His Eminence, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmad al-Tayeb, extends his sincere congratulations to the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Lieutenant General Abdel Meguid Sakr, Minister of Defense and Military...

     Dr. Reham Salama, Director of Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE), received a high-profile diplomatic delegation, comprised of representatives from several countries: Bulgaria, Germany, Singapore, New Zealand,...

     In the light of the collaboration between AL-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) and Egyptian Universities, AOCE held a symposium entitled “Religious Illiteracy and Social Media fuel Extremism” at Kafr...

      Al-A Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) in collaboration with Al-Azhar University continues its activities as part of the “Towards an Azhari Vision for Combating Extremism” initiative. AOCE...

     In collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) continues its activities as part of the initiative “Towards a Youth-Oriented Vision for Combating...

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

     Festivals and celebrations are considered one of the distinctive characteristics and key features of societies around the world as they constitute a major part of cultural fabric for people. This means that there is hardly any...