Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) received a delegation from Al-Azhar International Academy for Training Imams (AIATIP), comprising participants from six countries: Algeria, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, India,...

     Under the “Listen & Talk” Initiative, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) organized a symposium at Al-Ahram Canadian University (ACU) entitled, “Freedom between Discipline and Unrestrained...

    Under the auspices of the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, Bait al-Zakat “The Egyptian Zakat and Charity House”, announced the delivery of the first batch of humanitarian aid of the 12th aid convoy, as it successfully...

     His Eminence, The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb received Prof. Volker Kauder, Honorary Professor of Political Ethics and Religious Freedom at the Free Theological University, Giessen, Germany.  Grand Imam...

 Violence against women and girls represents the most prevalent human rights violation globally. Worldwide assessments indicate that this rapidly-deteriorating epidemic threatens societies in various contexts, particularly through online...

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...