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The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, the oldest university in the world, has warned against the "state of hatred and hopelessness created by American bias towards Israel. Speaking to the...
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The head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars has praised the statements of the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University in support of the struggles for freedom and social...
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The Mufti of Egypt has condemned the "regular and continuous abusive practices" of the Israeli occupation authorities "which violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque" in occupied Jerusalem. The mosque...
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The World Association of Muslim Scholars has announced that it is sending a high-level delegation to the Gaza Strip. The group will be led by the association's Secretary-General Sheikh...
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The Islamic Development Bank has signed agreements to finance a number of projects in Egypt valued at $388 million. The bank's President, Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali, arrived in Cairo...
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More than 30 revolutionary, youth, political and Islamist parties are holding a mass rally today, Friday, under the banner of "No to violence". The event is being held at...
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Al-Azhar Scholars' Front has said that the legal president of Egypt is the freely-elected Mohamed Morsi. It called for Al-Azhar University and Mosque's Grand Shaikh Ahmed al-Tayyip, who offered...
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Muslim Brotherhood official Mohamed Bishr has denied that the movement has had any formal contacts with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in order to start a...
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The Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday that it refuses to attend reconciliation meetings called for by the interim president, Adly Mansour. The Islamic movement has based its decision on...
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Egypt's Al-Azhar University announced on Wednesday that it is postponing the start of the new academic year until after the Eid Holiday in two weeks' time. This is the...
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Around 320 students are reported to have been wounded by the Egyptian police and army when they broke into the halls of residence at Cairo's famed Al-Azhar University and...
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Egypt has announced the death of two pillars of the military coup, Major General Rida Hafiz and Mohamed Hamid. Media reports also claim that Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi has...
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About 1,600 Egyptian professors at Al-Azhar University are planning to resign in protest of the recent raids on university campuses that resulted in Egyptian security forces entering classrooms and...
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Egypt's security forces have released Jihad Al-Khayat, a first year student in the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Jihad arrived at her home in a...
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Egypt in these days of the coup is a state of unprecedented absurdity of a kind not even experienced during the worst tyranny and injustice that began with the...
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The coup authorities are moving quickly to ensure the constitution is approved no matter what. If necessary, they will mobilise officers and soldiers in the military and the police...
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When the head of military justice tried to defend the article in the new Egyptian constitution that allows civilians to be tried before military courts, he included any person...
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Everyone is waiting anxiously for the outcome of the first round of the Egyptian presidential election. It might be a decisive vote in terms of such elections in Egypt;...
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Sex selection is a dirty phrase in Western countries, but Middle Eastern couples are jumping on fertility technology as changing attitudes make it easier and more acceptable to 'make...