His Eminence, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, extends his heartfelt congratulations to the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, our valiant Armed Forces, and to the great Egyptian people on the occasion...

On September 24, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) received a group of trainee Polish diplomats as part of its ongoing effort to raise awareness of the dangers of extremism and its growing impact on global stability. During the...

* AOCE warns against the graveness of ‘singing’ the Qur’an and calls for a legislation to regulate AI uses with sacred text Over the last few weeks, the Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) has been detecting...

     His Eminence, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb extends his heartfelt congratulations to the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the Islamic nation on the occasion of the birthday of the Prophet of...

     Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemns in the strongest terms the bloody massacre carried out by Zionist entity, Tuesday, in al-Mawasi camp, Khan Yunis, targeting displaced people with bombs and missiles, in an area designated as...

By: Ahmed Al-Gaisi

By: Asmaa Muhammad Yusuf

       Throughout many decades, media coverage has been portraying Islam as a violent and bloody religion whose main aim is to force all people either to adopt Islam or be killed. This is done by focusing on some extremist...

     Determining one’s identity usually involves “differentiating oneself from what one is not” (Benhabib, 1996, p. 3). Identity, as a matter of fact, involves similarity (sameness) and dissimilarity (uniqueness)...

By/ Asmaa Muhammad Yusuf