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 AFP – Mar 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian passenger travelling to the United States through Amman types on his laptop before entering Beirut International Airport’s departure lounge on Wednesday (AFP photo) DUBAI — Travellers across the Middle East expressed frustration Wednesday at a ban on large electronic […]
Letter to the Editor South Wales Echo, UK Cardiff council has once again utterly disappointed me. The planning application to build an Ahmadi mosque in Canton has been in and out of council corridors for more than two years and the council couldn’t distinguish between Ahmadi Muslims and non-Ahmadi Muslims […]
AUGUST 8, 2014 BY ATIF MIAN AND AMIR SUFI Economists of all stripes are baffled by continued economic weakness in the United States. The easiest way to see the weakness is to compare where we are in terms of GDP today relative to historical trend growth, something we did in […]
Dr. Atif Mian – USA As part of an occasional series highlighting notable articles from the archives of The Review of Religions, we are pleased to present the following piece, originally published in 2004 in response to an op-ed written in The Washington Post on May 31, 2004, by then-President […]
by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) The Review of Religions, January 1997 Translated by Amatul-Hadi Ahmad On the evening of 16 August 1902, after the evening prayer, the Promised Messiah (as), as was his practice, sat down with his companions, for general conversation and discussion. Someone presented him with a […]
Muddassar Ahmed | Published — Tuesday 21 March 2017 Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 has set out an inspiring future for the Kingdom at a time of global economic volatility. But to fulfill this, a critical step will be to revitalize the holy city of Makkah. Vision 2030 recognizes this. Envisaging […]
MPs listen to demonstrators, pledge to examine and follow up on matter By Rana Husseini – Mar 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Protesters stage a sit-in in front of Parliament on Tuesday calling on the government to grant full citizenship rights to children of Jordanian women married to foreigners (Photo by […]
Mar 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The US delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council boycotted this body’s deliberations in Geneva on Monday because on its agenda were discussions about Israel and Palestine. The US boycott was decided before the council opened up the deliberations on the Israeli practices, […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Mar 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES In this recent photo, Syrian refugees are seen at Azraq Camp, around 100km from Amman, in the eastern desert (Photo by Amjad Ghsoun) AMMAN — Out of some 4.9 million Syrians registered with the UNHCR in the region by mid […]
Mar 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Osama Al Sharif The withdrawal last week of a UN agency report accusing Israel of being an apartheid state will not change the stark findings and harsh conclusions that two distinguished researchers had reached. The report, titled “Israeli practices towards the Palestinian people and the […]
Reuters International MAR 22, 2017 – Smoke rises during clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq March 19, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (reuters_tickers) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from 68 countries meet in Washington on Wednesday to agree on the next steps to defeat Islamic State, the […]
Reuters International MAR 21, 2017 – Belgian police officers Ann Vercammen (L) and Tarek Chatt patrol at a market in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, Belgium August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (reuters_tickers) By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Tarek Chatt says he is one of only two Brussels policemen […]
Zied is part of an increasing and chartable trend within counter terrorism: criminality, prison, radicalisation and terrorism. In Europe, the past 45 individuals out of the last 79 most recent terrorist profiles, have been incarcerated Joshua Stewart French police secure the area at Paris Orly airport in the aftermath of the shooting AFP/Getty […]
Source: Independent Studies suggest that a counsel of despair about the persuasive potential of evidence is unwarranted. People can still be amenable to reason By Ben Chu @Benchu_ This is, as has […]
Not the EU, not the eurozone crisis, not working with Trump or handling Brexit, but two political powerhouses trading blows over a swimsuit. Is this really the pinnacle of political debate in a country on the verge of an election that could prove defining in its cultural and geopolitical future? […]
I provided extensive traditions from the six authentic Sunni collections concerning the fact that Imam al-Mahdi (as) who is different than Jesus (the messiah) WILL come and he is the descendant of the Prophet (S) and his daughter Fatimah (sa). The traditions further illuminated the fact that Jesus (who was […]
By Michael Gerson Opinion writer March 20 at 7:48 PM It is difficult to overestimate the geopolitical risks of this moment — or the (both disturbed and eager) global scrutiny now being given to the American president. Aggression is growing along the westward reach of Russian influence and the southern […]
Pre-Islamic Arabia treated attacks against one’s tribesman as an attack on the tribe itself. Such an attack could result in a blood feud between the two tribes where any member of the other tribe was an object of vengeance. Through arbitration, justice could sometimes be secured by retaliation against the […]
The debate over migration is plagued by a variety of inaccuracies and misunderstandings — on both the right and the left. Here is what the research really shows. By Hein de Haas AFP Migrants at the Greece-Macedonia border in March 2016 March 21, 2017 Migration was the issue of the […]
Because the deportation of rejected asylum-seekers from Germany is the responsibility of the states, a highly arbitrary system not unlike a lottery. For the close to a half-million people expected to receive orders to be deported this year, whether they must leave or not may depend on where they live. […]