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...

      At the International Conference on Combating Islamophobia, held under the theme “Islamophobia: Concept and Practices amid the Current Global Context” and jointly organized by the Arab League and the Islamic World...

     Ever since 9/11, the word “Jihad” has come to be one of the most well-known concepts to non-Muslims. Jihad is considered the main concept that radical groups adopt as a core ideology. It is true that...

     Young people in most regions of the world, especially the Muslim world, currently face a number of changes and challenges resulting from technological developments and the expansion of online communication that made our...

     The last decades witnessed a high level of hatred and hostility toward immigrants in general and Muslim immigrants in particular. Many far right parties and fanatic politicians call for driving immigrants out and not to...

Moderation is one of the main values fostered by Islam. It is one of the objectives that Shariah came to promote in Muslims’ lives, as Ibn Ashur said, “Moderation is the first and foremost objective of Shari’ah.”[1] The...

     A well-established fact in Islam is that Prophet Muhammad, like all the Prophets and Messengers before him, calls for the same monotheistic message that clearly declares Allah, the Almighty, as the only True God deserved...