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.
by David Child Al Jazeera Klaus Schwab created the European Management Forum, which later became the WEF, in 1971 [Markus Schreiber/AP] The four-day 2018 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting begins […]
More Than 50 Tried in December on Charges Relating to Religion (Beirut) – Algerian authorities have stepped up trials of members of the Ahmadiyya religious minority on charges related to […]
The Local news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 18 January 2018 davosbusinesswef File photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) will see the rich and famous flying in […]
By GIDEON RACHMAN January 22, 2018 The WEF meeting in the Swiss mountain resort and the idea of elite-driven globalisation is much more contested than it was a decade ago(Keystone) When […]
Noah Barkinr BERLIN (Reuters) – The risk of political and economic confrontations between major powers, including outright military conflicts, has risen sharply, according to a survey released by the […]
Visit https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/in-depth/wef-2018 for all updates on the World Economic Forum’s Davos meeting 2018 The biggest names from politics, business and civil society descend on Davos for the 48th WEF annual […]
20 January 2018 Fifteen Syrian refugees – some of them children – have been found frozen to death while trying to cross the mountainous border into Lebanon. Thirteen bodies were […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP RIYADH In this Aug. 25, 2017 file photo, people inspect the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo) A […]
By Reuters – Jan 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Turkish armoured vehicles move towards Hassa district of Hatay, Turkey, as part of the ‘Operation Olive Branch’ on Sunday (Anadolu Agency photo) […]
Jan 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Turkey’s military intervention in the northern Syrian city of Afrin under the code name “Olive Branch” will certainly complicate the already complicated conflict in Syria. Ankara has been threatening all along to strike at the so-called Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) deployed along its southern border with […]
Acclaimed poet Widad Nabi speaks about her journey from Aleppo to Germany, the struggles she faced, and the power of writing Nabi has made a new life for herself in […]
Yossi Mekelberg | Published — Saturday 20 January 2018 Thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets at the end of every single Jewish Sabbath for the past two […]
#Politics Wilders’s party will compete in Rotterdam against Denk party, backed by Turkish and Moroccan communities Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, left, leads protest in Rotterdam on Saturday (AFP) MEE […]
Dr. Naif Alhadari | Published — Sunday 21 January 2018 How Western media covers Arab issues and events in the Islamic world, and their bias in any item that deals with the region’s politics or personalities, has become a phenomenon that is quite noticeable, especially when it has to do […]
Abdellatif El-Menawy | Published — Sunday 21 January 2018 Until recently, relations between Egypt and Ethiopia were governed by an agreement signed under the auspices of Britain in 1902, in […]
Afghan special forces kill two of the four attackers and surround building as night falls Emma Graham-Harrison, Haroon Janjua in Peshawar and agencies Sat 20 Jan 2018 Several people were […]
Columns Dr. Sujata Ashwarya | Published — Friday 19 January 2018 There is a twisted irony to the renaming, in the presence of the Israeli prime minister, of the iconic […]
A presidency built on such weak foundations will do little to help little to help any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and has already made things worse Robert Fisk […]
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Feb 9, 2015 Islam, according to the Quran, teaches love and compassion for every human being, no matter their religion, says author Adnan Oktar whose television show is watched by millions in Turkey and the Arab world. He believes the problem for the majority of Muslims is that some […]