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.
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL AA Photo A freelance journalist working for Anadolu Agency was shot in the foot by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli police officers. The photojournalist was covering a weekly protest against the separation barrier in the northern West Bank when he was shot. According […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLINGTON A member of the public looks at the dead Pilot whales during a mass stranding at Farewell Spit on February 11, 2017. (AFP Photo) A new pod of 240 whales swam aground at a remote New Zealand beach on Saturday just hours after weary volunteers managed […]
Turkish public will vote on proposed constitutional changes in referendum announced for April Bethan McKernan Beirut @mck_beth Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved a controversial bill that could see him stay in office until 2029, before it goes to a country-wide referendum. Under the proposed far-reaching changes to the executive […]
By SHIREEN YOUNUS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER When I was four years old, my mother taught me how to read the Quran. We started with the Arabic alphabet. I remember learning how to sound out “alif,” the first letter in the word “Allah,” and “sheen,” the first letter of my own […]
View of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank on Feb. 7, 2017. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) By William Booth February 10, 2017 JERUSALEM —President Trump warned Israel on Friday that building more homes in Jewish settlements was not “good for peace” and said he wanted Israel to “act reasonably” […]
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Reuters International FEB 9, 2017 – By Emily Wither and Girish Gupta ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – At a training course in northern Iraq, people displaced by the wars in Mosul and neighbouring Syria are learning how to code. Some are already being sought by global companies even though they […]
Reuters International FEB 9, 2017 – U.S. Army General John Nicholson, Commander of Resolute Support forces and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, speaks during a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart and Idrees […]
Reuters International FEB 10, 2017 – 04:02 Iranian citizen and U.S green card holder Cyrus Khosravi (L) greets his brother, Hamidreza Khosravi (C), and niece, Dena Khosravi (R), 2, after they were detained for additional screening following their arrival to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to visit Cyrus, during a pause […]
Reuters International FEB 10, 2017 – (reuters_tickers) By Tom Allard and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – As a few hundred protesters held a rally outside his home in an upscale Jakarta neighbourhood this week, Indonesia’s former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took to twitter to vent his […]
Feb 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Monday was a rough day for moral clarity in the Middle East. We heard from the respected Amnesty International that up to 13,000 Syrian prisoners were tortured and hanged in a government jail. The American president promised to expand military spending […]
EXPLAINER By Stefania Summermatter, Marc-André Miserez FEB 9, 2017 – The construction industry is heavily reliant on foreign workers (Keystone) On February 9, 2017, a deadline expired to implement immigration quotas approved in a nationwide vote three years earlier. With a solution still a long way off, we look […]
BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON FEBRUARY 9, 2017 Escape the cold during Welcome Weekend, presented by RBC, which will offer free admission to the Aga Khan Museum on February 11 and 12, 2017. Visitors will have access to Syria: A Living History, a highly acclaimed exhibition that illuminates Syria’s rich and […]
Image copyrightAPImage captionArmy Captain Matthew Ball (R) hugs his former interpreter Qismat Amin at San Francisco International Airport A US Army officer has brought his former Afghan interpreter to live with him in America amid fears he could fall foul of new immigration restrictions. Capt Matthew Ball paid for Qismat […]
They might get the US embassy moved to Jerusalem – but they might also be very worried that Steve Bannon is going to provoke a war with Iran. What did the US government mean, when it said Iran was ‘on notice’ after its recent missile test? Was that a warning […]
by Tamim Mobayed Abu Zayd al-Balkhi was a 9th century Muslim polymath, whose writings touched on subjects as varied as geography, medicine, philosophy, theology, politics, poetry, ethics, sociology, grammar, literature and astronomy. Born in 849 CE (235 AH) in the Persian village of Shamisitiyan, within the Balkh (from which he gets […]
by IlmFeed When 7 year old Jack Swanson heard that the Islamic Center of Pflugerville in Texas had been vandalised, he decided to donate all of his savings – $20 dollars – to the mosque. Vandals had torn pages of the Qur’an, covered it in faeces and left it outside the […]
AFP January 26, 2017 Muslim pilgrims walk past the crane that collapsed the day before at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy Muslim city of Mecca on September 12, 2015 (AFP Photo/-) More Riyadh (AFP) – A Saudi court on Thursday dismissed charges against 13 accused over a crane collapse […]
There’s more to this Sufi mystic than meets the eye. 01/27/2017 Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor More than seven centuries after his death, Rumi’s poetry still has the capacity to fascinate his readers. The 13th century Sufi theologian and poet Jalal al-Din Mohammad Rumi is one America’s best-selling poets. His […]