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...

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq  President of Al-Azhar Center for Dialogue      1- God created man and established him as His vicegerent on earth and made the universe with its heavens and earth and all that...

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq President of Al-Azhar Center for Dialogue Edited by: Dr. Kamal Boraiqa Abdelsalam Hassan 1- There are many non-Muslims who have misunderstood the concept of Jihad in Islam. They even mistranslated the word...

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq

     As the pace of Zionist Judaization of Jerusalem accelerates; Zionist attacks on Islamic sanctities, including the blessed mosque of al-Aqsa in Al-Haram Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) are increasing. Additionally, Zionist...

    Al-Quds (Jerusalem) is a holy city for all Muslims. It derives its holiness from several religious and historical factors, including the following: The First Qiblah The first thing Jerusalem stands for in Muslims’...