Date of source: Friday, February 2, 2024
Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, expressed his significant distress over the ongoing situation in the Gaza Strip amidst an “inhumane, unjustifiable and weak” global silence.
Date of source: Monday, February 19, 2024
During a meeting to discuss cooperation with the Brazilian ambassador, Paulino Franco de Carvalho Neto, the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, emphasized that al-Azhar’s mission is to promote peace globally, as he considered all al-Azhar students and graduates as “envoys of peace” in...
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2024
In this article, I will continue what I said at the conference held by the Freedoms Committee of the General Syndicate of the Egyptian Writers Union on February 3, 2023, entitled “Palestine: The Essence of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.”
Date of source: Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Last Saturday (February 3), the Freedom Committee of the General Syndicate of the Egyptian Writers Union held a conference under the title, ‘Palestine: The Essence of the Israeli-Arab Conflict,’ in the presence of gathering of politicians, Egyptian intellectuals, and Arabs. During this conference,...
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2024
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a visit to the mosque and mausoleum of Imām al-Shāfiʿī in Cairo on the sidelines of his visit to Egypt on February 14.
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2024
The ‘Dictionary of the Spirit: Ṣūfīsm as We Should Know it’, the latest book by author and researcher Dr. ʿAmmār ʿAlī Ḥasan, has been released by the Egyptian-Lebanese Publishing House in Cairo.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Media guru Ibrāhīm ʿĪsā said that political Islamist groups are troubled by Valentine’s Day and consider it ḥarām (religiously impermissible). He pointed out however that Valentine’s Day could be viewed as an important occasion in the tough reality Egyptians are going through amidst political and...
Date of source: Saturday, February 10, 2024
The Muslim Council of Elders is participating for the second time in a row with a special booth at the New Delhi Book Fair, one of the region’s largest events in terms of number of visitors, taking place from February 10 to 18.
Date of source: Sunday, February 11, 2024
The Muslim Council of Elders, led by Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, expressed “deep concerns” over the threats made by the Israeli occupation forces to launch a military operation in the city of Rafaḥ, which is located in the southern Gaza Strip and is currently densely populated with...
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2024
On Friday, February 16, the Coptic community in Egypt commemorated the 9th anniversary of the massacre of 21 Egyptian Christians in the Libyan city of Sirte by the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Dāʿish, in the Arabic acronym, on February 15, 2015.