15 Mohammed Abdou, El-Darb El-Ahmar, Cairo.
Al-Azhar University is one of the most important knowledge fortresses in Egypt and the world. It bears the responsibility of protecting the Islamic and Arabic identity, spreading Islamic enlightenment, editing heritage, and publishing outstanding works on sciences and arts. It promotes the values of citizenship, love, peace, pluralism, and accepting the other. Al-Azhar colleges exist in most of Egyptian governorates and teach Islamic, theoretical, and practical sciences as well as unique academic areas of specializations. It is pleasure to Al Azhar University to welcome students, learners, researchers, and professors from all continents with solemn promises to provide the best education service and care to students and researchers. Al-Azhar University welcomes any contribution or suggestion for better educational system. It calls social and academic actors, inside and outside the country, to participate in this great foundation and exchange ideas, opinions, and theses. Keeping the image of these historic glories in mind, the university is resolved to envisage the far future's challenges to face them and get ready for any additional responsibilities, be they local or international in determination to combat the dubious thoughts. The University aims to develop its learning system and quality to the excellent level through creative solutions based on education as the base for the safe future. Such creative solutions shall rest on modern education, deep understanding, analyzes, prospecting, creativity, solving problems, and critic thinking. As such, they can conduce to a qualitative shift in the University's outputs, which will provide students with ability to renew and create ideas, refute baseless arguments, correct false ideas and conceptions, and promote tolerance and peace around the world.
School Director: Professor Muhammad Hussein Mahrasawi
Population: 45000
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