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.
YOSSI MEKELBERG October 05, 2021 22:123823 Short Url https://arab.news/zd3aq No one genuinely believed that the US House of Representatives would refuse an emergency $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense […]
Published 7 hours ago A rare collection of drawings, sketches and paintings by champion boxer Muhammad Ali has sold at auction for nearly $1m (£733,760). Some 26 art works went under the hammer at Bonhams auction house in New York. One of the most anticipated works, Sting Like a Bee, […]
Editor’s Note. Google translate being used. Resisting the Demolition of the Mosque of Ahmadiyah Sintang. Attitude Statement of Religious Freedom Advocacy Network. Confidence Have not lost the trauma experienced by […]
Christian LangeMon., October 4, 2021 The Taliban are back in the saddle and, with them, the dreadful spectre of the harsh punishments meted out in their previous time in power: […]
Foreign affairs The debate on decolonising aid is pushing Switzerland to question how it is approaching development work. This content was published on October 5, 2021 – 09:00October 5, 2021 – […]
Trudy Rubin The Pandora Papers expose financial corruption in failing states, but shouldn’t distract from similar corruption in the United States. My first reaction when I read the secret details […]
MENA William Christou Lebanon 05 October, 2021 Lebanon topped the list for offshore companies named in the Pandora Papers, a revelation which many people found unsurprising. Prime Minister Najib Mikati […]
Jürgen Todenhöfer 8h · The family was in grave danger. The 34-year-old son had been abducted by IS terrorists in Kabul in March 2020 and brutally tortured for almost 17 months. He […]
WORLD There is another theory why Macron is pushing this bill. Ahead of elections in 2022, he is making a political calculation to win support of the far right and the left. French political framework is complicated because a portion of the left tends to be most strict about existence […]
Borzou Daragahi Tue, October 5, 2021 A leak of documents over the weekend showed Azerbaijan’s strongman, Ilham Aliyev, had secretly bought $540m (£400m) worth of property worldwide, including a central London home registered in the […]
Algeria’s official history has been rewritten based on hatred against France, Emmanuel Macron reportedly says Yusuf Ozcan |04.10.2021 PARIS Tensions between France and Algeria have continued to rise following […]
Strangely, what never gets traction is the complicity of Western powers in the enlargement of poppy plantations in the war-ravaged Afghanistan Sanjay Kapoor, OCT 04 2021 Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/mundra-port-drug-haul-and-the-us-link-to-afghan-heroin-1037108.html […]
September 28, 2021 Penulis David R. Stroup Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester David R. Stroup has received funding from the Fulbright Foundation. In […]
1st October 2021 Tahir Ahmad Machengo, Kenya Correspondent On 13 June 2021, Majlis Ansarullah Kenya had laid the foundation of a mosque and Ahmadiyya mission house in Taveta town, Kenya. […]
Little more than a month after the departure of American troops from Afghanistan, people in the country are struggling to pay for basic necessities as foreign cash dries up. Can […]
Editorial | Oct. 4, 2021 There is nothing about which Israelis are more in denial than nationalist crime by Jews, especially Jewish terrorism. In the Israeli mind, terrorists are always Arabs, […]
BY BASEL HAJ JASEM OP-ED OCT 04, 2021 12:05 AM GMT+3An Iranian army helicopter maneuvers during a military exercise in the northwest of the country, close to the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, Oct. 1, […]
BY ANADOLU AGENCY MOSCOW, RUSSIA ARTS OCT 03, 2021 12:51 PM GMT+3An official shows artifacts found in the ancient city of Phanagoria through a magnifying glass, Russia, Oct. 1, 2021. (AA Photo) Recent […]
CHRIS DOYLE October 04, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/6zrq4 It is increasingly the wild, wild West Bank, as lawless armed Israeli settler groups seize land while attacking Palestinian civilians, smashing property, […]
RAMZY BAROUDOctober 04, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/y4gzq There has been an unmistakable shift in US politics regarding Palestine and Israel — a change inspired by the way in which many […]