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.
Forty years on, Al Jazeera examines three weeks of war from which both Arabs and Israelis claimed to emerge victorious. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat once called it the last war. But 40 years after Sadat uttered those words, the Arab-Israeli conflict has no end in sight. The story of the […]
Source: The National By: Hugo Berger | September 19, 2013 An exhibition into the time when Arabic scientific knowledge surpassed the rest of the world is starting next week at the […]
LAHORE: The Muslim and Christian communities came together in a show of solidarity in Lahore, Express News reported Sunday. Hand in hand as many as 200 people formed a human […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of cities in the European Union by Muslim population is located in Europe Europe EU laea location map.svg Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Europe.[1][2] Since 1960s immigrants from Muslim countries started to appear in Western European countries, such as Germany, France and Belgium. […]
‘I met those men who assassinated my own son – and they told me they didn’t even know whom they were killing.” Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, the Grand Mufti of […]
Source: The Economist: THE first law of diplomacy, one late British foreign-office mandarin used to quip, is that “It is not the other side you need to worry about, but your own.” When India’s prime minister met his Pakistani counterpart in New York on September 29th, each had cause to […]
President Abdullah Gul warned the Muslim world on Friday of the possibility of facing the darkness of the Middle Ages as Europe once did if interest-based beliefs are combined with […]
As electricity and gas shortages continue to cripple the Gaza Strip one student has developed an ingenious method to combat the problem. 18 year old Ibrahim Saad has designed and […]
Tunisia’s political rivals have agreed on a timetable for the Islamist-led ruling coalition to quit and be replaced by a government of independents. The Islamist Ennahda party and opposition groups […]
Saudi Arabia appears to be determined to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood in a manner similar to the UAE, where security services have already arrested over 90 members of […]
John Ward, whose dreams would one day come true, though perhaps not in the way he had wanted; he would become Jack Birdy, the most fearsome pirate in the world, […]
Oct 4, 2013, 10.47PM IST Reuters LE RAINCY, France: A pink and orange all-women’s gym has become an unlikely focus of a very French row over Muslim integration, secularism and […]
Pune: A Sharia Court conducted solely by women with an aim to redress grievances of Muslim women has started functioning in the city. Set up by Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), the first all-women Sharia Court in Pune will deal with various family issues, including marital discord, divorce as well […]
By Brian MacQuarrie | GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 05, 2013 The homeless Boston man who found and returned a backpack containing more than $42,000 in cash and traveler’s checks is about […]
October 4, 2013 – 10:42 Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga has told a high-level United Nations meeting that migrants worldwide should be better protected. “For a long time, Switzerland was […]
Momani says King’s efforts ‘decisive’ in obtaining the resolution Jordan Times AMMAN — Minister of State for Media Affairs and Government Spokesperson Mohammad Momani on Friday highlighted the efforts of […]
Arab News In his article “Gulf between perception and reality of Muslims” (Oct.3), Aijaz Zaka Syed has once again echoed the feelings of all Muslims around the globe who feel bad about the way the entire community is being blamed for the wrongdoings of a few, who in the name […]
Believe it or not, at a time when younger people are becoming victims of even minor infections, three Indian pilgrims above the age of 100 have arrived in the Kingdom […]
Ariel says “All the area located to the west of the Jordan River is owned by Israel and it will continue to be under Israeli control forever,” Israeli housing minister, […]
Source: MSN During a major policy speech Monday, September 30, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will no longer ban women from wearing Hijab in state institution. “It […]