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The need to reform Al Azhar\u2019s religious education is becoming more pressing than ever,<\/strong> Seliman Gouda writes in a column penned for AMAY<\/a>. He argues that attempts to reform religious education \u2014 and by virtue of that religious discourse \u2014 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The need to reform Al Azhar\u2019s 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 \u2014 and by virtue of that religious discourse \u2014 in Egypt have always been met with resistance and were never persistent enough to show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9411],"tags":[72,9410],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-648717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-deadline","tag-enterpriseam","tag-on-deadline","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"225a6beb-5700-4d25-b2cb-cc7834e5fb26","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[648703],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nThe need to reform Al Azhar\u2019s religious education - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/04\/10\/the-need-to-reform-al-azhars-religious-education\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The need to reform Al Azhar\u2019s religious education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The need to reform Al Azhar\u2019s religious education is becoming more pressing than ever, Seliman Gouda writes in a column penned for AMAY. 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