The Noble Death of the Promised Messiah (as)
19th July 2020 Raziullah Noman, Canada The opponents of Ahmadiyyat spare no effort in their attempts to raise allegations against the Community and its founder, the Promised Messiah, Hazrat Mirza […]
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Rafiq A. Tschannen
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.
A view from Turkey: The purpose of the anti-Turkish campaign
SOURCE: DAILY SABAH BY BURHANETTIN DURAN The effective steps Turkey has taken to fill the deepening power vacuum in its region have hurt the interests of many foreign governments. Those […]
Jordan: Latest ‘honour killing’ sparks protest, fuels call for change
By Rana Husseini – Jul 21,2020 -JORDAN TIMES Citizens stage a sit-in near the Prime Ministry building in Amman to protest against the alleged killing of a Jordanian woman by […]
Jordan could ‘look positively’ on one-state solution if Palestinian-Israeli rights equal
Source: The Guardian Prime minister Omar Razzaz says Israel’s annexation plan would destabilise region By Michael Safi and Jassar al-Tahat in Amman Jordan’s prime minister has said his country could view […]
Shamima Begum’s successful appeal signals hope for other European Isis suspects held in Syrian camps
Despite dire conditions in northeast Syria’s camps, most countries, including the UK, have brought home only small numbers of their citizens, usually orphans or young children, says Letta Tayler 22 hours ago ABC […]
Nehru’s mother …
Did I tell you this one before? Once upon a time Jawaharlal Nehru was invited by his University in Oxford to deliver a speech. During his speech he said: ” […]
Rulers of Oil-Rich Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Hospitalized
By Reema Al Othman and Fiona MacDonald 20 July 2020, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Photographer: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Follow us @middleeast for more news on the region. King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi […]
Middle Eastern website describes Newcastle as a ‘remote tribal community’ worse than Yemen and says Geordies have a ‘well-documented penchant for violence’, as Saudi prince launches takeover of the city’s football team
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page A Middle Eastern website published an opinion piece criticising Newcastle The […]
Iraqi PM Kadhemi postpones Saudi visit after King Salman hospitalized
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi was supposed to lead a high-level ministerial delegation to the Kingdom. (AFP file photo) Short Url https://arab.news/5zb8m ‘Our wise leadership in coordination with our brothers […]
Egypt’s lawmakers to vote on deploying troops to Libya
Above, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi hosts dozens of tribal leaders loyal to Khalifa Haftar in Cairo in a photo released by the presidential spokesman on July 16, 2020. (AFP) Short Url […]
Rare daytime rocket attack hits Baghdad as Iran FM visits
By AFP – Jul 19,2020 – JORDAN TIMES A Russian-made Iraqi Mil Mi-17 flies over an oil field near Iraq’s southern port city of Basra on Wednesday (AFP photo) BAGHDAD […]
‘My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves’
19 July 2020 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Amid the global debate about race relations, colonialism and slavery, some of the Europeans and Americans who made their fortunes in trading human beings […]
Was the Russian Revolution Jewish?
A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN NOVEMBER 15, 2017 A BOLSHEVIK […]
Coronavirus Is Surging All Over Asia and the Pacific. Here’s What the Rest of the World Can Learn
Source: Time By Amy Gunia As much of the rest of the world struggled with the coronavirus pandemic, it looked like many places across Asia and the Pacific were successfully […]
Russia Denies Vaccine Hack; Hong Kong Cases Surge: Virus Update
Source: Bloomberg Hong Kong reported more than 100 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily total. Xinjiang’s capital city Urumqi will offer free tests in an effort to bring China’s latest […]
Tracing Ottoman architecture through works converted into churches
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL ARTS JUL 17, 2020 2:39 PM GMT+3 Mehmed Pasha Mosque, built by Mimar Sinan in Sofia and later turned into a church, is seen in this photo dated […]
Third of Bangladesh underwater as monsoon drenches region
Almost four million people have been hit by monsoon floods in South Asia, officials said Tuesday, with a third of Bangladesh already underwater from some of the heaviest rains […]
Salman Rushdie survived an actual fatwa. Yet he still thinks the Twitter crowd has gone too far
Jacqueline Maley Columnist and senior journalist July 12, 2020 — Salman Rushdie knows a thing or two about fatwas – on Valentine’s Day in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s […]
Don’t be misled by today’s unemployment figures – a hurricane of job losses is coming
We can reasonably expect the number of people in the UK out of work to rise to between three and four million – a far graver toll, at the upper […]
Shamima Begum: what the legal ruling about her return to the UK actually means
July 17, 20202 Author Devyani Prabhat Reader in Law, University of Bristol Disclosure statement Dr Devyani Prabhat received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council UK 2014-2017 for a project on British citizenship. Partners University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The […]