Yemen Times

Yemen Times

The "Yemen Times" is unified Yemen's first and most widely-read independent English-language newspaper. The paper is published twice-weekly (on Mondays and Thursdays) and has its own printing press, advertising associates and news service.

It was founded in 1991 by Professor Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, a leading economist and human-rights activist, who was also its editor and publisher until he died in a traffic accident in 1999. In the paper's mission statement, he wrote that: "We use the "Yemen Times" to make Yemen a good world citizen."

The "Yemen Times" has offices and correspondents all over the country. It supports press freedom, respect for human rights, political pluralism and democracy. It promotes non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other forms of civil-society organizations. At the economic front, it supports liberalization and open interaction with other nations. The paper and its editor were awarded the NPC's International Award for Freedom of the Press for 1995.

"Yemen Times" is run by the first female editor of such a newspaper in the Middle East. MS. Nadia Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf is the daughter of "Yemen Times" founder and has been editor-in-chief of the newspaper since March 2005. She has won [ [http://www.wan-press.org/tueni_award/articles.php?id=656 Tueni award] ] the first Gebran Tueni award [ [http://www.wan-press.org/article9391.html Tueni award] ] on 12 November 2006.

It is worth noting that the first national English-language Yemeni newspapers were published in 1960s in Aden. These were "Aden Chronicle" by Mohammed Ali Luqmān and "The Recorder" by Unicode|Muḥmmad Bā-Sharāḥīl. The publication of these and their sister Arabic-language newspapers "Fatāt ul-Jazīrah" and "Al-’Ayyām (see website: http://www.al-ayyam.info/)" ceased when the National Front for the Liberation of South Yemen (NLF) took power in the then People's Republic of South Yemen, (PRSY) (later known as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, PDRY) in 1967. The publication of "Al-’Ayyām" was resumed after the unification of the two sectors of Yemen in 1990. See [http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=966&p=report&a=1 Farūq Luqmān's interview in "Yemen Times"] .

References

External links

* [http://www.yementimes.com "Yemen Times" official website]

* For a book review on "Nushou' wa Tatawur Al-Sahafa fi Adan" (the burgeoning and development of journalism in Aden), 1937-1967, by Abdulrahman Khobara (175 pages, published by Al-Amal for Printing and Publishing), see [http://www.yementimes.com/98/iss37/culture.htm "Yemen Times"]


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