Al-Azhar University was founded in Cairo, Egypt in 970 AD and despite not gaining university status until 1961, it is still technically among the world’s oldest universities. For over a millennium, it ...

But today, dressed in a navy blue blazer, brown pants and a navy sweater, the pharmacy professor is making his way back to the university where he taught before the war: Al-Azhar University.

In the face of two interconnected crises in Gaza—the deliberate destruction of educational infrastructure and a weaponized ...

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The holy Muslim fasting month has always been an opportunity to share the Iftar meal, with this taking on magnificent ...

Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning, condemned renewed Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday as “black terrorism”, criticizing world powers for greenlighting Tel Aviv to kill ...

Al-Azhar, Egypt’s prestigious Islamic institution, denounced Israel on Monday for barring humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, labeling the move a “crime of starving innocent children, women and men” ...