by HIBA SALEH
When 70 graduating students at Al-Azhar university in Cairo, dressed in the traditional robes of Muslim religious scholars, mounted a stage to receive their English-language certificates, they were marking a first.
Al-Azhar is the oldest and most prestigious institution of Islamic learning in the Sunni Muslim world, but these students were the first to be proficient in English.
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