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...

     The Rohingya population, who have fled their country to escape the persecution and brutality of the Burmese authorities, at whose hands they were put to the scourge of murder, burning, torture and rape, are still...

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq- President of Al-Azhar Center for Dialogue

By: Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq President of Al-Azhar Center for Dialogue       If we look at present-day life, we can see that the problem of peace now preoccupies or at least concerns more or less the whole...

By: Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq President of Al-Azhar Center for Dialogue   Only the language of peace, i.e. a truly just action and the striving towards it, can lead to the rational development of man and to understanding among...

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq  President of Al-Azhar Center for Dialogue        1- Islam is the only religion which has elevated the status of the human mind and declared its importance. The human mind is...