Date of source: Friday, February 12, 2016
Fūʾād Bilqāsimī, the national leader of the Islamist organization Sharia4Belgium and a Moroccan-Belgian, has chosen to take his case to the Belgian Supreme Court in protest of a ruling made by the Court of Appeal a few weeks prior, which sentenced Bilqāsimī to 12 years in prison and a fine of €30,...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2022
Belgian Ambassador, François Cornet, visited today the Virgin Mary Monastery in Jabal at- Ṭayr village, al-Minya, which the Vatican Pope included among the Path of the Holy Family.
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2021
Khālid al- Baqlī, Egypt’s ambassador to Belgium, received two Egyptian artifacts that were unlawfully taken out of Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, December 10, 2012
The authorities in Belgium raised security alert in the country, as well as in other European countries to take similar steps, as angry reactions are expected to follow the broadcast of the new movie offending Islam.
Date of source: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Since the report of Yūsuf R. Kāmil about the transfer of prisoner treaties in Arab-West Report Leslie’s mother, Brigitte Maras, has been contacting different authorities in Belgium. They confirm there is no prisoner exchange treaty between Belgium and Egypt and therefore they can do nothing to get...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Introduction by the translator
The following is a translation of an e-mail by Sieghield Lacoere, the official spokesperson of the Belgian Minister of Justice, to Jarit Taelman, a Belgian journalist working with De Gazet van Antwerpen, “Re: Leslie Maras,” February 12, 2019. The original e-mail was...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2019
Editor AWR: The Center for Arab-West Understanding has ‘adopted’ Belgian prisoner Leslie Maras who has been since 2006 in an Egyptian prison for an effort to take drugs into Egypt. Leslie was sentenced in 2007 to life in prison which in Egypt means 25 years. His parents have tried through court...
Date of source: Monday, May 12, 2014
EU Ministers of Interior requested internet service providers to ban internet sites that are used in recruiting European youth for Jihad in Syria.
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
Foreign Ministry: International intervention is delaying reconciliation and threatening to stop aid is ‘unacceptable’
The Foreign Ministry warned against trying to get international powers intervening in the Egyptian political crisis, saying that it would delay national reconciliation. This evening...
Date of source: Friday, June 6, 2014
Fuād Bin Khalīf, head of the Belgium Muslim Rights Council, stated that a veiled woman was stopped from entering a polling station last Sunday.