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.

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 Muhmmad Bā-Sharāhīl. 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.

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Since 1996, the Yemen Observer Publishing House has diversified dramatically from a single bi-weekly newspaper to a five-armed media institution, publishing both in English and in Arabic: Yemen Today.Arabia Felix.Sports, and Spectrum are examples for the company’s fast and successful expansion.

Today, it has become the first English-speaking publishing house of the country, actively supporting Yemen in its socio-economic transition.

It also launched magazine Yemen Today is the most dynamic branch of the Publishing House, promoting investment and tourism in Yemen, a country which has promising potential in this

On 4 February 2006, the Yemen Observer published two articles on Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. The articles were accompanied by photographs showing 20-30,000 Yemeni women demonstrating against the cartoons, and empty shelves in a Sanaá supermarket with a sign informing customers that Danish products had been withdrawn. Also included were crossed-out thumbnail images of three of the Danish cartoons.

On 11 February 2006, former chief editor Mohammed Al-Asadi was arrested on charges of offending Islam. He was released on bail on 22 February 2006. In a trial that began on 23 February 2006, prosecution lawyers called for al-Asadi to be sentenced to death, for the paper to be closed and for all of its assets to be confiscated. Al-Asadi denied all charges and his defence team argued that the thumbnail images were accompanied by articles that condemned the cartoons and reported reactions from across the Islamic world. The prosecution claimed that the charges rested on the pictures alone, and that the accompanying articles should not be taken into account. After his release, Al-Asadi founded the Yemen Mirror

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