The ''Yemen Times'' was an independent English-language newspaper in

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and ...

. The paper was published twice weekly.

History and profile

''Yemen Times'' was founded in 1991 by

Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf Professor Abdulaziz Y. Al-Saqqaf (24 October 1954 in Taiz – 2 June 1999) was a Yemeni human-rights activist, economist, and journalist. Saqqaf established the ''Yemen Times'', unified Yemen's first and most widely read English language, Engli ...

, a leading

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and

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activist, who was also its

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and

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until he died in a traffic accident in 1999. In the paper's

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, he wrote that: "We use the ''Yemen Times'' to make Yemen a good world citizen." The paper is based in

Sana'a Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Gover ...

. As of 2007,

Nadia Al-Sakkaf Nadia Al-Sakkaf ( ar, نادية عبد العزيز السقاف; born 8 March 1977) is a former Yemeni Minister and politician. She was the editor in chief of the '' Yemen Times'' from 2005 until 2014, before becoming Yemen's first female Mi ...

was the

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of the daily. The paper has offices and correspondents all over the country. It supports

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, respect for human rights, political pluralism and

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. It promotes

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s (NGOs) and other forms of civil-society organizations. At the economic front, it supports

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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. In 2004, managing editor Iona Craig won the

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for her work with the paper. The paper also won the

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by the

International Press Institute International Press Institute (IPI) is a global organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of press freedom and the improvement of journalism practices. The institution was founded by 34 editors from 15 countries at Columbia University ...

in 2006. The first national English-language Yemeni newspapers were published in 1960s in

Aden Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 peopl ...

. These were ''

Aden Chronicle Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. ...

'' by Mohammed Ali Luqmān and '' The Recorder'' by Muhmmad Bā-Sharāhīl. The publication of these and their sister Arabic-language newspapers '' Fatāt ul-Jazīrah'' and '' Al-Ayyam'' 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 South Yemen ( ar, اليمن الجنوبي, al-Yaman al-Janubiyy), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (, ), also referred to as Democratic Yemen (, ) or Yemen (Aden) (, ), was a communist state that existed from 1967 to 19 ...

, PDRY) in 1967. The publication of ''Al-'Ayyam'' was resumed after the unification of the two sectors of Yemen in 1990. During the Yemeni Civil War in 2015, the newspaper was unable to continue issuing the printed version of the newspaper and deemed defunct. The website says that it "hopes to resume when conditions permit."

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* 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), se

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