Tunisian gender reforms countered in Egypt by female Coptic MP
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Under the Al-Sisi government, Copts expect the religious scholars of Al-Ahzar Institute to reform Islam. A good beginning would look like this: removal of [...]
Is Al-Azhar University a Global Security Threat?
By Cynthia Farahat – Middle East Forum – Al-Azhar University, the world’s largest Sunni Islamic educational institution, is where many of the world’s most brutal [...]
Rift widens between Egyptian president, Al-Azhar
By Shahira Amin – Al Monitor – When Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then defense minister, gave a televised speech on July 3, 2013, announcing that President Mohammed Morsi had [...]
All Art Is “Immoral,” Says “Moderate” Sheikh Al Azhar
By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive to Coptic Solidarity – Art has a largely negative impact on human morality. So says Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s Al Azhar madrassa [...]
Christian Worship Is “Worse than Murder and Bloodshed” Says Egyptian Cleric
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special to Coptic Solidarity – For an idea of why Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their churches are constantly under attack—most recently last Sunday, when a [...]
Al Azhar: No to Reforming “Religious Discourse”
By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – Much of Al Azhar University’s curriculum is based on Islam’s ancillary books, written in the medieval era or earlier. These books are [...]
Speak Freedom Dallas Event
By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity president, Dr. George Gurguis, will be speaking at a public rally in Dallas, TX on Saturday, November 5th. The public and media are welcome to [...]
Al Azhar: Muslims May Befriend Christians Only When Good for Muslims
By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – An Arabic language video of an Al Azhar professor, Dr. Salim Abdul Galil, is instructive of how that Egyptian institution sees [...]
Do Christians in Egypt Need a Law to Build Churches?
By Samia Sidhom – Watani – Given the discrimination, oppression and severe humiliation Christians in Egypt have to sustain if they so much as think of building or renovating a church, it is [...]
‘Al -Ahram Columnist: “Despite Al-Sisi’s Call for Revolution in Religious Discourse, Al-Azhar Scholars Continue on their Extremist Path”
By MEMRI – Al-Azhar’s Poisonous Curricula Are Responsible For Attacks On Copts; Al-Azhar Accuses Anyone Who Disagrees With It Of Heresy. In his first article, ‘Abd Al-Tawab [...]
