His Eminence, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, received His Excellency Éric Chevallier, the French Ambassador to Egypt, to discuss ways of bolstering bilateral cooperation and strengthening cultural and...

    The 11th International Conference of the “Arab Impact Factor” announced the selection of His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, as Person of the Year 2026. This recognition comes as an...

     His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed al-Tayeb, received His Excellency Sergio Carranza, Spain’s ambassador to Cairo, on Monday at Al-Azhar headquarters to discuss ways of enhancing bilateral...

     Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemns, in the strongest terms, the attack on Khartoum Airport in the Sudanese capital, considering it a flagrant violation of the Sudan’s sovereignty and a threat to the safety of the innocent...

    Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, headed by His Eminence the Grand Imam, Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, strongly condemns the unjustified Iranian aggression against the United Arab Emirates. Al-Azhar stresses its categorical rejection of all forms of...

By: Asmaa Muhammad Yusuf

       Throughout many decades, media coverage has been portraying Islam as a violent and bloody religion whose main aim is to force all people either to adopt Islam or be killed. This is done by focusing on some extremist...

     Determining one’s identity usually involves “differentiating oneself from what one is not” (Benhabib, 1996, p. 3). Identity, as a matter of fact, involves similarity (sameness) and dissimilarity (uniqueness)...

By/ Asmaa Muhammad Yusuf

     Festivals and celebrations are considered one of the distinctive characteristics and key features of societies around the world as they constitute a major part of cultural fabric for people. This means that there is hardly any...