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.
More than 75,000 well-wishers paid their respects to Emperor Akihito who turned 85 on Sunday, his last birthday celebration at Tokyo’s Imperial Palace before stepping down next year. The […]
JCORE executive director Edie Friedman asks, if a definition of antisemitism is needed, why not one for Islamophobia? more: https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/we-should-support-efforts-to-agree-a-definition-of-islamophobia-not-supporting-tommy-robinson-1.474072
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By AFP – Dec 24,2018 – JORDAN TIMES ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an ‘‘oppressor’’ after he accused Turkey […]
Published Dec 23, 2018, KUALA LUMPUR • Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia’s national school curriculum will be overhauled, as heavy emphasis is being given to Islamic subjects instead […]
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Dec 22, 2018 – 18:17 FILE PHOTO – U.S. envoy to the coalition against Islamic State Brett McGurk attends the Kuwait International Conference for Reconstruction of Iraq, in Bayan, Kuwait […]
Dec 18, 2018 – 20:48 United States President Donald Trump will attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2019 for the […]
Dec 20,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – KHALID DALAL Are many local and Arab media outlets about to drown in a tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI)? The short answer is: Yes, and […]
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Is it true that we have an evolutionary ‘god-shaped hole’? By Nick Perham, for the Independent Voices The quick and easy answer to why people are religious is that God […]
Dec 21, 2018 – SWISSINFO.CH Labourers work on an under-construction pontoon bridge spanning the river Ganga ahead of the “Kumbh Mela”, or the Pitcher Festival, in Allahabad, India, November 20, […]
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