Tayyeb

U.S. and German diplomats met in secret with Taliban emissary Tayyeb Agha and others in recent months, discussing ways for the insurgents to begin substantive negotiations.

Taliban Pinpoint Limits of U.S. Peace Effort Yaroslav Trofimov 2012

The president of Cairo's Al-Azhar University, a renowned center of Islamic learning, described the proper method of wife-beating in a television interview: "It's not really beating," Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayyeb explained on Egyptian television.

Women under Islam... GayandRight 2007

The president of Cairo's Al-Azhar University, a renowned center of Islamic learning, described the proper method of wife-beating in a television interview: "It's not really beating," Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayyeb explained on Egyptian television.

Archive 2007-12-01 GayandRight 2007

The most likely interlocutor is Tayyeb Agha, the head of the Taliban political committee and one of a handful of people in the world said to have direct contact with Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban.

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Tayyeb Agha at a Taliban press conference in November 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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Benedict XVI kissing Ahmed el Tayyeb, an Egyptian imam and a prominent figure in Sunni Islam.

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Benetton's poster showed Pope Benedict XVI kissing on the lips Egypt's Ahmed el Tayyeb, imam of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo and a leading voice in Sunni Islam.

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Getty Tayyeb Agha at a Taliban press conference in November 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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The statement was interpreted by Tayyeb as interference and he did not send a delegation to an inter-religious meeting hosted by Benedict last month.

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Getty Tayyeb Agha at a Taliban press conference in November 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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