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.
‘The first technology revolution caused World War I,’ Mr Ma said. ‘The second technology revolution caused World War II. This is the third technology revolution.’ Josie Cox Business Editor Thursday 22 June 2017 Chinese business magnate Jack Ma said that evolving technologies are likely to pose a threat to more […]
Tensions between the US, Russia, China and North Korea continue to escalate By Neal Baker, Tom Gillespie and Mark Hodge 7th July 2017, TENSIONS between the US, Russia, China and North Korea continue to escalate, with each power refusing to back down. And after Kim Jong-un tested the […]
Published time: 8 Jul, 2017 21:13 Get short URL Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev © Odd Andersen / AFP Donald Trump’s positive impressions about his “tremendous” first meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg is a good thing, but concrete steps are now needed […]
Catherine Shakdam is a political analyst, writer and commentator for the Middle East with a special focus on radical movements and Yemen. A regular pundit on RT and other networks her work has appeared in major publications: MintPress, the Foreign Policy Journal, Mehr News and many others.Director of Programs […]
They were promised asylum somewhere closer to home. Then they were discarded — often in a war zone. BY ANDREW GREEN JUNE 27, 2017 KIGALI, Rwanda — The man picked Afie Semene and the 11 other Eritreans on the flight from Tel Aviv out of the stream of disembarking passengers as […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL U.S. President Donald Trump, Interpreter Emrah Kale, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu talk during the working session at the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. (Reuters Photo) Several news websites including Wall Street Journal have mistaken Presiden Recep Tayyip […]
Reuters International JULY 8, 2017 French-Jewish writer Marek Halter (2nd R), Imam Hassen Chalghoumi (L) and other Imams, are seen during the start of a European tour to the […]
Jul 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Helle Thorning-Schmidt Almost a decade ago, facing a near-collapse of the financial system and the risk of a depression, the world needed a new form of leadership to navigate and restore confidence in the global economy. That is why, in 2009, at his first global […]
By AFP – Jul 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Iraqi federal police pose for a picture with an upside down Daesh group flag in the Old City […]
Jul 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the internationally famed physicist and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, of Cambridge University, expressed gloom and doom about the future of planet Earth and the people living on it. In a rare television interview conducted with him […]
Source: Pakistan Today BY SYED M MURTAZA Pakistan’s social media crack-down is officially aimed at weeding out blasphemy and shutting down accounts promoting terrorism, but civil rights activists say it […]
ART & CULTURE TUNGGUL WIRAJUDAA MEDIA PRACTITIONER FOR OVER 10 YEARS IN BOTH TV AND PRINT. Jakarta | Fri, July 7, 2017 | A female visitor marveling at one of T. Sutanto’s works. (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda) The figure sat atop the horse, both man and beast resplendent in their rich […]
Delegates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017.REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin | HAMBURG World leaders meeting for a summit in Germany have agreed every aspect of a joint statement apart from the section on […]
KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT@KilicKanat The Trump administration seems to be taking some initiatives now that the deadline has passed in the Gulf crisis Articles COLUMNSThe future of Qatar crisis remains vague COLUMNSAre Gulf states on the same side as the US in the Qatar rift? COLUMNSUrgent need for active […]
Reuters International JULY 7, 2017 ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have seized or appointed an administrator to 965 companies with total annual sales of some 21.9 billion lira (£4.7 billion) in the year since an attempted coup in July 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said […]
Reuters International JULY 7, 2017 UNHCR High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi gestures during a news conference at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha (reuters_tickers) By Donna Airoldi BANGKOK (Reuters) – The head of the U.N. refugee agency urged Myanmar on Friday to grant citizenship […]
Sir John Chilcot’s new comments on Tony Blair relying on ‘belief rather than fact’ has chilling parallels with our present day political dilemma James Moore @JimMooreJourno In a wide ranging interview with the BBC, Sir John Chilcot said Tony Blair was “not straight with the nation” and relied on belief rather than fact […]
‘We don’t have a policy in Syria,’ one former US State Department official told me. ‘Everybody in the Middle East knows that whatever is said by the Pentagon, State Department or National Security Council lacks authority because whatever assurances they give may be contradicted within the hour by a presidential tweet or […]
Gov’t downplays accusations of hampering opposition’s participation in Astana talks By Mohammad Ghazal – Jul 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian girl carries a large jug of water on her back while on her way home, in the Kallaseh district of the northern city of Aleppo, on Wednesday (AFP […]
LivingRohini Nair Jun, 04 2017 In 1887, a young Indian orderly was brought to England to serve at Queen Victoria’s court, during her Golden Jubilee Celebrations. Something about the “tall, […]