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.
. Reuters International This content was published on February 5, 2018 Local residents carry bodies taken from the rubble in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq January 17, 2018. Picture […]
Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The vacuum left by the recent fall of Daesh is being filled by new terror groups, who are forming and developing networks through existing criminal groups in order to raise money and transport weapons. This has led to an increase in […]
Residents slowly trickle back to the city after recapture from Daesh By AFP – Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Aphrem II, gives a sermon […]
In March 2018, a French government-appointed commission will outline what happened to more than 2,000 children at the hands of the French state between 1963 and 1982. These children, from the island of Réunion, a French overseas department, were resettled in rural parts of France where populations were in decline. […]
Crime scene investigators at work after a shooting in Macerata, Italy [Carotti Nest/EPA] A gunman has injured six African migrants in the Italian city of Macerata in a series of […]
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This photo taken on Saturday shows smoke billows from the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of […]
This content was published on February 3, 2018 4:06 PMFeb 3, 2018 – 16:06 Knowledge is power: a classroom in the Philippines. (Keystone) Switzerland has announced it is stepping […]
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — An independence push by southern separatists, who have seized the Yemeni government’s de facto capital, has laid bare deepening fault […]
JRP seeks to compensate Kingdom for burdens ensuing from regional crises By Rana Husseini – Feb 02,2018 -JORDAN TIMES Scene from Zaatari refugee camp, some 80km northeast of Amman (Photo […]
Feb 01,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri For most of the past two centuries, Egypt has been the epicentre, litmus test, proving ground, and mother of cultural and […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 2, 2018 4:22 PMFeb 2, 2018 – 16:22 BERLIN (Reuters) – A mosque in northwest Germany may no longer broadcast its Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker for now after a local court upheld a challenge by […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 2, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal sits for an interview with Reuters in the office of the […]
Dr Heddo – trained as a doctor at the Aleppo medical school, he confided – wouldn’t exactly confirm he was an official of the YPG although he certainly sounded like it. […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 2, 2018 Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Foreign Ministry in Athens, Greece, January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Costas Baltas (reuters_tickers) ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has launched an investigation after its foreign minister received a letter […]
Source: JORDAN TIMES By Kamal Naffa, who is former professor of philosophy at California State University, Fullerton The time has come to consider the values and practices of secularism as […]
As India’s space program surges ahead, Pakistan’s remains an afterthought. By Raja Mansoor February 01, 2018 India’s space program is thriving as one of the […]
Debts will have to be paid for the casualties of this war, and some soldiers are becoming rather too over-confident Robert Fisk Hama, Syria @indyvoices Thursday 1 February 2018 A […]
Emir Abdelkader was a Muslim, Sufi, sheikh, humanist, protector of his people against Western barbarism, protector of Christians against Muslim barbarism, so noble that Abe Lincoln sent him a pair […]
ELIF BINICI @elifebinici ISTANBUL Chairman of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MÜSİAD) Abdurrahman Kaan. The burden of interest rates on investors, which harms competitiveness of investors in international markets […]
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