Egypt
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Society
9/30/2023 7:12:23 PM
Egypt-Japan University of Science & Technology and Al-Azhar University have secured a presence in The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024, ranking at 601-800 and 801-1000, respectively.
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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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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/25/2023 11:13:14 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar strongly condemned the recent incident of tearing copies of the Quran in the Netherlands in front of several embassies in The Hague.
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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
8/29/2023 7:58:43 PM
Monday 28 August witnessed the closing ceremony of a three-year-long UNESCO project to preserve the culture of craftsmanship in Cairo's Khan El-Khalili and El-Darb El-Ahmar historic areas, held at Al-Azhar Park.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/17/2023 10:22:28 PM
Egypt's Al-Azhar strongly condemned on Thursday the assaults carried out on several churches in eastern Pakistan, unequivocally rejecting such reprehensible crimes.
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Egypt
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Society
8/8/2023 4:41:31 PM
34 terrorist attacks including bombings and assassinations took place in Africa in July, down by 5.5 percent from June, said Egypt’s Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism in a Tuesday report, adding that East Africa and the Horn of Africa accounted for 47.1 percent of the tally.
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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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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/21/2023 5:54:09 PM
Al-Azhar has condemned the repeated burnings of the Quran in Sweden under the guise of freedom of expression and called for “unified and serious stances” towards Sweden's “anti-Islam and anti-Muslim policies."
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
6/28/2023 12:31:38 PM
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Egypt
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Society
6/26/2023 11:41:59 AM
The Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II on Sunday sent a cable to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, then called Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb, congratulating them ahead of Eid Al-Adha.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/24/2023 5:07:01 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar strongly condemned on Saturday the recent acts of violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, expressing its unequivocal rejection of the desecration of a Quran in southern Nablus.
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Egypt
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Society
6/14/2023 8:59:57 PM
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, stated that the policies of global domination, materialist philosophies, and unethical economic doctrines were primarily responsible for the phenomenon of terrorism -- which Islam disavows.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/3/2023 2:12:32 PM
US First Lady Jill Biden embarked on a captivating tour of Egypt's rich cultural heritage, exploring Cairo's thousand year old Al-Azhar Mosque and the Great Pyramids of Giza, during her ongoing two-day visit to the country.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/30/2023 6:42:14 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar rejects the Zionist ambition to change the temporal, spatial, and historical status quo of Al-Aqsa Mosque and its compound, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb said on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/24/2023 10:38:39 PM
Al-Azhar condemned recent statements by a French official who linked Sunni Islam to terrorism and claimed it posed the greatest risk to France and Europe, describing them as “irresponsible and ignorant.”
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Sports
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Talents Abroad
5/23/2023 7:00:35 PM
The world’s leading Sunni Islamic institution, located in Egypt, Al-Azhar, showed support for Egyptian striker Mostafa Mohamed after being fined by his French club Nantes for refusing to participate in the league's recent anti-homophobia campaign.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
4/8/2023 3:48:47 PM
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/6/2023 11:41:26 AM
Egypt's parliament, the Arab Parliamentary Union (APU), and Al-Azhar religious institution condemned on Wednesday Israeli police's storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque and their attacks on Palestinian and Arab worshippers in violation of international law.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/5/2023 11:41:02 PM
Egypt's Al-Azhar condemned the Wednesday raid of Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Israeli police and the attack on Palestinian worshippers as "a repeat terrorist act," decrying the silence of the world community which "likes to boast about international conventions that protect places of worship."
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