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.
Before Amy Pickering, PhD, left Bangladesh, she stuffed a bright green, 70-pound iron water pump into her suitcase, carefully bolstering a key piece of her research project, which aims to improve the health and save the lives of children in the Dhaka slums. Pickering and her colleagues at Stanford, including an […]
And so to Major Barbara at the Abbey. Every Western arms salesman I have met – usually at arms “fairs” in the Gulf – knows Andrew Undershaft, the grotesque, brilliant, intellectual weapons manufacturer in George Bernard Shaw’s 1907 play who abides by the faith of the armourer: “To give arms […]
By Camelia Pasandaran on 8:55 am August 12, 2013 JAKARTA GLOBE As millions of Muslims flocked to mosques across Indonesia on the morning of Idul Fitri last Thursday, a small […]
ISLAMABAD: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday sent out their separate messages on the occasion of “Minorities Day”. President Zardari stressed […]
KIM SENGUPTA Author Biography SUNDAY 11 AUGUST 2013 The holy month of Ramadan is over and both sides in Syria’s civil war are preparing for a new round of attrition. […]
Source:Worldpress.Com via Wasim Sr: I’d always been a bit sceptical about the Kalash people’s claim to be descended from the invading armies of Alexander the Great. The famous Macedonian leader passed through what is now northern Pakistan more than 2000 years ago. Nice idea, that some of his soldiers, had […]
August 09, 2013 Charles Recknagel Radio Free Europe (US sponsored) It’s no secret that Saudi Arabia wants to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But just how much Riyadh is willing to use its money to reach that goal can be surprising. One measure was a meeting on July 31 in […]
She is the youngest person to be called to the bar in 600 years and at just 18, Gabrielle Turnquest has already become used to questions about her age. By […]
It was some six months ago that Syrian rebel commanders met US intelligence officers in Jordan to discuss the status of the war and, the rebels hoped, to secure supplies of the sophisticated weapons they need to overthrow President Bashar Al Assad. But according to one of the commanders present […]
Source: NY Times: BELFAST — Fifty-six police officers and two civilians were injured in clashes in central Belfast in the latest flare-up in tensions between Northern Ireland’s Protestant and Catholic […]
Source: Hindustan Times: The Mars One project by NASA which aims to colonize Mars beginning in 2022 has reportedly revealed that more than one lakh people are eager to join the project in a bid to visit the red planet, but do not want to come back. More:
Source: Dawn.Com By Jan-e-Alam Khaki ONE of the enduring topics of Muslim sectarian polemics has been the hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) according to which he had predicted that his ummah would be divided into 73 sects, but only one would be saved. All Muslim sects happily claim […]
PTI NEW DELHI, AUGUST 11, 2013 | UPDATED 12:00 IST India’s two prominent Islamic helplines are discouraging young callers, especially women, from creating profiles and posting pictures on popular social […]
Source: Gulf News: “Conditions include that the Saudi man be at least 35 years old and less than 70 years old,” Faisal Ahmad Al Othman, the Eastern Province undersecretary, said. “A married Saudi man must prove medically that his wife has a medical condition, sterility or deformity and must present […]
Source: Morocco World News: By Youssef Sourgo Last Thursday another similar incident of discrimination and hostility toward Muslims emerged. Lined along the street next to El Farouq Mosque in Houston, a number of signs read, “No Muslim parking in the Westview Shopping Center. Your car will be towed.” More:
Source: Morocco World News: SYDNEY, Agust 10, 2013 (AFP) A candidate for Australia’s anti-immigration One Nation party dropped out of the election race Saturday after a blundering interview in which she referred to Islam as a country. Ms Stephanie Banister, 27, had been campaigning for just 48 hours when she […]
Source: TOI SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah Sunday accused some political parties of trying to exploit the situation in the wake of violence in Kishtwar. He vowed to take strict action against those fomenting communal trouble. “My earnest appeal to the people is: Please do not allow parties who are putting political interest above human […]
BELIEF Q9.4: WHAT WAS THE GUIDANCE OF KHILAFAT-E-AHMADIYYA ON PALESTINE? Source: http://cultgirlahmadiyya.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/belief-q94-what-was-guidance-of.html In this ‘spin off’ series of articles, in response to the question of whether mankind still needs divine guidance, we have presenting just a few examples of the divinely inspired guidance Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and his successors […]
August 10, 2013 – 15:42 By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) – Warplanes bombed a village in Syria’s north overnight in an apparent effort by President Bashar al-Assad to prevent rebels fighting him from advancing on communities in the stronghold region of his Alawite sect. Assad’s forces are on the defensive […]
by Matthew Allen, swissinfo.ch August 9, 2013 – 11:00 An ambitious multinational project to tap into the solar energy potential of North African and Middle Eastern deserts is facing a […]