Celebrating the International Day of Human Solidarity, Al-Azhar Observatory: “It is one of the fundamental values underlying relations between peoples”     On the 20th of December, the world celebrates the...

     Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism lauds the statements made by His Excellency Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace on Monday....

     His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar received yesterday France's Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian and the accompanying delegation at Al-Azhar Headquarters. During the meeting, the Grand Imam of...

     His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharīf, Professor Ahmed Al-Tayeb, strongly condemns the terrorist attacks took place in the heart of the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Monday night and left at least three people dead...

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)...