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Ismael El-Kholy

Ismael El-Kholy

Jun 5, 2015

Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Egyptian Imam of al-Azhar Mosque meets with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (not pictured), in Cairo May 4, 2015. Steinmeier will also meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during his two-day visit to Egypt. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RTX1BIPX — Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Egyptian imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, meets with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (not pictured), in Cairo, May 4, 2015. — REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

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A man reads the Koran minutes before sunset as he waits to break his fast and have his Iftar meal near Al-Azhar mosque, in the old Islamic area of Cairo, Egypt, July 9, 2015. Picture taken July 9, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RTX1JWC3

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An Al-Azhar Sheikh, explains some papers in the courtyard of Al-Azhar adminstrative building, in Cairo September 10, 2012. A proposal by ultraconservative Salafis to give Egypt's main Islamic institution the final say on whether the law of the land adheres to Islamic law threatens to bring the already painfully slow process of drafting the new constitution to a grinding halt. The proposal would give the revered Al-Azhar power similar to a supreme court by making it the arbiter of whether a law conforms with

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