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.
Uppma Virdi won IABCA Businesswoman of the year- 2016 award. (Supplied) From successful lawyer to Chai seller: Uppma Virdi’s story is a reverse-Slumdog-Millionaire. And she’s been crowned Indian-Australian Businesswoman of the Year ((Fox Searchlight/Instagram)) Uppma Virdi is crowned the IABCA Business Woman of the Year 2016 (Instagram) Uppma Virdi won […]
Qasim Rashid, Esq. @MuslimIQ Shia Muslims in Mosul, Iraq helping Christians rebuild their church. This is the true Islam Prophet Muhammad(sa) taught. #Beautiful
Nov 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ashoka Mody Next year, Germany will hold a federal election, and the new Bundestag will choose the country’s next chancellor. Whether or not Angela Merkel retains the role — at the moment, things are not looking good for her or her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) […]
‘I can offer them a really, really amazing income,’ says overworked doctor Eleanor Ross Tuesday 23 February 2016 26 comments Tokoroa has a population of around 14,000 Sarah Macmillan/Flickr A £190,000 salary, three months of holiday and no night or weekend work for a job in an idyllic part of New […]
One Syrian lieutenant described to me how he directed his artillery fire onto an Israeli jeep in the Jabhat al-Nusra occupied town of Al-Hamidiya inside Syria and destroyed it. The jeep might have been a gift or borrowed from Israel Robert Fisk Baath City, below the Syrian Golan Heights @indyvoices Friday […]
Source: Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East Freedom of the press has been one of the chief casualties of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule. He has confiscated newspapers, sued their […]
October 17, 2016 – 12:18pm | admin By Ahmet S. Yayla In late September, a Turkish hacker group, RedHack, released the emails of Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Hackers have claimed that they downloaded around 20 gigabytes of data from […]
Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world It has three known chambers and was built as a Pharaohs tomb Experts have now confirmed the existence of hidden space in the pyramid using radiography scanning By AFP and LIBBY PLUMMER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 14:52 GMT, 15 […]
OIC secretary-general Iyad Madani resigns following Egypt row Al AhramThe secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Bin Amin Madani has resigned from his post for health reasons, a statement on the OIC’s official website read on Monday. The resignation of the OIC secretary general comes only few […]
ANADOLU AGENCY WEST BANK PublishedNovember 3, 2016 A picture taken on November 3, 2016 shows a partial view of the Jewish settlement of Gilo in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. (AFP PHOTO) The Israeli authorities have approved construction of 181 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian expert on Israeli […]
Designed to house 20,000 people, the bunker was built in and over two motorway tunnels. Photo: Unterirdisch Ueberleben Published: 20 Oct 2016 Opened 40 years ago at the height of the Cold War, the Sonnenberg bunker in Lucerne was one of the largest public fallout shelters in the world and […]
SINEM CENGIZ | Published — Saturday 5 November 2016 Sinem Cengiz Last month, while referring to Turkey’s concerns regarding the situation in Iraq to Crimea, Syria to Cyprus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Turkey is not just Turkey… it is also responsible to the hundreds of millions of our […]
Reuters International NOV 4, 2016 – Police detain Sebahat Tuncel, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), during a protest against the arrest of Kurdish lawmakers, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar (reuters_tickers) DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of […]
FINAL VERDICT NOV 4, 2016 – 14:51 The Imam Centre in Volketswil, canton Zurich was the planned site of a kindergarten that was denied its operating permit by Switzerland’s highest court (Keystone) Switzerland’s highest court has ruled that canton Zurich correctly denied an Islamic society’s request to open a […]
Nov 03,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Many African leaders have been angry for a number of years because the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the affiliated Rwanda and Sierra Leone war crimes courts appear to have focused exclusively on African war criminals — in Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory […]
By JT – Nov 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — At least two US flight instructors were killed in a shooting at the gate of the King Faisal Airbase in Jafer, Maan, on Friday while they were in a car about to enter the premises, the Jordan News Agency, […]
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria’s larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Soran, near Hama, Syria @indyvoices Thursday 3 November 2016 The Hamdo family collect what is left of their home Nelofer Pazira […]
Citing an unnamed ultra-Orthodox expert on the seminal ‘Zohar’ work, Marc Zell says Trump campaign staffers in US were ‘amazed’ at the news By Times of Israel staff November 2, 2016 Donald Trump holds a question-and-answer session with Jewish reporters at his offices at Trump Tower, New York, April 14, […]
By Reuters – Nov 02,2016 -JORDAN TIMES People walk past a damaged site after an air strike in the besieged rebel-held town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) MOSCOW — Russia on Wednesday told anti-government rebels holed up in Syria’s Aleppo to leave […]
JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB – NOV 3, 2016 November 2 is etched in the minds of Palestinians and Arabs as a dark day. November 2, 2017, will mark the 100th anniversary of the date when a British official promised a Zionist leader a Jewish state in a country that […]