Al-Azhar

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Ahmed al-Tayyeb • 25 min read

How Al-Azhar’s grand imam survived the constitutional amendments

Asmahan Soliman | A proposed constitutional article would have featured a less independent Al-Azhar

11 April 2019

Al-Azhar • 9 min read

‘Egypt is not Tunisia’ when it comes to women’s rights

Mai Shams El-Din | Amid celebration in Tunisia over securing women’s rights, Al-Azhar strikes a different chord

22 August 2017

Religious institutions • 10 min read

Fatwa on the go

Karoline Kamel | A Mada Masr journalist experiments with seeking a fatwa from newly-set kiosk in a metro station

17 August 2017

Egypt-China relations • 1 min read

Video | On the arrest campaign targeting members of Egypt’s Uyghur community

Mostafa Darwish | Dozens of members of Egypt's Uyghur community arrested as part of a plan to deport them to China

30 July 2017

student detentions • 9 min read

Uyghur students arrested in Egypt to be deported after request by China, say colleagues

Osman El Sharnoubi | At least 100 Uyghur students have been arrested and are expected to be deported

7 July 2017

Ahmed al-Tayyeb • 11 min read

Al-Azhar post-June 30: An ongoing dispute interrupted by a brief alliance

Mai Shams El-Din | Four years after June 30, 2013 tensions between Al-Azhar and the executive authority rise to the surface

30 June 2017

population growth • 15 min read

Overpopulation, religion and fatwas on demand in Egypt

Karoline Kamel | Blaming overpopulation for the economic crisis, the state awkwardly courts the support of religious institutions

7 May 2017

Al-Azhar • 11 min read

Government continues attempts to extend control over mosques

Osman El Sharnoubi | The ministry claims a new decree will protect mosques from 'infiltration'

12 April 2017

women's rights • 15 min read

Proving paternity: A prolonged struggle for thousands of Egyptian mothers

Mai Shams El-Din | For mothers who choose to file paternity lawsuits, proceedings can take years

15 March 2017

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Opinion

Sahar Mandour

Verbal divorce: A man-to-man fight in the ‘year of women’

At the center of the 'year of women' is the relationship between men

14 March 2017

Tarek Ghanem

Al-Azhar and the dinosaurs

“Sheikhs issue religious edicts for the price of two chickens. They are no more than stooges of backwardness,

3 May 2016

News

Al-Azhar • 4 min read

Cleric suspended for making inflammatory remarks about Christians on air

11 May 2017

Al-Azhar • 2 min read

Preacher Islam Beheiry’s 1-year sentence upheld for insulting Islam

2 February 2016

Al-Azhar • 5 min read

Preacher Islam al-Beheiry’s prison sentence widely condemned

30 December 2015

Al-Azhar • 5 min read

Preacher Islam al-Beheiry sentenced to one year for insulting Islam

29 December 2015

Al-Azhar • 3 min read

Al-Azhar, NCW and Arab Lawyers condemn Amnesty call to decriminalize sex work

13 August 2015

Al-Azhar • 6 min read

New secular party to ‘challenge religious dominance’

30 April 2015

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