strongly condemns the heinous racist attack targeting the newly established mosque of the Islamic Association in the town of Piera, located approximately 50 kilometers west of...

     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...