Yemen Times editor wins first Arab newspaper prize [Archives:2006/1006/Front Page]
December 11 2006
Larry Kilman
Nadia Al-Saqqaf, Editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times, has been awarded the 2006 Gebran Tueni Award, a new prize from the World Association of Newspapers to honour an editor or publisher from the Arab region.
BEIRUT, Dec. 10 – Ms Al-Saqqaf, who is the first woman ever to be appointed an editor in chief of an independent newspaper in Yemen, received the award Sunday during the opening ceremony of the “Media In Danger – Press Under Siege”” conference in Beirut
