As part of AOCE’s ongoing efforts to strengthen young people’s intellectual resilience and foster awareness, the Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) continues its two-day “Pillars of...

     Al-Azhar Al-Sharif strongly condemns the attack on a power distribution station in Madinah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and firmly rejects this act of aggression, which threatens the security of the City of the Messenger of...

     Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, received H.E. Yevgeny Sobolevsky, the Ambassador of Belarus to Cairo, to discuss ways to enhance joint collaboration between Al-Azhar and religious and academic institutions in...

     In an unprecedented move since the city’s occupation in 1967, all newly opened grades in East Jerusalem's public schools are set—starting from the 2026/2027 academic year—to fully adopt the Zionist...

     Al-Azhar strongly denounces the act of a far-right extremist who tore a copy of the Qur’an inside a church in New York, Unites States Al-Azhar asserts that such a crime is a blatant example of deliberate, extremist...

By: Ahmed Al-Gaisi

Marriage of Underage Girls: An investigation of the reasons, effects and the Islamic Perspective Islam is very keen to regulate all human beings’ relationships, either their relationships to Allah, or among themselves. As marriage...

By: Mohamed Ali

By: Abdullah Abdeen (Researcher at AOCE, English Unit)

     The article entitled Double Standards and Distortion: How the NYT Misreports Sexual Violence in Israel/Palestine appears on FAIR website. It provides a critical reviews to media bias. The writer, Owen Schacht, is pursuing a...