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The paper's compound in Sanaa had been the subject of an attack by a dozen gunmen in February 2008. [3] Based in Aden, [1] it was the most widely read newspaper in southern Yemen, [citation needed] when it was one of seven newspapers closed in May 2009, [1] with the government accusing the paper of supporting separatism. [4]
Associated with Queen Arwa al-Sulayhi, and is one of the two iconic mosques of Jibla, Yemen. [7] Al-Hadi Mosque: City of Sa'dah: 897: Sufyan Mosque: Lahij: 1215: Dedicated to Sufyan ibn Abdullah al-Abini al-Yamani, a Muslim scholar who fought in the 1187 Battle of Hattin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem. [8] [9] Alansar Mosque: Sanaa? Al ...
Yemen TV channel: The 1st official channel started broadcasting in 1975 in North Yemen as local media, joined other Arab channels via Intelsat-59 in 1995 and later Nilesat. Yamania television channel: This channel was founded in 1980 in the South of Yemen as "Aden channel" and was renamed after the unity of Yemen .
Al-Hasabah was formerly a separate village as described by medieval writers al-Hamdani and al-Razi, but by the 1980s it had become a suburb of Sanaa. [ 31 ] The southwestern area on both sides of Haddah Road is a generally affluent area with relatively more reliable access to utilities like water and sanitation.
The caves of Al-Akhdam in Sanaa in 1942 Akhdam man or Khadem in Ta'izz See also: Slavery in Yemen The exact origins of the Akhdam are uncertain, with some believing that they are the descendants of African slaves or 6th-century soldiers from the Kingdom of Aksum .
Yemen's Houthi group freed more than 100 detainees in Sanaa on Sunday, calling the move a "unilateral humanitarian initiative" to pardon prisoners and return them to their families. "Most of them ...
Yemen Times was founded in 1991 by 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." [5] The paper is based in Sana'a. [6]
Al-Ayyam (Yemen) Al-Ayyam (Damascus), main Damascus daily until 1963; Other. The Days (Arabic: Al-Ayyam), the autobiography of Egyptian writer Taha Hussein; See also