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.
In its absence, the speculation will pile up, and the Saudis will be doomed to issue ever more vehement denials. They may have thought they had a problem with Mr Khashoggi; […]
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(CNN)Saudi Arabia has given Turkey permission to search its Istanbul consulate Monday afternoon, nearly two weeks after journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing there, a Turkish diplomatic source told CNN. The […]
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THE BOOK Money Logging investigates what former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called ‘probably the biggest environmental crime of our times’—the massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian […]
Oct. 15, 2018, By VICTOR AMADALA @itsamadala “Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) estimates corruption takes away at least Sh600 billion of the country’s budget every year.” /FILE Corruption is the […]
ENVIRONMENT The EU’s biofuel policy was meant to help the climate. Instead it’s been linked to loss of rainforest because of its reliance on palm oil. New rules aim to […]
The looming military offensive on the Idlib province in Syria has been called off for now. People there are yearning to return to normal life and rapidly planning for the […]
In the wake of far-right unrest in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, investigators have uncovered a suspected neo-Nazi terror cell thought to have been planning a major attack. The arrests […]
Wittlich. Last Sunday, the 2nd Ahmadiyya Charity Walk took place in Wittlich despite the bad weather. Mayor Joachim Rodenkirch gave the starting signal for the runners and walkers at the […]
October 14, 2018 Madeeha Anwar FILE – Supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) Islamist political party raise their hands as they listen to the speech of their leader during […]
By AFP – Sep 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — The United States threatened Monday to arrest and sanction judges and other officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) if […]