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 Rana Husseini | Nov 24, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The government will form a ministerial committee to examine the possibility of granting civil rights to children of Jordanian women married to non-Jordanians, according to MP Wafaa Bani Mustafa. “We had a meeting with Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour […]
JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED ARABNEWS Published — Monday 25 November 2013 Saudi Arabia has exempted Palestinian and Burmese nationals who are found to be in violation of the new labor laws […]
SANAA: Huda Al-Niran, a Saudi woman who eloped with her Yemeni suitor last month and crossed illegally into Yemen, heaved a sigh of relief on Sunday when the United Nations […]
A Chinese government worker in the ancient Silk Road oasis of Kashgar beckons two women to her streetside stand and logs their details (pictured) under the gaze of a surveillance […]
Article by: MAURA LERNER , Star Tribune Amid deep Catholic roots, St. Thomas makes room for Muslims to practice their faith. Dark-haired young men started arriving about 12:30 p.m., piling […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: It seems, the Government of Angola has denied these claims, which some one started on internet. We encourage readers to independently investigate this issue. By […]
Bangkok (21 Nov. 2013) The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Thailand held its first annual International Peace Symposium on the theme of The Pathway to Peace. The event hosted an exhibition of […]
Source: Alislam.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivers the keynote address at ‘Africa at 50’ event On 23 November 2013, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Independence of […]
Dear All : We are pleased to inform you all that the I nteractive Bangla LIVE Q/A Program – SHOTTER SHONDHANE will be held from November 28 to December 1, 2013 at 2 pm GMT (9 am Eastern Standard Time) প্রিয় সুধী, আসসালামু আলাইকুম। এমটিএ-তে আবারও শুরু হচ্ছে আপনাদের প্রিয় অনুষ্ঠান […]
A masterful wordsmith as I believe NFP to be, I’m disappointed by some of his word selection, whether intentional or not, it was misleading,… Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | […]
by http://jamiat.org.za Source: http://jamiat.org.za By: http://jamiat.org.za Source: http://jamiat.org.za/ Firstly: a good end… A good end means when a person was guided before his death to keep away from that which angers the Lord and to repent from sin, and to focus on doing acts of worship and good deeds, and […]
More than 11,000 children have died in Syria’s civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been […]
By Will Weissert, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Board of Education used a late-night meeting to give preliminary approval to new science textbooks for classrooms across the state […]
By Courtney Subramanian @cmsubNov. 23, 2013 A leaked National Security Agency document reveals a four-year mission strategy that underscores the agency’s scope of power and desire to broaden surveillance efforts in the “golden age of Signit,” or signals intelligence. The five-page, February 2012 document, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward […]
The P5+1 world powers and Iran have struck a historic deal on Tehran’s nuclear program at talks in Geneva. Ministers overcame the last remaining hurdles to reach an interim agreement, […]
by Jason Ditz, November 21, 2013 NATO is about to lose access to its primary supply line into occupied Afghanistan, the Khyber Pass, as Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistani Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI), the political party which runs the Khyber Pakhtunkhah Province (KP) through which the supplies travel, has […]
Erol Yayboke Every year millions of Muslims from around the world participate in the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Despite being a fundamental pillar of Islam, the Hajj is often misunderstood, […]
A Wollongong woman has accused a local accountancy firm of sacking her for wanting to wear the Muslim headscarf. Mariam El Hassan, 23, had worked at the firm for five years. Her lawyer says she asked the firm if she could start wearing the headscarf to work for religious reasons […]
wissinfo.ch and agencies November 21, 2013 – 11:03 Swiss diplomat Pierre Krähenbühl has been appointed commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near […]
By: Ralph Langner BROOKINGS Editor’s Note: In a September 19, 2013 op-ed in Foreign Policy, Ralph Langner evaluates the lessons and legacy of the Stuxnet computer worm that crippled Iran’s uranium enrichment efforts in 2010. Langner reveals that another, more subtle Stuxnet variant infected Iranian industrial control systems as early […]