by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Mar 4, 2017 | Middle East
Cairo – Despite intensifying controversy within Egypt’s parliament, demands urged the amendment of Al-Azhar law on diversifying the highest committee members. The amendment orders that specialists not exclusive to religious subject material are incorporated...
by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Nov 19, 2016 | Middle East
Cairo- Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed el-Tayeb reaffirmed the institutionalized rebuttal of the concluding statement made at the Sunni Conference in Grozny, Chechnya in August 2016. The statement viewed controversial exclusion of Muslim sects and clerics. Dr....
by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Dec 30, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East
Scholars of jurisprudence, interpretation and Hadith at Al-Azhar University in Egypt provided an Islamic guide to face the terrorist organization, ISIS, intellectually. The scholars specified outlines for this guide including the direct intervention of Arab and...
by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Sep 29, 2015 | Middle East
Cairo, Brussels and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Muslim leaders around the world have strongly rejected what they called “politicization” of last week’s Hajj tragedy by Iran, which blamed Saudi Arabia—the organizer of the annual Muslim pilgrimage—for the incident that...
by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Oct 23, 2014 | Media
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Given its notoriety and the brutality of its tactics, the fact that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has developed an impressively slick and professional new media arm is sometimes overlooked. In response, the most prestigious...
