His Eminence Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb welcomed H.E. Mr.  Maurizio Massari the Ambassador of Italy in Cairo. During the meeting they discussed the bilateral relations between Al-Azhar Al-Shareef and Italy. Mr. Maurizio...

Daily News Egypt Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb and Grand Mufti of Egypt Shawky Allaam met on Wednesday with British and Italian diplomats in Egypt to discuss steps being taken regarding religious extremism. Al-Tayeb met with...

ahramonline The Permanent Committee for Islamic and Coptic Antiquities approved the restoration project of Al-Azhar Mosque after a Saudi Arabian contractor company provided the required funding. Mostafa Amin, secretary general of the...

  In emphasis of Al-Azahar role in spreading the sound and moderate Islamic teachings and rejuvenating its misunderstood concepts under the aegis and auspices of the Grand Imam of Al-azhar, Prof. Ahmad Al tayyeb in the bosom of Azhar...

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)...