Rafiq A. Tschannen is a Swiss national. He converted to Islam and joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the age of 16 after reading the German translation of the Holy Qur'an. He worked in 15 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, first as Finance Director in the private industry and later as Chief Executive Officer of NGOs and International Governmental Organizations. He is now devoting his time to The Muslim Times as Editor for Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Switzerland and as Associate Chief Editor.
Nov 04,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Majdi Khaldi RAMALLAH — Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel is ready to move ahead with “peace for peace” rather than “land for peace”, which was the original intent of the Middle East peace process. Even when US President Donald Trump’s […]
SAUDI ARABIA 3 days ago REPORT Hind Al Soulia – Riyadh – Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — The Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL) reiterated that “political Islam” is an extremist […]
A Palestinian immigrant was honoured for his role in saving a wounded police officer during a Daesh-linked terror attack in Vienna November 4, 2020 A 23-year-old Palestinian was recognised for […]
BY: DAVID W. TSCHANZ SOURCE: ARAMCO WORLD OCT 5, 2020 Depicting a scene in the hospital at Cordóba, then in Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain), this 1883 illustration shows the famed physician […]
BY GÖKHAN ERELI OP-ED NOV 04, 2020 Repeated statements, made through direct press releases and Twitter posts, can become official opinion at some point. Case in point, how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials argue that Turkey’s foreign policy toward the Middle East is destabilizing. The UAE Foreign Minister Anwar […]
Source: The Daily Sabah BY MUHITTIN ATAMAN Historically, Western governments prefer liberal values and principles in their foreign relations only when they enjoy a competitive advantage. When the governments experience […]
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL DIPLOMACY NOV 04, 2020 9:27 AM GMT+3 Elizabeth Spehar, U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNFICYP Mission poses with Cypriot President […]
1 / 4 Workers board up stores on Rodeo Drive in preparation for Election Day in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, US, November 2, 2020. (Reuters) 2 / 4 Workers […]
Nov 03,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the […]
Nov 03,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Osama Al Sharif Religious extremism is not exclusive to Muslims as demonstrated by Buddhist zealots in Myanmar, Jewish fundamentalists in Israel and white Christian […]
Is there reason to celebrate the United Nations marking 75 years? Can it survive another 75? Imogen Foulkes November 3, 2020. The past seven and a half decades have seen […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Qasim Rashid is a Pakistani-born American author, human rights activist, politician, and attorney. He previously […]
Published 3 hours ago Turkeyâs ambassador in Vienna Ozan Ceyhun (C) meets with Recep Tayyip Gultekin (R) and Mikail Ozen (L), two ethnic Turks in Vienna who risked their own […]
KIM HJELMGAARD | USA TODAY https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/11/03/USAT/71ba259c-ba6c-4e2b-ae03-9185d662b414-AP_Austria_Vienna_Atack.jpg?height=576 At least four people were killed and more than two dozen seriously injured in Austria’s capital, Vienna, late Monday in an assault that government officials said was connected to a radicalized person who “sympathized” with the Islamic State terror group. Police shot and killed […]
Raja Ather Qudoos, Missionary, Kano, Nigeria By the grace of Allah the Almighty, Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Kano was able to hold its maiden Peace Symposium on 10 October 2020. The theme of […]
Bilal Atkinson 2nd November 2020 Bilal Atkinson, originally from England, is an Ahmadi Muslim who converted from Christianity. In recent days, horrific attacks have taken place in France, in which […]
By Dr. James M. Dorsey, who is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and the […]
Source: Swiss Info Two teams of researchers in Switzerland say their data models based on search frequency and speech analysis forecast a win for Republican President Donald Trump in the […]
By Stephen Lendman International November 1, 2020 – Since Trump took office in January 2017, I’ve sharply criticized his domestic and geopolitical agenda — with ample supporting evidence to make […]
Author CHRIS DOYLE November 02, 2020 ARAB NEWS Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian boy during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Reuters/File) Short Url https://arab.news/g7kt6 Who thinks children […]
