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World
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Region
6/24/2025 8:04:41 PM
A little-known Sunni Muslim extremist group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a weekend suicide attack on a Damascus church, as the city mourned those killed.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/23/2025 11:03:52 AM
Egypt's Al-Azhar, the world's largest Muslim Sunni institution, and the Coptic Orthodox Church strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a Greek Orthodox church in the Syrian capital that killed at least 22 people and left 63 others wounded on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/20/2025 8:41:44 PM
Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the world’s largest Sunni Islamic institution, has issued a forceful condemnation of Israel's ongoing actions against Iran, delivering his message not only in Arabic and English but, for the first time, in Persian on social media.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/28/2025 11:41:41 AM
Al-Azhar, the world's largest Muslim Sunni institution, strongly condemned on Sunday the terrorist attack that killed a Muslim worshipper inside a mosque in the town of La Grand-Combe in southeastern France's Gard region.
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Egypt
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Society
4/22/2025 3:24:46 PM
A high-level official delegation from Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the world's leading and most esteemed Sunni Islamic institution, is set to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, who passed away on Monday at the age of 88.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/21/2025 1:29:23 PM
As this series of articles has aimed to show, the past 15 years brought some achievements and many failures. But transitions are, by definition, transient.
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Egypt
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Society
3/16/2025 2:36:51 PM
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the world's leading Sunni Islamic institution, stressed Saturday that Islamophobia has become a real threat to global peace.
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World
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Region
3/1/2025 1:14:12 PM
For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni-ruled Middle Eastern states Ramadan will begin on Saturday, but in Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq it will start the following day, authorities announced.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/23/2025 5:55:20 PM
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar, the world's leading Sunni Islamic institution, expressed Sunday his heartfelt wishes for Pope Francis of a swift recovery, as the pope is still in critical condition following a severe asthma attack.
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World
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Region
11/10/2024 9:37:44 PM
At least five members of Iran's security forces were killed Sunday in a "terror attack" in the restive southeast, where authorities have been conducting operations against rebels, local media reported.
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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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World
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Region
9/25/2024 5:45:24 PM
The Iranian parliament on Wednesday blocked the appointment of a politician from the Sunni minority as vice president, state media reported.
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World
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Region
9/18/2024 2:52:25 PM
Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, on Wednesday nominated a member of the Sunni Muslim minority to be governor of Kurdistan province, official media reported.
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World
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Region
8/26/2024 10:14:52 PM
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday named a politician from the Sunni minority as his vice president for rural development, official media reported.
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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
8/8/2024 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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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/28/2024 9:36:22 PM
Al-Azhar, the world’s leading Sunni Islamic institution, strongly condemned on Sunday the scenes portraying the prophet 'Isa' (Jesus Christ) in a manner deemed disrespectful and offensive during the opening ceremony of the "Paris 2024" Olympic Games.
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Opinion
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6/30/2024 12:22:00 PM
What would Egypt have been like today in the absence of the 30 June 2013 Revolution
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/24/2024 12:59:59 PM
Al-Azhar, the world's leading Sunni Islamic institution, welcomed on Thursday the announcement of Norway, Ireland, and Spain to officially recognize the State of Palestine, effective 28 May.
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