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.
DAMMAM: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 2 May 2015 Work is under way to complete the Gulf rail project, which is currently in the design stage, said Minister of Transport and Chairman of the Board of the Saudi Ports Authority Abdullah Al-Moqbil. GCC ministers of transport are closely following […]
An aerial view shows tens of thousands of tents hosting pilgrims in Mina near the holy city of Makkah, in this October 5, 2014 file photo. (AFP) JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 2 May 2015 A total of 71 camps will be provided to the beneficiaries of the […]
Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: the Emirates enigma – who’s really in charge? Tracing the evolution of Abu Dhabi’s rulers from desert introverts to global treasure-hunters – and explaining the complex blend of kinship and rivalry that governs their relationship with the more ostentatious Dubai and Qatar ROBERT FISK ABU […]
PERSONAL TECH | GADGETWISE Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat Is the Luxury You Won’t Want to Live Without By FARHAD MANJOOAPRIL 29, 2015 Photo The Toto Washlet toilet. CreditToto IT may sound as if I’m exaggerating when I say that a high-tech, heated, warm-water-spraying bidet toilet seat ruined me for regular […]
MEDITERRANEAN CRISIS ‘Migrants are not adventurers or tourists’ By Luigi Jorio APR 28, 2015 – 11:00 Since the beginning of the year, 16,900 migrants have landed in Italy, among them many women and children (Keystone) Europe has the wrong approach for containing the number of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, an […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 25 April 2015 Last update 26 April 2015 2:14 pm The expansion of the mataf, or circumambulation area around the Kaaba, will be ready […]
Reuters / Jordan Times / Apr.29, 2015 A file picture taken on June 18, 2004 shows Saudi Arabia’s Adel Al Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to the Saudi Crown Prince, addressing a press conference at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC (AFP photo) RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s new foreign minister, a […]
Al Jazeera Marwan Bishara © Provided by Al Jazeera Muslims have a long memory and deep distrust of Western motives when it comes to provoking war or invoking Islam. Not a day passes without certain pundits sharing their newfound “insights” about Islam; “Islam at war”, “Islam’s war within”, or “Islam’s […]
Patriarch Philaret Killings in the Name of Ukrainian Land of Donbas by HALYNA MOKRUSHYNA On March 22, in his Sunday sermon, the Patriarch Philaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate explained to his parishioners in Volodymyrsky cathedral in Kyiv that Ukrainian soldiers who are killing civilians and rebels […]
By Thomas J. Reese and Daniel I. Mark “Our people survived [deportation by] Stalin,” commented a manager of ATR, which, until April 1, was the only Crimean Tatar television station left. “Will they not survive these current problems?” Russian authorities had just shut it down—along with other media outlets—by refusing […]
Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis? Who, What, WhyThe Magazine answers the questions behind the news 8 August 2014 SOURCE: bbc.com Share Among the many victims of the advance of The Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East are a group of up to 50,000 Yazidis, who are trapped […]
Posted by Andrew Cockburn at 8:00am, April 28, 2015. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. No one can claim that plotting assassination is new to Washington or that, in the past, American leaders and the CIA didn’t aim high: the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo. […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star What happens when chronic violence and brutal aggression go unchecked for decades on end? We see an example of this in the release this week of the findings of a United Nations internal investigation of events during last summer’s war in Gaza. The report […]
Summary Shashi Tharoor| The Daily Star Roy’s brutal murder (his wife was maimed, but survived) – together with the fatal stabbing of another atheist blogger, Washiqur Rahman, barely a month […]
Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: The acceptable face of the Emirates While Dubai is a byword for excess, vulgarity and human rights abuses, the UAE’s capital affects a higher calling. So, alongside the Emirates Palace Hotel (1,022 crystal chandeliers), the Grand Mosque (capacity: 40,000) and four million foreign workers, there […]
The Daily Star The pace of military developments in Syria has picked up noticeably in recent weeks; nearly all of the news has been bad for supporters of President Bashar Assad. Some have begun speaking of the “beginning of the end” of the regime, but its true strongholds – from […]
By Jörg Diehl, Hubert Gude, Barbara Schmid and Fidelius Schmid http://www.spiegel.de DPA/ Syriadeeply.org Much is known about men leaving Germany to take up arms on behalf of Islamic State. Less has been reported about the flocks of women traveling to Syria to join the jihad. Experts view them as a growing terrorist […]
by Dina Rickman in news Finally, a spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Britain told i100.co.uk the group was part of a “small band of naysayers”. On the one hand we have anti-Muslim bigots telling us that Muslims participating in politics is a threat to our democracy, while a band of misguided […]
In the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar and ISIS stronghold west of Mosul, several hundred Ezidis are being held captive since August last year. After dozens of women, children and in some cases men managed to escape from Tal Afar following an intensification of armed clashes with Peshmerga and HPS forces […]
PNN Published on Monday, 20 October 2014 11:00 Days of Palestine Day of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation signed on Sunday a deal with Egypt to supply natural gas worth $500-700 every year for next seven years. A deal of understanding with a company representing nongovernmental consumers in Egypt, under […]