Abanoub Guirguis Naeem, a Christian dental student was recently granted admission to complete his final year of experiential training at Al-Azhar’s Faculty of Dentistry in Assiut, an unprecedented rarity in the prestigious Islamic University. Naeem is the first recognized case of a Christian student enrolling at Al-Azhar University, which is considered a beacon of centrist, moderate Islam in Egypt. However, as numerous private universities do not provide their students seats for the residencies needed to complete their medical bachelor, students instead opt to seek residencies in government-run hospitals, like in Cairo University, Ain Shams University and Al-Azhar University — as in Naeem’s case. According to Khalid Seddiq, the dean of the faculty of dentistry at Al-Azhar University in Assiut, Naeem along with four of his Muslim colleagues sent their applications for a one-year residency to the faculty earlier in May. What is really important to me is to know if he is an Egyptian student of good academic standing or not.

Source: Egypt Independent June 04, 2017 13:18 UTC