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.
Can the language barrier be breached? Google certainly thinks so: Under the leadership of a computer scientist from Germany, the company is making progress toward a universal translation tool. But […]
Story Summary By Fareed Zakaria The Daily Star Whatever the twisted path, whether by design or accident, the Obama administration has ended up in a better place on Syria than looked possible even days ago. The president was wise to take up and begin to test the Russian offer to […]
Saudi Arabia tops the list of Middle East’s billionaires, with 64 highly wealthy individuals possessing $204 billion in 2013, the Wealth-X and UBS World Ultra Wealth Report said. “There are 1,360 rich people in the Kingdom with a total wealth of $285 billion,” the report pointed out. The UAE came […]
Source: Wasim Sr via Mobile Reuters Com: By Maria Golovnina and Sheree Sardar AKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan (Reuters) – He is known as the Father of the Taliban, a radical Pakistani cleric who calls the Taliban’s one-eyed leader an “angel” and runs a seminary described as the University of Jihad. Bespectacled […]
In the meantime it is safe to say that Britain is not France. Ours is not a constitutionally secular country; nor one that in colonial times assigned itself a “mission civilatrice” and explicitly sought full assimilation as an alternative to grappling with the complexities of clashing cultures. Ahmadiyya Times | […]
Posted on 09/16/2013 by Juan Cole The hawks who are deeply disappointed that diplomacy has likely forestalled a US military intervention in Syria in the foreseeable future often attempt to tug at our heart strings by pointing to the over 100,000 dead and the millions of displaced, implying that the […]
Source: Abid Khan Incharge Press Desk AMJ On Friday, September 13, 2013, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spoke with […]
Vijay Prashad / Jadaliyya Dear Friend: You are in Syria, somewhere in Damascus. You have been involved in various protests to fight for more democratic space in Syria, and then, after the early months of 2011, to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Asad. I have learned a great deal from […]
PNN/ Exclusive 13th September, 2013 marks the two-decade anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords. In light of this occasion, the Emergency Water and Sanitation/Hygiene (EWASH) Advocacy Task Force […]
By Deana Nassar Freelance Writer Sunday, 15 September 2013 00:00 I realized as a child that while being a Muslim was awesome, being a minority was difficult Facing yet another challenge and being vulnerable, it was only natural that during these trying times I backtrack to help myself recover. As […]
by KRISHNADEV CALAMUR September 12, 2013 So it seemed Libya’s oil industry had survived intact and wouldn’t be roiling international markets. As recently as April, the country was producing 1.4 […]
Farhat Abbas, a lawyer who is known for controversial comments on his Twitter account, has continued to show his support for the victims of a fatal traffic accident that involved […]
Couples in the region of Ulyanovsk told to take the day off in order to procreate, while athletes raise concerns over Russia’s homophobic policies BY JOSEPH CHARLTON, THE INDEPENDENT Russia […]
STORY SUMMARY Cardinal Beshara Rai said Saturday that Christians should act to stop the spread of fundamentalism and terrorism in the region. The town’s priest Father Nicolas Daoud presided over […]
SHIBLI ZAMAN ARABNEWS Published — Friday 13 September 2013 Many Jews and Christians view Islam from the outside, they find parallels to their own faiths that usually inspire a great deal of curiosity. These parallels are often doctrinal, sometimes regarding the biographies of Prophets shared between the three Abrahamic faiths […]
JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED Published — Sunday 15 September 2013 The Haj pilgrim transportation sector is in a dilemma. In a bid to provide employment to Saudi youth, the Ministry of […]
The Kingdom’s ongoing efforts to transform itself into a knowledge-based society have resulted in a tremendous rise in the number of institutions of higher studies focusing on science and research. While the number of universities and colleges in the Kingdom has shot up to 333, the private sector has also […]
The head of the opposition Free Syrian Army on Saturday rejected an agreement between the US and Russia to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons stock by mid-2014. “We cannot accept any part of this initiative,” Gen. Selim Idriss told reporters in Istanbul, saying it is a blow to the two-and-a-half-year uprising […]
The Muslim Times’ has added a question mark at the end of the title. Source: CNN There he goes again — Russian President Vladimir Putin, portraying himself as the world’s champion of peace and democracy. And, of course, doing it at America’s expense. This time, Putin’s PR machine managed to […]