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.
Despite the west’s experience of managing the process of urbanisation, it doesn’t have all the answers Hamish McRae @TheIndyBusiness The Independent Voices New York will continue to be the world’s largest urban economy in 2035, but Jakarta will have passed Tokyo to become the most populous city. However, […]
Mehdi Hasan December 1 2018, The tributes to former President George H.W. Bush, who died on Friday aged 94, have been pouring in from all sides of the political […]
Panca Nugraha The Jakarta Post Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara | Wed, December 5, 2018 Editor’s Note: Oho! It seems that this music festival is a bit […]
By Julia Crawford This content was published on November 30, 2018 How do you help a country from which nearly a million people have fled, where the government is […]
Stefanie Jason Dec. 04, 2018 Photo: Stefanie Jason There’s a new movement of Black Muslims in South Africa asserting their Africanness within the context of their religion. “I have […]
The Kasanje Kingdom, also known as the Jaga Kingdom, was one of the biggest and most powerful kingdoms in Central Africa in the 17th to early 19th century. Established […]
As Ahmadi Muslims, it is our foremost duty to understand what we believe in. We must accept that we were born in a time like no other. Having accepted this, we must then look to the world and see what it is desperately in need of. Though the world […]
Wed December 5, 2018 “We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.” – Thomas Sankara […]
Our chief political commentator explains the significance of tonight’s votes in the House of Commons John Rentoul @JohnRentoul The Independent Voices Theresa May lost three votes tonight, which are […]
Jews from Islamic countries are migrants of the clash of civilizations Jewish migrants from Islamic lands are ignored by the Western conscience, the UN, the EU – no […]
December 2, 2018 Turkey and Iran need to work together to find solutions to the problems of the Islamic world and for the unity of the Muslim […]
Islamic banks are looking to attract green and ethical customers Credit: Per Magnus Persson/Getty Images Adam Williams 5 December 2018 Specialist banks are aiming to broaden their appeal by offering […]
In its editorial, the paper shares its concern over election campaigns building up along sectarian lines, instead of candidate track records. JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – […]
By Rick Noack December 4, 2018 When President Trump pulled out of discussions of a U.N. migration pact almost exactly one year ago, there was an immediate international […]
By Luigi Jorio This content was published on December 4, 2018 Over 40°C in the cities, long periods of drought and little snow in winter: in forty years’ […]
In February 2017, mourners gather at an arena in Montreal for the funeral of three of the six victims of the massacre at the Grand Mosque of Quebec. (Catherine […]
Alex Lockie China’s state-run newspaper The Global Times tried to defend the country’s practice of mass detentions of its majority Muslim ethnic minority, the Uighurs. But it committed a […]
PUBLISHED: 04 December 2018 Liam Coleman Samina Siddiqi and Amatul Hayat with the collection organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Womens Association. Over the past month, Samina Siddiqi from Ilford, as […]
PUBLISHED: 15:00 04 December 2018 Aaron Walawalkar More than 100 Ahmadiyya Muslim worshippers joined a team of more than 500 volunteers – including the Mayor of London – to plant 15,000 trees in Hainault. Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) joined Sadiq Khan and Councillor Jas Athwal, in […]
Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times By James Barron Dec. 2, 2018 Think of it: One of the most famous people in the world is panning religion. “The word God is […]