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.
The ObserverBenjamin Netanyahu Simon Tisdall The hard-right religious coalition is attacking civil liberties at home and becoming an unreliable partner abroad. Its leader is endangering western support for his country […]
The ObserverAlcohol More and more young people are choosing not to drink. But what would society be like without alcohol? And could a new alcohol substitute really give us a […]
Many of the women had been picking fruit ‘because there is nothing left to eat’ as long-running insurgency hits food supplies Agence France-Presse in Ouagadougou Mon 16 Jan 2023 Suspected […]
Opinion International Geneva Despite the Taliban’s recent decision to ban all women from working in NGOs, humanitarian aid must continue to flow to Afghanistan. This means aid agencies have to negotiate […]
13th January 2023 Farrukh Shabbir Lodhi, Missionary, Liberia The Humanity First Ahmadiyya Vocational College Liberia was established in 2011 and since its inception, more than 2,000 students have graduated. Humanity […]
WRITTEN BY DR. KATRINA LANTOS SWETT J.D., PH.D., PROFESSOR AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY| JANUARY 2023| AHMADIYYA, FEATURED, ISLAM Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett J.D., Ph.D., Professor at Tufts University and President of the Tom Lantos Foundation for […]
BY EKREM BUĞRA EKINCI NOV 30, 2021 – DAILY SABAH Roses are seen in the garden at the entrance of Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Shutterstock) Flowers are […]
SPECIAL Children unfurl a giant Syrian opposition flag during a rally in Idlib on Jan. 6, 2023 against a potential rapprochement between Turkiye and the Syrian regime. (AFP) Short Url Updated 15 January 2023 PAUL IDDON January 14, 2023 IRBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan: Fewer Syrians were killed in 2022 than in […]
Writer:Eric Mohamad January 13, 2023 History of Islamic Socialism in Indonesia, Idea Islamic socialism was an ideology of liberation for the weak at the beginning of the 20th century, as […]
bbc.com By Tom Bateman BBC News, Jerusalem Israeli forces blocked the UK’s Middle East minister from visiting the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem for 30 minutes before allowing him to […]
Life & Aging Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court has upheld a decision to reject the naturalisation of a French national guilty of driving at twice the speed limit.This content was published […]
YOSSI MEKELBERG January 14, 2023 In the two weeks since it came to power, the new Israeli government has been in a rush to execute an extremely busy agenda, as […]
Jan 11,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen The Euro-centric Western prosecutors of the Ukraine war care little or nothing for the peoples of this region, Africa and Asia who […]
Aug 27,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM — Why did the West’s Afghanistan policy fail so spectacularly? Was it doomed from the very beginning, and have any lessons been learned? More to the point, did the end of one 20-year war pave the way for another? One year […]
January 13th 2023 Africa Partner Press Releases His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has received the newly appointed Sierra Leonean Amir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Sierra Leone, Amir Musa Mewa Esq., emphasising that the country is proud of his blend of leadership. The President said, “as a […]
11/01/23 The Ahmadiyya Jamaat claimed that the minarets of its place of worship were demolished by the police in Wazirabad. The incident took place in Wazirabad, where the minarets of […]
13th January 2023 Ataul Fatir Tahir, London A group of local Ahmadis gather in the remote village of Raddoua in Niger’s Birnin Konni region, awaiting Ahmadi mu‘allims (teachers) who are trudging through […]
01/14/2023MASSIMO INTROVIGNEA+ | A- Nine were slaughtered in Burkina Faso, five have been charged for blasphemy, as a radical cleric incites Sunni Muslims to “pour petrol rather than water” on Ahmadi houses […]
The TTP made a comeback in Pakistan’s western border areas with an unprecedented surge in terrorist activities in 2022 Dr Sadia SulaimanJanuary 14, 2023 The TTP has made a comeback […]
Fasi ZakaJune 15, 2010 I have never really been vocal about rights for Ahmadis, even privately, but my compassion trigger is easily pulled if there are atrocities against Pakistani Hindus […]