Ramadan bazaars go digital in Southeast Asia amid pandemic
Apr 28, 2020 – An online Ramadan bazaar trader wraps “Popiah” spring rolls at his home, during the movement control order due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), […]
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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.
PBS special depicts George W. Bush impatient with diplomacy after 9/11: ‘F— it, we’re going to war’
Searing footage jogs memories of crises that punctuated Texan’s presidency: the 9/11 attacks, Iraq invasion, Hurricane Katrina and the financial meltdown. […]
Despite a century’s progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918.
WASHINGTON (AP) — picture of Spanish Flue In the years between two lethal pandemics, one the misnamed Spanish flu, the other COVID-19, the world learned about viruses, cured various diseases, made effective vaccines, developed instant communications and created elaborate public-health networks. Yet here we are again, face-masked to […]
100 years after San Remo and the denial of Arab rights continues
s May 04,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES Z. ZOGBY It was appropriate that during the week in which we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference, Israelis […]
Will Lebanon’s collapse herald Hezbollah dominance or demise?
Baria Alamuddin May 03, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/nmjua Hezbollah and Iran appear more discomforted and defensive than at any time in recent memory, faced as they are with intensifying sanctions, […]
The sad story of UNITED NATIONS’s staff recruitment procedures. What you need to know when you apply for a UN position.
What I am going to say probably does not only refer to the United Nations, but many other large corporations both private and public. I am just giving an example […]
How to make sure Trump or anyone like him never, ever returns to power
Defanging the most toxic elements of the Trumpian right would benefit the world as well as the United States. But it’s up to his opponents to devise strategies to […]
Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still adrift
World Monday, 04 May 2020 By A.S.M Suza Uddin and Poppy McPherson COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Rohingya refugee Shahab Uddin thought the wooden trawler he boarded in February […]
Exclusive: almost a fifth of UK homes with children go hungry in lockdown
Source: The Guardian New data shows families go without as parents lose income, meal voucher scheme is beset with problems and food banks can’t cope By Nosheen Iqbal; @nosheeniqbal The […]
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman — a palace coup
Ben Hubbard’s book tells how the Saudi prince fuses autocracy with ‘modernisation’ Malise Ruthven April 30 2020 Barring accident or assassination, Mohammed bin Salman is destined to become king of […]
Avigan to be tried in mild Covid 19 cases in UK
UK coronavirus patients set to trial ‘promising’ Japanese-made drug Source: The Evening Standard By Elena Cruse Some 450 UK coronavirus patients will be recruited to take part in a new […]
Humanity First Germany continues to help in Kosovo
Source: Al Hakam By Besmir Yvejsi, Secretary Ishaat, Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Kosovo Kosovo is one of the countries affected by Covid-19 and the management of the situation is very good, thanks to […]
Pakistan minister calls for beheading of blasphemers
Ali Khan’s comments follow reports that Ahmadis will join a new minorities council Ali Muhammad Khan denied media reports that Ahmadis would be part of a new minorities council. (Photo […]
The Observer view on Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia
Observer editorial 3 hrs ago Dramatic falls in global oil prices are the result, primarily, of collapsing demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. Other factors predating the crisis are also […]
Surviving as an Ahmadi in Pakistan
Source: Pulitzer Center By Ayilah Chaudhary After a decade’s worth of service in Pakistan’s Armed Forces, Ali Akhtar Tariq, a 38-year-old aeronautical engineer, says he was demoted, threatened, and eventually […]
Early Muslim Contacts with China
The Review of Religions, April 1992 The following are some notes on early contacts of Muslims with China read by Dr. M. Ishaq Khalil at the Conference on Islam and […]
Chomsky: Maintaining sanctions on Iran amid coronavirus is ‘sheer sadism’
“The sanctions are illegitimate in the first place, and maintaining them during the pandemic is sheer sadism,” Chomsky told IRNA in an interview published on Saturday. Speaking from his […]
Netanyahu’s ‘war cabinet’ on its way to make annexation a new reality
Apr 28,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never had it so good. His one-time foes are lining up behind him like never […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says more than 30 countries have asked Japan for favipiravir (Avigan) to fight Covid 19
Japan, China Vie to Be Global Supplier of Unproven Coronavirus Drug Source: Wall Street Journal By Peter Landers and Miho Inada TOKYO—A drug called favipiravir has set off a diplomatic tug of war […]
In quest for vaccine, US makes ‘big bet’ on company with unproven technology
(CNN) It almost felt like an episode of “Shark Tank.” One by one, vaccine developers at a White House roundtable convened by President Donald Trump in early March pitched their […]