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.
Source: Spiegel International Hundreds of poverty-stricken refugees are drowning in the Mediterranean, while at the same time, many European Union member states issue residence permits to wealthy Chinese, Arabs and […]
DETROIT — This city is learning that it is expensive to go broke. Even as it wrestles with the $18 billion of debt that has overwhelmed it, Detroit has already been billed more than $19.1 million by firms hired to sort through that debt, search for ways to restructure it, […]
Source: symmetry By: Kathryn Jepsen 1. Peter Higgs’ best-known paper on the new particle was initially rejected. But this was a blessing in disguise, since it led Higgs to add a […]
Source: Stratfor: By George Friedman In general, Stratfor deals with U.S. domestic politics only to the extent that it affects international affairs. Certainly, this topic has been argued and analyzed extensively. Nevertheless, the shutdown of the American government is a topic that must be understood from our point of view, […]
Prof Dr Tom Kibble of UK delivering his lecture in Bensheim Germany By Zubair Khan Photographie: Abdullah Adeel Pictures Land of pure, its leaders as well masses have shunned and vilified Dr. Salaam. Even Pakistan history has been mitigated to denounce this great man of the Pakistani soil. However still […]
World Bank says allowing Palestinians to use the 61% of the West Bank under full Israeli control would boost the economy by Harriet Sherwood theguardian.com, Tuesday 8 October 2013 Israel’s […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – General Ashfaq Parvez Kiani, one of Pakistan’s most powerful men, has announced his retirement from the post of Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) on November 29. With one stroke on Sunday, General Kiani put to rest speculation in the media that […]
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – Who remembers Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, the Southern states that fought the Northern states lead by president Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War? Barack Obama, really and symbolically black, looks like the true vindication and completion of that […]
Source: NY Times: The basic outlines of poverty in America are sadly familiar. At last count, 46.5 million people were poor — 15 percent of the population. Women and children, especially in single-mother families, were, as always, hit hardes. More:
Source: Morocco World News: STOCKHOLM – The 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three Americans – James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and German-born Thomas C. Sudhof – for their discoveries of machinery regulating a major transport system in the body’s cells. More:
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments Mr. Bean may not have converted but reading about the prophet Muhammad in the Muslim Times, may help him convert. For starters here is a BBC video: Source of the news: Morocco World News RABAT- A lot of people follow news about celebrities converting to Islam, […]
Oil-rich Qatar invests extensively around the world without a hitch. One of the largest recipients of Qatari money is France, where the Gulf state bankrolls media and construction companies and owns Paris-Saint Germain, now one of the world’s richest soccer clubs. But France is also another example of how efforts […]
by Mariam Ghani My parents have a house in Dar ul-Aman, a neighborhood on the western outskirts of Kabul that was once a separate city, when Kabul was much smaller […]
As the month of October has started, you might have realized that the last month of the Islamic calendar is also beginning. This month is Dhul-Hijjah, an exciting month because it brings together millions of Muslims to Mecca for Hajj and has ‘Īd! Of course, you’re very excited for ‘Īd, […]
By David Loyn BBC News, Kabul The race to succeed Afghan President Hamid Karzai in next April’s election looked wide open as nominations closed on Sunday night. Twenty-two people have […]
6 October 2013 Last updated at 20:25 BST At least 44 people have been killed and dozens hurt in Egypt, in clashes between police and supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. More than 200 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were arrested in Cairo, where 40 of the deaths […]
A couple of days after she fled Syria for Turkey, a colleague sent me a message. “Dear Nuri, this is a court that the extremists established in my city, Lattakia, in the [Syrian] village of Kansabba. This Islamic court issues the law according to the extremists’ religion. It started today. […]
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Sunday demanded Palestinians remove 10 solar panels from their rooftops in the Yatta region south of Hebron, a local group said. The coordinator of […]
VIEW : Sakina awaits Tomahawk in Damascus By Tehsin Haider Zaidi Arab countries are so excited to applaud the destruction of Damascus that according to Senator John Kerry they have offered to pay the cost of military intervention I visited Sakina only once during my trip to Damascus in 2004. […]
A topical film covering the ground-breaking global Muslim-Christian inter-faith initiative, ‘A Common Word’ will premiere during this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas on Monday, 28 October. Professor David Ford OBE, […]