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.
Last Saturday saw devastating air strikes on a funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, which killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 more. Johnson’s first public response was to issue a tweet ANDREW SMITH Medics and rescue workers carry a body on a stretcher at the site of reported airstrikes by […]
HANI HAZAIMEH | ARAB NEWS STAFF | Published — Thursday 13 October 2016 A file image released by the US Navy shows a guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) conducting formation exercises with the Cyclone-class patrol crafts USS Tempest (PC 2) and USS Squall (PC 7) on September 10, 2016. […]
KLAUS SCHWAB | Published — Thursday 13 October 2016 Klaus Schwab New technologies are emerging so rapidly that societies in the Middle East are now having trouble coping with their impact. Around the globe, entire industries are being redefined and created from scratch, owing to ground-breaking developments in artificial intelligence, […]
Oct 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN US and EU sanctions on Syria are punishing civilians and undermining aid work, states a 40-page UN report, “Humanitarian impact of Syria-related unilateral restrictive measures”, prepared for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. Calling the conflict in Syria, the […]
Oct 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The United States is not the only place that will be witnessing a leadership change. Elections for top institutions and the overall leadership will be taking place within the two leading Palestinian political movements. Fateh is expected to hold its seventh congress […]
Enclave could be ‘unliveable’ by 2020 — UN By AFP – Oct 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Three-day old new-born Waleed lies wrapped in blankets at his family’s home in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Wednesday (AFP photo) GAZA, Palestine — The two millionth person has […]
This man’s story, told with the usual anonymity for this tragic place, must melt a heart of stone and so I tell it in his own words Robert Fisk in Diyabarkir @indyvoices Home again: Turkish Kurds returning to Diyarbakir in the spring after a curfew on the city is lifted […]
Source: MSN By Neha Bhatia A Hindu temple currently under construction in Abu Dhabi will be completed in 2017, its development team has announced. B R Shetty, vice chairman and […]
By Jonah Blank In This Review A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster Joshua Partlow Foreign observers of Afghanistan tend to think of former President Hamid Karzai’s government as a clan of corrupt thugs, led by a feckless, petulant whiner. In this narrative, Karzai was […]
By: Amanda Vicinanzo, Online Managing Editor 10/12/16 US efforts to curb the explosive growth of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will be futile if the nation fails to address the diverse revenue streams fueling the terrorist organization, according to a new report released by Homeland Security Chairman […]
Professor Rodney Wilson, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham Islamic banks often describe themselves as being providers of ethical financial services, but they do not spell out explicitly what is meant by this or its significance. The word ethical is used as a label, and equated […]
by Tyler Durden Oct 12, 2016 In Europe, when it gets serious, you have to lie… at least if you are an unelected bureaucrat like Jean-Claude Juncker. In Russia, however, when it gets serious, attention immediately turns to the children. Which is why we read a report in Russian website […]
The Captain called the Sergeant in. “Sarge, I just got a telegram that Private Jones’ mother died yesterday. Better go tell him and send him in to see me.” So the Sergeant calls for his morning formation and lines up all the troops. “Listen up, men,” says the Sergeant. “Johnson, […]
Sir John Sawers says Moscow has shifted balance of power but criticises Boris Johnson’s call for demo outside embassy Sir John Sawers: ‘We are not treating Russia and China as major powers that can cause us a great deal of damage.’ Photograph: Elyse Marks/Edelman/PA Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Wednesday 12 […]
OCT. 12, 2016 20-year-old Ali Atef Shyoukhi (Photo: Wadi Hilweh Information Center) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A 20-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces Tuesday night during clashes that erupted in the town of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem just south of the Old City, amid ongoing violent police […]
OCT. 11, 2016 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Scores of Jewish Israelis entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday and performed religious rituals on the occasion of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.The Islamic Endowment (Waqf) in charge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound reported that 156 Israelis escorted by Israeli police toured […]
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Reuters International OCT 12, 2016 A Turkish Army military vehicle, with the Syrian town of Kobani in the background, patrols on the Turkish-Syrian border in Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, June 26, 2015. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (reuters_tickers) ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Islamic State militants in northern Syria are putting up “stiff […]
You can’t have an isolationist policy on climate change, global terrorism, weapons deals, international cyber-crime, the Zika virus epidemic or the refugee crisis – and you can’t have an isolationist policy on birth Holly Baxter @h0llyb4xter 28 comments It is pointless for Theresa May’s Government to demand passports before giving […]
Oct 11,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Russia is playing a dangerous game in Syria and it is raising the stakes there so hastily that pundits are now talking about a sharp dip, and heightened tension, in US-Russian ties, the kind of which we have not seen since the […]