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.
Mar 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The problematic contrast between how Arabs see themselves and how they are generally perceived in the US public sphere of media and politics jolted me again this week, as I followed American mainstream mass media that mostly mentions Arab countries in the […]
Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam. This is an ongoing, evolving diagram which we hope to add to. So please send us your ideas & corrections. Thanks to Imran Ali, Andrzej Mendel, Farshad Tami, Sajjad for corrections. […]
November 2016 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) In this ground breaking address, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, expounds how, more than a millennium before the secular world, Islam first definitively established and safeguarded the rights of women 1400 years ago, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the different […]
By Celia Luterbacher MAR 7, 2017 – It’s not yet clear whether, with the rise of artificial intelligence, workforce automation will lead to an overall rise or drop in human job creation. If death and taxes are the only two things that a person can count on, should the latter […]
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Osama Al Sharif If polls are to be trusted — especially after missing their target in the US presidential elections and the Brexit vote last year — the party of the most controversial politician in the Netherlands is projected to win most seats in the […]
AMAL HASHIM Whatever conservative conceptions you had of the province of Gilgit Baltistan should be removed by now because the region has managed to have its first female judge since 2006. And she is definitely someone you do not want to cross. Her court is one of the strictest […]
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday told a parliamentary committee that the US had warned that annexing the West Bank would spark an “immediate crisis” with the US administration. The Israeli minister made his statements before leaving for the US for talks with […]
Julian Assange has claimed the documents are the biggest intelligence release ever Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin WikiLeaks has released a huge set of files that it calls “Year Zero”and which mark the biggest exposure of CIA spying secrets ever. The massive set of documents – over 8,000 pages in all – include […]
May is hardly the first avowedly Christian politician who would have made Jesus ruin his cute trick with the loaves and fish by puking over the lot of them Matthew Norman @IndyVoices When starting a column such as this, the sense of inadequacy is even more overwhelming than usual. The […]
After 9/11 it was sort of my ‘hobby’ to ask everyone of my friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances: “What was your first and second thought at the moment you saw the collaps of the Twin Towers” ? (we were not even told at the time that there was a ‘Tower […]
MARKAZ Morocco: The king’s dilemma Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs Thursday, March 2, 2017 In his 1968 book, “Political Order in Changing Societies,” Samuel Huntington coined the term […]
PAST EVENT This item has: Video Sunday, Feb 26, 2017 The Brookings Doha Center (BDC) hosted a panel discussion on February 26, 2017, which explored the motives fueling Russia’s foreign policy, especially after the approval of Russia’s new Foreign Policy Concept. The panel included Andrey Kortunov, director-general of the Russian […]
Beverley Milton-Edwards Wednesday, February 22, 2017 MARKAZ King Abdullah II of Jordan has had every reason to be pleased with himself lately. Following the January inauguration of President Donald Trump, […]
BY PHILIPPA MORGAN Nike+ Run Club Coach Manal Rostom for Nike Pro Hijab. Courtesy of Nike Following its successful “What Will They Say About You Campaign” and Nike+ Training Club […]
By S.A. Miller – The Washington Times – Updated: 12:25 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 WikiLeaks published thousands of purported CIA documents Tuesday that claim to show intimate […]
Pakistan by Mahmood Idrees | Published on March 7, 2017 🔗 KUWAIT CITY – The Kuwaiti government on Tuesday lifted a ban on visas for Pakistani citizens which had been imposed six years ago. It is being reported that the decision was made during a meeting between PM Nawaz […]
BY PHILLIP CONNOR7 COMMENTS Construction workers from India wait for transportation near the Grand Hormuz Hotel in Muscat, Oman. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) India has a long history of migration. More than a century ago, large numbers of Indian migrants – many of them involuntary ones – moved to […]
Agence France Presse | Published — Tuesday 7 March 2017 Previous In this Jan. 14, 2017 photo, protesters hold cutouts of impeached President Park Geun-hye who is embroiled in a corruption scandal, during a protest in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File) In this Dec. 3, 2016, file photo, […]
REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR Saudi King Salman, left, listens to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak during the MOU signing ceremony in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. (AP Photo) Malaysia on Tuesday said seven militants arrested late last month ahead of a visit Saudi Arabia’s King Salman were planning an attack […]
HAKAN ARSLANBENZER ISTANBUL PublishedMarch 3, 2017 Known as the forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography, Ibn Khaldun was an Arabic scholar who was born into the rich […]