Egypt
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Society
4/28/2022 6:26:48 PM
The head of the Evangelical community in Egypt Andrea Zaki visited on Thursday with Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb to greet him on the occasion of Eid El-Fitr, which is set to start on Monday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/23/2022 2:33:56 PM
Al-Azhar condemned the heinous terrorist attack on a mosque in Mazar e Sharif in the Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, which left scores of people dead and injured.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
4/19/2022 9:41:48 PM
South and Southeast Asian students at Al-Azhar University in Cairo have been introducing a new taste to the city’s Ramadan Iftars, with Al-Azhar sending out delegations across the World to help other Muslim communities gain a flavour of the holy month, writes Dina Ezzat
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Egypt
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Society
4/18/2022 11:54:06 PM
Al-Azhar condemned extremist right-wing “terrorists” for burning the Holy Quran in Sweden, calling for the enactment of international legislation to prevent the desecration of religious sanctities.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/18/2022 6:07:59 PM
Egypt condemned the desecration of the Quran by a group of right-wing extremists in Sweden, saying the act has “inflamed the feelings of Muslims around the world during the holy month of Ramadan.”
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Egypt
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Society
4/16/2022 10:48:59 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb congratulated Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II and the Christian people in Egypt on Easter Sunday, which Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate this year on 24 April.
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Egypt
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Society
4/8/2022 1:11:22 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb offered his condolences on Thursday to Head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros and Christians over the murder of Arsanios Wadid, the Priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary and Mar Boulos in Alexandria.
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Egypt
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Society
3/13/2022 4:26:26 PM
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb called on world leaders on Sunday to do everything in their power to “extinguish the fires of war,” urging them to unite their efforts to save the vulnerable and displaced.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/6/2022 11:26:32 AM
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb called in a tweet in Ukrainian on the international community to increase humanitarian aid to the war-torn country and exert further efforts to end the conflict.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/26/2022 10:57:18 PM
Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s top religious authority Al-Azhar, has called for world leaders and international institutions to support peaceful solutions to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/9/2022 1:14:42 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has succeeded in securing Amany Abdullah El-Sharif — the dean of the girl’s Faculty of Pharmacy at Al-Azhar University — the position of vice president of the Pan African University (PAU), a statement by the ministry said on Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/18/2022 1:21:35 PM
Egypt's Al-Azhar, the world’s highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning, has condemned a terrorist attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi on Monday that killed three people.
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Egypt
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Society
1/4/2022 7:32:55 PM
Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb and Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa on Tuesday paid a visit to the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo to offer greetings to Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church on the occasion of Christmas.
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World
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Region
1/2/2022 4:26:37 PM
After a day's work in an Iraq public sector job, Azhar offers legal support to women who are victims of domestic abuse, something she knows well given her experience with a brutal husband.
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Egypt
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Society
12/30/2021 4:45:53 PM
Egypt's Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb greeted Thursday Pope Francis of the Vatican, head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, and Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I as well as all Christians around the world on the occasion of Christmas.
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Egypt
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Society
12/15/2021 10:56:47 PM
Classes at public and private schools as well as Al-Azhar institutes across Alexandria will be cancelled on Thursday due to an expected spell of unstable weather, a statement by the governorate said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/8/2021 7:45:40 PM
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry called on Wednesday for continuing coordination between the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Egypt's Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s top religious institution, to help Muslim countries confront regional challenges as well as reinforce security and stability in the Islamic world.
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Egypt
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Society
12/4/2021 10:44:02 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar will build on earlier efforts with the Vatican and intensify measures to implement the provisions of the Document on Human Fraternity, Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/1/2021 2:59:36 PM
Al-Azhar, the world's leading Sunni Muslim religious institution, condemned the Sunday storming of the sacred Ibrahimi Mosque in the Palestinian city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) by the Israeli president and Jewish settlers, describing it as “a blatant aggressive act” and “an assault on Islamic sanctities.”
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Heritage
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Heritage special
11/26/2021 4:28:45 PM
The “Live Heritage, Live Communities” workshop, a project that engages the local communities of Historic Cairo and Luxor in crafting a program for cultural heritage and sustainable tourism, was launched earlier in the week.
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