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.
RELIGION_BELIEF AHMADIYYA HARRIS ZAFAR By Mark A. Kellner– The Washington Times – Thursday, September 9, 2021 Harris Zafar, an Ahmadiyya Muslim author and speaker who often sports a “Talk to a […]
Spike in Ahmadiyya persecution in Pakistan INTERFAITH Ahmadiyya mosque comes under attack by Muslim mob in Indonesia By Desk Blitz Published on September 14, 2021 Muslim mobs have routinely launched planned […]
Hysniyya Salman EXPERIENCING GOD 13th September 2021 Hysniyya Salman, Kafr Jammal, West Bank, Palestine (Translated from Arabic by Murtaza Ahmad) Some years ago, word spread in our village about our […]
A consortium led by Germany’s Siemens has been awarded a contract to build a high-speed rail network in the Middle East. The deal is good for Egypt, Germany and Europe […]
BY ALI ABO REZEG OP-ED SEP 14, 2021 12:05 AM GMT+3The general view of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Sept. 3, 2021. (Photo by Getty Images) Ilook back on […]
A general view ahead of an aid conference for Afghanistan at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 13, 2021. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/we5fa Western governments call on Taliban […]
1 / 2In this Aug. 7, 2017, file photo, Asad Zaman stands at the site of the bombing in the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn. (AP) 2 / 2Acting […]
Bennett and El-Sisi also discussed regional issues, including Iran’s influence in the Middle East and the crisis in Lebanon, diplomats and security sources said. (Egyptian presidency/ AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/g3449 […]
RAMZY BAROUD September 13, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/mmmuu A quarter of a century before Israel was established on the ruins of historic Palestine, Russian Jewish Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky argued […]
Only 2 percent of the 1.3 billion people who live in Africa have been vaccinated. Yet there are plenty of surplus doses in wealthy countries. Fair distribution has been little more than an illusion so far. By Marco Evers10.09.2021, 16.16 Uhr The battle against the coronavirus is proving to be a […]
The Taliban dilemma Maleeha Lodhi Published September 13, 2021 – DAWN.COM THERE was little surprise in the Taliban’s announcement of an all-male government composed almost entirely of its old guard and with top posts […]
(Reuters file) He gave several examples of Muslim countries where women have an active role in the society. Qatar’s foreign minister said on Monday the Gulf state has asked the […]
By Charlotte Greenfield 1/2 Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political chief of Afghanistan’s Taliban, in Tianjin, China July 28, 2021. Li Ran/Xinhua […]
By Andrew Korybko International August 31, 2021 – TEHRAN TIMES The U.S. panicked retreat from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s complete takeover of the country leaves many lessons to be learned […]
Direct Democracy Since 9/11, popular votes have increasingly been aimed against Islam, replacing the anti-Semitic and anti-communist slogans of the time before the terrorist attacks. Healthy democracies, however, have not […]
The ‘FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11’. Vice President Cheney says, ‘We’ve never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was […]
OIC Secretary-General Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen. (AFP file photo) Short Url https://arab.news/23uut Al-Othaimeen stressed the need to support OIC countries in achieving self-sufficiency in food production through mobilizing the organization’s […]
FOLLOW THE FOOD Why we still haven’t solved global food insecurity BY WILLIAM PARK The number of people living in food insecurity grows every year And the pandemic has made […]
The challenge on this anniversary is to understand how and why the West elected to promote al-Qaeda as the counterweight to the US – a 21st-century equivalent of the Soviet […]
11th September 2021 Jalees Ahmad, London In this day and age, the most influential tool to spread information is press and media. Day in and day out, a plethora of stories […]