The Yemen Times is unified Yemen's first and most widely-read independent English-language newspaper. Yemen ( Arabic: اليَمَن al-Yaman officially the Republic of Yemen ( Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuuriyya English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. The paper is published twice-weekly (on Mondays and Thursdays) and has its own printing press, advertising associates and news service. A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth thereby transferring an image Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand
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. Professor Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf (1952&ndash1999 was a Yemeni Human-rights activist economist, and Journalist. An economist is an expert in the Social science of Economics. Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view In the paper's mission statement, he wrote that: "We use the Yemen Times to make Yemen a good world citizen. A mission statement is a brief statement of the purpose of a Company, Organization, or Group. "
The Yemen Times has offices and correspondents all over the country. It supports press freedom, respect for human rights, political pluralism and democracy. Freedom Constitutional or statutory protections pertaining to freedom of the press Pluralism is in the general sense the acknowledgment of diversity Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system 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. In general liberalization (or liberalisation) refers to a relaxation of previous government restrictions usually in areas of social or economic policy The paper and its editor were awarded the NPC's International Award for Freedom of the Press for 1995. The National Press Club is one of the world's leading professional organizations for journalists
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. A publication's editor in chief is its Primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies She has won [1] the first Gebran Tueni award [2] on 12 November 2006. Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
It is worth noting that the first national English-language Yemeni newspapers were published in 1960s in Aden. Aden (ˈeɪdən Arabic: عدن) is a city in Yemen, 170 kilometers east of Bab-el-Mandeb. These were Aden Chronicle by Mohammed Ali Luqmān and The Recorder by 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 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Democratic Yemen, South Yemen or Yemen (Aden was a Socialist republic in present-day southern and The publication of Al-’Ayyām was resumed after the unification of the two sectors of Yemen in 1990. See Farūq Luqmān's interview in Yemen Times.
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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), see Yemen Times
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