CAIRO – A security official says police have entered the campus of a Cairo university to quell a second day of protest by supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president. Students of Al-Azhar ...

CAIRO — Egyptian police fired tear gas Sunday in an attempt to disperse supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president protesting at the dormitories of an Islamic university in Cairo.

The head of Egypt's Al-Azhar university, the 1,000-year-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning, has been replaced after describing a leading Islamic researcher as an apostate, official media reports ...

Asmaa Serag – Director of Huawei Academies Egypt, Professor Dr. Mohamed Farag, University President's Consultant for Digital ...

Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam has issued a new fatwa reaffirming that women should inherit half the share of men, citing Islamic tradition, a move that critics say entrenches gender inequality in Egypt ...

The Al-Azhar mosque has stood tall in Cairo since the 10th century and is considered to be one of the oldest mosques in Egypt. It launched a university that initially taught Shia Islam until the ...

Egypt's Al-Azhar University explores Arabizing medical sciences amid controversy. Ahmed Mostafa, Thursday 23 Jan 2025. Egyptian social media has been abuzz with debate about Al-Azhar University's ...

Cairo Nearly 500 students from Cairo's Al-Azhar university have been admitted to hospital with food poisoning, a senior health official said on Tuesday. The official, Khaled el-Khateib, said that ...

CAIRO, Egypt — The head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar university, one of the world’s leading Islamic seats of learning, has been replaced after labeling a controversial Muslim reformer an apostate ...

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 ...

With all the protests and violent crackdowns reported around Egypt's Al Azhar University, we take a look at what's really going on among the walls of th ...

Al-Azhar University has denied reports about the detention of Uyghur students studying in Egypt. In a statement, the university said no single Uyghur student was detained on campus or in any Al ...