Al-Azhar and Kazakhstan discuss expanded academic ties and interfaith-dialogue cooperation

Al-Azhar's Grand Sheikh met Kazakhstan's foreign minister in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss academic cooperation and interfaith dialogue.

• Al-Tayeb received Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi and his delegation at Al-Azhar on Wednesday to discuss cooperation.
• Al-Tayeb said Al-Azhar hosts 200 Kazakh students, including 50 on full scholarships, grants 25 scholarships annually, and sends 8 emissaries to Kazakhstan.
• Al-Tayeb said Al-Azhar is ready to train Kazakh imams and open an Arabic-language center in Kazakhstan.
• Tileuberdi invited Al-Tayeb to visit Kazakhstan and attend the opening of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.