Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb is holding a press conference on Tuesday morning to offer the outcome of meetings of senior intellectuals and Azhar scholars throughout three sessions to adopt the Four Public Freedoms document.

An Azhar source told al-Dustūr newspaper that the paper approves the freedom of belief, the freedom of scientific research, the freedom of opinion and expression and the freedom of literature and art.

“The document is meant to throw a spanner in the schemes of some hard-line groups that criticize or threaten to obliterate,” explained the source. [Wā’il Fāyīz, al-Dustūr, Jan. 10, p. 1]