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 Muhittin Ataman Sep 18, 2024 – DAILY SABAH U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald […]
by Agencies ISTANBUL Sep 18, 2024 Edited By Nurbanu Tanrıkulu Kızıl A general view shows the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP File Photo) […]
Maria Maalouf September 18, 2024 Three years after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, both Democrats and Republicans are revisiting the incident. Neither side is providing a credible or comprehensive […]
Azouz Begag September 18, 2024 Pas-de-Calais, France, Sept. 3: illegal immigration kills again. The umpteenth sinking of a boat in the English Channel on the way to Britain claimed the […]
Mohamed Chebaro September 19, 2024 Another week and yet another plan to reduce migration to Europe comes to life. But I am not sure any nation can pay their way […]
Update People react after a reported device explosion occurred during the funeral of people killed when hundreds of paging devices exploded across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut’s southern suburbs […]
Sep 17,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud Never in its history of war, and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future, and the future of its victims. Even a quick glance at headlines in international media reveals the depth of the […]
Sep 18,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Israel’s 11-month military campaign in Gaza is a war against children. Children are killed, wounded, permanently maimed, traumatised, buried beneath rubble, orphaned, […]
EU’s Josep Borrell and Ireland’s Micheál Martin criticise attack, with Borrell saying it caused ‘heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages LIVE Updated 10m ago Martin Belam (now) and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)Wed 18 Sep 2024 14.04 BSTShareShow key events only From 20m ago 13.54 BST EU’s Borell: pager detonations had ‘heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians’ The EU’s top diplomat […]
EU’s Josep Borrell and Ireland’s Micheál Martin criticise attack, with Borrell saying it caused ‘heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages LIVE Updated 16m ago Martin Belam (now) and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)Wed 18 Sep 2024 14.04 BSTShareShow key events only EU’s Borell: pager detonations had ‘heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians’ The EU’s top diplomat has described the […]
Person is carried on a stretcher outside American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) as people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded and killed when the pagers they use […]
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September 11, 2024 ‘The positions of Aisha have been tragically dulled through the canonization process, but not entirely obscured from the historical record,’ writes Sofia Rehman in her new book Gendering […]
In his new essay, the Israeli historian delves into the ‘eclipsed’ currents of Zionism that dreamt of a binational state as an alternative to Jewish nationalism Israeli soldiers on guard […]
By Imran Mulla 17 August 2024 Abdulmecid II, the last caliph, dreamt of resurrecting the caliphate abolished by Turkey It was mid-morning but already 40 degrees Celsius in the shade when […]
16th September 2024 In an era where information flows endlessly from countless sources, people find themselves starved of truth. The digital age, heralded as the dawn of unparalleled access to knowledge, has instead become a battleground where fact and falsehood battle for supremacy. The very platforms designed to enlighten us […]
September 14, 2024 Supporters of Palestine hold a protest outside of graduation ceremonies for Hunter College students at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York City on June 04, 2024. [Photo […]
Swiss Abroad Listen to the articleToggle language selectorShare Every family has mysteries, but few involve an ancestor who was mummified. The anecdote of Claudio Mazzucchelli’s “Pasha great-grandfather” circulated for decades […]
by DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Jul 18, 2021 – People walk in the flooded historic center, in Hallein, Austria, July 17, 2021. (AFP PHOTO) Aheroic act of an Austrian man saved the […]
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation headquarters in Jeddah. (Twitter @OIC_OCI) Updated 11 sec ago Arab News September 17, 2024 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s representative to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation received […]