Al Ayyam is a Yemeni daily newspaper published in Arabic.
The paper was shut down after South Yemen became independent under a Marxist regime in 1967.
Bashraheel's son Hisham resumed publication in 1990 after the unification of North and South Yemen.
[2] 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.