Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
3/26/2024 8:36:44 PM
Cairo’s Historic City of the Dead is to be developed into an open-air museum of Islamic art, reports Nevine El-Aref
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/24/2024 9:51:27 PM
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb said the international community's response to the aggression on Gaza has been disappointing and frustrating, unlike that of the people in Western societies in Europe and the US.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
3/21/2024 8:10:32 PM
Cairo Steps revive old Islamic poetry in their single The Imam featuring artist Hany Adel.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/6/2024 10:32:09 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb affirmed to Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan the depth of the relations between Al-Azhar and Armenia, highlighting the leading Sunni Islamic institution's longstanding support to the Armenian cause.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/15/2024 11:16:00 AM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited on Wednesday evening the Gaza-born Imam Al-Shafei Mosque and Shrine in Old Cairo accompanied by Egypt President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and their spouses.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
1/21/2024 8:10:33 PM
Ramy Imam, director and son of renowned Egyptian star Adel Imam, received the Arab Art Leader Award at Joy Awards 2024 on behalf of his father.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/20/2024 8:35:58 PM
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, announced on Saturday the Sunni Islamic institution’s complete solidarity with Somalia in preserving its territorial unity, condemning external attempts to destabilize it, in his meeting with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud in Cairo.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/6/2024 10:56:04 PM
The Muslim Council of Elders, led by Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, expressed in a statement on Saturday its deep concern over the killing of Imam Hussein Sharif, the imam of a mosque in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/4/2024 10:51:12 AM
A New Jersey imam was gunned down outside his mosque before dawn Wednesday, leaving authorities hunting for a shooter amid rising anti-Muslim attacks in the US following the Israeli war on Gaza.
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Egypt
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Society
1/3/2024 2:00:08 PM
Egypt’s head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb have agreed to form a committee comprising Al-Azhar and Egyptian churches to address the aggression against Gaza.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
12/10/2023 11:05:58 AM
An exhibition by pioneer architecture and tutor Essam Safi El-Din traces Egypt's folk architecture.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/3/2023 10:47:51 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb discussed cultural and educational collaboration between Korea and Egypt and the latest developments in Gaza with Korean Ambassador Kim Yonghyon on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Society
11/12/2023 8:57:50 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayeb congratulated renowned cardiologist Dr Hany Eteiba on his election as the President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow as the first Egyptian Al-Azhar University alumnus to hold such a position.
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Egypt
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Society
11/11/2023 11:40:08 AM
In a heartfelt address ahead of the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit on the Gaza war, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb affirmed that ending Israeli aggression is a “religious legal duty” for Arab leaders and people alike.
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Egypt
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Society
10/28/2023 10:33:09 AM
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, condemned on Friday the Israeli occupation’s intensified attacks in Gaza, denouncing the bombardment, killing, and cutting of electricity and internet connections as blind terrorism and a clear violation of legal and humanitarian principles.
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Egypt
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Society
9/27/2023 1:58:21 PM
Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb promoted during the Moulid El-Nabi celebration the adoption of the “supreme law that declares equality and fraternity among people, rules between them with justice, and encourages compassion and mercy."
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Heritage
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Heritage special
9/17/2023 3:31:23 PM
Every year during the first week of January, Egypt observes the moulid, a Sufi celebration commemorating the death anniversary of Imam Al-Rifaai, at the mosque that bears his name, located in the Al-Khalifa district in the heart of Historic Cairo.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/11/2023 11:01:41 AM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb and President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed in Berlin ways to combat the rising wave of Islamophobia in Europe and ways to promote interfaith dialogue in societies, Al-Azhar announced.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
8/21/2023 5:14:25 PM
Egypt inaugurated the House of Heritage at the Foustat Traditional Crafts Centre in Old Cairo on 20 August.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/1/2023 8:57:50 PM
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb has called for “Islamic-Islamic” dialogue between Islamic scholars around the world, of all sects and schools, to establish unity following the frequent Quran-burning incidents in the past two months in Europe.
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