Al-Azhar Al-Sharif strongly condemns the terrorist attack that targeted a mosque in Herat, Western Afghanistan and that resulted in scores of death and injuries.   Al-Azhar meanwhile stresses that targeting houses of...

     Al-Azhar offers its heartfelt condolences to the leaders and people of Pakistan over the victims of the flood that ravaged many parts of the country and resulted in scores of deaths and injuries and left thousands of people...

     Al-Azhar condemns in the strongest terms the Zionist entity’s terrorism in Gaza, which has led to the killing and wounding of dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children and women. Al-Azhar denounces this...

     In the framework of its close monitoring of the continuous attempts to spread appalling thoughts that violate all the teachings of heavenly-revealed religions in communities, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism...

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)...