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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/15/2025 12:04:00 PM
The Ministry of Endowments is reviving traditional elementary schools, or kuttabs, in locations across Egypt
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Egypt
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Society
12/30/2024 12:09:26 PM
The Alexandria and Beheira Governorates have announced that school classes will be suspended on Monday across all public and private schools and the Al-Azhar institutes due to the expected severe weather conditions.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/29/2024 11:27:00 AM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar condemned on Saturday the Israeli army's heinous act of setting fire to wards of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza and arresting patients and doctors.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/23/2024 6:29:01 PM
Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism hailed Saturday the International Criminal Court's (ICC) issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, describing it as a historic step.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/7/2024 12:58:24 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb said the tragedies in Gaza have surpassed all descriptions of crimes and massacres, with children, women, and the elderly losing their lives simply for choosing to remain in their homeland.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/29/2024 9:48:44 PM
Egypt's Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism has condemned Israel's deliberate disruptions to the operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/19/2024 12:03:31 PM
Al-Azhar, the highest institution of Sunni Islam, mourned the heroic “martyrs of the Palestinian resistance,” rejecting labels of terrorism imposed by "the criminal hand of Zionism," according to a statement issued on Friday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/17/2024 9:12:45 PM
Al-Azhar has condemned as a moral and political setback the recent extremist statements made by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, in which she voiced her country’s support for the Zionist entity’s bombing of civilians in Gaza.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/14/2024 4:04:21 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb criticized the Democratic and Republican parties in the US on Saturday for differing on nearly every issue except their unwavering support for Israel.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/1/2024 7:58:08 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb expressed Tuesday a strong condemnation of the international reactions to the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza and Lebanon, noting that it exposed a new phenomenon of "political schizophrenia" to the world.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/24/2024 7:16:21 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar stressed on Tuesday that the Israeli military aggression on Lebanon reflects the occupation’s criminal intent to turn the entire Middle East region into a battleground.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
9/17/2024 11:26:05 PM
Born on 19 October 1937, Tarek Ali Hassan wore many hats. A practising physician, as a professor of medicine at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, he reached the post Head of the Endocrinology Department. He skillfully juggled his medical responsibilities with his deep involvement in arts and music in particular, serving as one of the first few chairmen of the Cairo Opera House.
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Egypt
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Society
9/8/2024 6:58:17 PM
Al-Azhar has strongly warned against the rise of online groups and apps focused on betting on sports match results, describing it as “prohibited gambling.” The warning comes following a series of suicides, including that of a young man from Upper Egypt who took his life after accumulating debts due to betting.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/1/2024 12:05:26 PM
Al-Azhar Al-Sharif strongly condemned on Saturday the Israeli Zionist terrorist aggression on the West Bank cities, destruction of Infrastructure, and bloodshed of civilians, warning against Israeli plans to seize and Judaize the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/28/2024 4:01:05 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb has called on the Arab and Islamic nations to hold a global relief campaign to support the Sudanese people amid the current floods and ongoing conflicts.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/26/2024 5:43:48 PM
Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (aka Al-Azhar Observer) stated Monday that the Israeli occupation has systematically and deliberately targeted educational institutions in Gaza over recent months, resulting in the complete or partial destruction of all 19 universities in the besieged strip.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/25/2024 10:41:29 PM
Egypt's Al-Azhar, the world's largest Sunni Islamic institution, has strongly condemned the recent Israeli military attacks on Lebanon, warning of their impact on regional stability.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/10/2024 5:09:00 PM
Grand Mufti of Egypt Shawki Allam condemned on Saturday the massacre at Al-Tabi’een School in Gaza, stating that it is part of an ongoing “systematic genocidal war perpetrated by the Israeli entity in full view of the international community.”
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/8/2024 10:56:20 AM
Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the world’s most influential Sunni Islamic institution, condemned on Wednesday the far-right attacks on Muslims and mosques in the UK, praising the stance of the British government in confronting hostility against Muslims.
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Egypt
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Society
7/31/2024 8:44:40 PM
Al-Azhar, the world's leading Islamic Sunni institution, strongly condemned on Wednesday the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas' Political Bureau, in Tehran earlier Wednesday describing it as a “heinous crime committed by a treacherous occupying entity”
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