The need to reform Al Azhar’s religious education

The need to reform Al Azhar’s religious education is becoming more pressing than ever, Seliman Gouda writes in a column penned for AMAY. He argues that attempts to reform religious education — and by virtue of that religious discourse — in Egypt have always been met with resistance and were never persistent enough to show any real change. Gouda places part of the blame for yesterday’s terror attacks on cathedrals in Tanta and Alexandria on the failure to address and reshape the religious education by Al Azhar that is characteristic of Tanta and other cities in Egypt.