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.
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Army medics and volunteers attend to a patient suffering from injuries at an Iraqi Special Forces 2nd Division open air field clinic in the Samah neighbourhood of Mosul onThursday (AFP photo) MOSUL — Layers of hastily erected barricades built from rubble and twisted […]
Swiss soldiers are wearing boots made in Romania. Photo: AFP/Fabrice Coffrini Workers paid minimum for Swiss army boots Published: 18 Nov 2016 09:18 GMT+01:00 The Swiss army is manufacturing boots for its soldiers in Romania at the cost of just two francs an hour, according to a television report. According […]
Simon Jenkins A judge granted a dying teenager’s wish to be frozen in the hope she might live again. This decision was about the rights of all of us ‘This hope clearly gave comfort to a dying person.’ Storage facilities at one of two US cryonics institutions. Photograph: Cryonics Institute/Handout/EPA […]
Posted a day ago by Narjas Zatat in discover Since Donald Trump announced his intention to run in the presidential race, and his subsequent victory, there has been a notable […]
DAILY SABAH ANKARA Following an intense series of talks in Mont-Pelerin between Nov. 7 and Nov. 11, Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders will return to Switzerland on Nov. 20 as negotiations facilitated by the United Nations (U.N.) look set to resume. Meanwhile, speaking at the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’s […]
Source: The Daily Sabah The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) gave permission Thursday for a female Muslim basketball player to wear her headscarf while playing. The federation announced that 18-year-old Noha […]
The US president denounced the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected ‘If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for’: Barack Obama on fake […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – Men clean fishing nets near a Rohingya refugee camp outside Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar November 15, 2016. Picture taken on November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) By Serajul Quadir and Wa Lone DHAKA/SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The election of Donald Trump as the next American president has added a major new element of uncertainty to a Middle Eastern picture that had already achieved its highest state of confusion, violence and uncertainty in its modern history. The factors that […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Jeffrey D. Sachs The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, […]
MODERNITY VS TRADITION By Isobel Leybold-Johnson NOV 17, 2016 – 11:00 Marriage between a man and a woman? That is what is being debated in canton Zurich (Keystone) Voters in and around Switzerland’s biggest city will soon decide on whether to define marriage in the constitution as between a […]
“READ!” NOV 15, 2016 – 16:17 German police officers carry seized evidence during an anti-terrorism raid in Berlin on November 15 (Keystone) Switzerland has opened criminal proceedings against several people suspected of links to terrorist organisations, after morning raids at hundreds of homes in Germany. The investigations have been opened […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – 12:46 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, October 19, 2016. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Ercan Gurses and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan could govern Turkey […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – www.swissinfo.ch A woman holds her child as she crosses from the Islamic State fighters-controlled part of Mosul into the Iraqi special forces soldiers-controlled part of Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed, John Davison and Dominic Evans BAGHDAD/BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite militias […]
Nov 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab A totally different fate awaits two separate sets of homes built without licence in occupied Palestinian territories. Palestinians, especially in East Jerusalem where a city planning zone has not been approved in 49 years, face demolitions every time they dare build a dwelling for […]
HASTY EXIT NOV 16, 2016 – LeVine hosted an all-night election watching party in the capital Bern on November 9 (Keystone) The US ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Suzan G. LeVine, has announced that she will be leaving Switzerland for America on the same day the new US president will […]
ROOT Nov 16, 2016 Illustration by Bill Bragg Illustration: Bill Bragg ‘Did she win?” My bleary-eyed nine-year-old had fallen asleep on our couch the previous night, as the polls closed in Florida. When she sat across the breakfast table from me, I had to break the news that, while her […]
By Neil J. Young | October 31, 2016 Since a leaked 2005 Access Hollywood audiotape revealed Donald Trump bragging about how he sexually assaulted women—something he dismissed as “locker room banter”—more than a dozen women have come forward to allege he attacked them in the past. In response, former supporters […]
By Max Perry Mueller | October 10, 20 Hours after Donald Trump’s infamous tape was released, Republicans were calling on Mike Pence to replace his running mate atop the ticket. […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Nov 16,2016 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN—The US embassy in Amman said on Wednesday the investigation into the killing of three US instructors in a shootout at an airbase is ongoing and has not yet reached any conclusions. “Investigators are considering all potential motives and reasons for […]